SuperBuickGuy
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I have duratracs on my Colorado - too soon to tell, but I like what I'm reading about them. As for other tires:
Bridgestones - by far and away the best all season tire I had my H3 (the first one) and they were still on the vehicle when I sold it with 70,000 miles.... and still had life left. They did awesome in the snow.
Then there were cheap-used-car-dealer tires on my H3 Alpha. The next tires were Toyo ATs. They rightly sucked offroad and on. Wore like iron, but replaced them for Toyo MTs.... which lasted 40k miles before I went to 35" Kumhos. I got a solid trade in on those MTs. The Kumhos struggled to last 20k miles, but they did pretty well offroad. Those were replaced with BFG KOs. I like the KOs on road and think they're probably a bit better then these duratracs in mud/snow. With that said, they are a wandering tire - they like following ruts but... and this is the big one... they were the first tire that claimed a 10% improvement in fuel economy and they delivered that... the Toyos - both AT and MT cost me about 13% fuel economy.
my favorite tires still are anything made by Kelly/Dunlop/Bridgestone (same company).... they last forever, my record on one set was 80,000 miles and I sold them for $400 to someone who drove them another 40,000 miles - and even then they still had legal tread but were starting to check... (on a 82 Chevy 3/4 ton diesel 4x4 truck... not the black one).
Bridgestones - by far and away the best all season tire I had my H3 (the first one) and they were still on the vehicle when I sold it with 70,000 miles.... and still had life left. They did awesome in the snow.
Then there were cheap-used-car-dealer tires on my H3 Alpha. The next tires were Toyo ATs. They rightly sucked offroad and on. Wore like iron, but replaced them for Toyo MTs.... which lasted 40k miles before I went to 35" Kumhos. I got a solid trade in on those MTs. The Kumhos struggled to last 20k miles, but they did pretty well offroad. Those were replaced with BFG KOs. I like the KOs on road and think they're probably a bit better then these duratracs in mud/snow. With that said, they are a wandering tire - they like following ruts but... and this is the big one... they were the first tire that claimed a 10% improvement in fuel economy and they delivered that... the Toyos - both AT and MT cost me about 13% fuel economy.
my favorite tires still are anything made by Kelly/Dunlop/Bridgestone (same company).... they last forever, my record on one set was 80,000 miles and I sold them for $400 to someone who drove them another 40,000 miles - and even then they still had legal tread but were starting to check... (on a 82 Chevy 3/4 ton diesel 4x4 truck... not the black one).
