A bit of toilet reading material.
I recently had a flat on my work truck and had to install a spare wheel and tire I picked up from a local junk yard, it still had a factory tire that had a build date of 10/05, being close to 13 years old when I got it, I new I was rolling the dice when I picked it up, but hey a old spare is better than having no spare at all. Well 3 weeks ago my 235 85 16 Bridgstone Duravis R250 picked up a large piece of metal on the road and my tire went flat quick, and my work truck being so heavy (00 f250 2wd 5.4 single cab with utility bed full of tools, 30gal air compressor, Lincoln Ranger r250 welder/generator weights in a whoping 11k) lop sided quick.
So I pulled over took my bottle jack and tool to lower my spare blah,blah,blah. When installing the spare I noticed how bad it's condition really was the entire tire had cracks, and I mean some decent deep cracks. I wasn't going to risk it, so I went to a local tire shop to drop off my truck tire to see if it was repearable (the guys were busy so he said "it ill take at least 2 hrs" I said "thats fine I'll pick it up later".) They didnt sell used tires and being a spare I didnt want to buy a new tire since it was just a spare, and would most likely have the same fate as the spare and dry rott.
So I went down the street at a local used tire shop and bought a used Yokohama Geolander AT G015 for my spare (235-80-17 10 ply) the thing was practicly new had a build date of 10/18 still had the some of the nipples on the thread, it did how ever had a puncture close to the edge of the tire maybe like an 1" but was still repairable and at $45 installed and balanced how can I go wrong.
So down the road I went, first impression is that its a well made tire, it doesn't bulge the sidewall like tires I've installed in the past, corrnering even though its just one tire on one side it handle the load really well. Went to a job site repair and there was a lot of loose sand, the tire grabbed traction quite well if I would of had that Duravis there forget it, I would of just spun.
It handled the wet road great as well, it didn't feel loose like with the Duravis R250, example, if I do a U-turn in wet payment and give it some good throttle the truck will break loose easy, with the Yoko it actually grabbed the payment and didn't want to let loose, granted this are two very different tires and just 1 tire but the difference was night and day with just one tire, still on my truck as well, I'll wear it out a bit before putting it back to its location, making sure those $45 were well spent.
The Yoko's caught my attention and might be my new tire purchase on my personal truck. Currently Im running Mastercrafts ATX on my personal truck and havent had problems with them, but at about 30k I had 1 tire covered warranty due to it growing a freaking tumor on the side wall and it wasn't a pot hole or anything it apperead there from one day to the next, and one of the other tires looks like the sidewall is starting to grow a tumor as well, so no more MC for me.
As I mentioned it's only one tire, it was used with a puncture close to the edge and not enough miles to see if it's worth buying a new set for my personal truck but from some reviews on the net it yielded me to get a new set for my personal truck.
(Oh if you are wondering why I have a 17" spare and my truck uses 16" wheels it's because I wanted a stock era aluminum wheel, and this one was as close to appearance I could find.)
I recently had a flat on my work truck and had to install a spare wheel and tire I picked up from a local junk yard, it still had a factory tire that had a build date of 10/05, being close to 13 years old when I got it, I new I was rolling the dice when I picked it up, but hey a old spare is better than having no spare at all. Well 3 weeks ago my 235 85 16 Bridgstone Duravis R250 picked up a large piece of metal on the road and my tire went flat quick, and my work truck being so heavy (00 f250 2wd 5.4 single cab with utility bed full of tools, 30gal air compressor, Lincoln Ranger r250 welder/generator weights in a whoping 11k) lop sided quick.
So I pulled over took my bottle jack and tool to lower my spare blah,blah,blah. When installing the spare I noticed how bad it's condition really was the entire tire had cracks, and I mean some decent deep cracks. I wasn't going to risk it, so I went to a local tire shop to drop off my truck tire to see if it was repearable (the guys were busy so he said "it ill take at least 2 hrs" I said "thats fine I'll pick it up later".) They didnt sell used tires and being a spare I didnt want to buy a new tire since it was just a spare, and would most likely have the same fate as the spare and dry rott.
So I went down the street at a local used tire shop and bought a used Yokohama Geolander AT G015 for my spare (235-80-17 10 ply) the thing was practicly new had a build date of 10/18 still had the some of the nipples on the thread, it did how ever had a puncture close to the edge of the tire maybe like an 1" but was still repairable and at $45 installed and balanced how can I go wrong.
So down the road I went, first impression is that its a well made tire, it doesn't bulge the sidewall like tires I've installed in the past, corrnering even though its just one tire on one side it handle the load really well. Went to a job site repair and there was a lot of loose sand, the tire grabbed traction quite well if I would of had that Duravis there forget it, I would of just spun.
It handled the wet road great as well, it didn't feel loose like with the Duravis R250, example, if I do a U-turn in wet payment and give it some good throttle the truck will break loose easy, with the Yoko it actually grabbed the payment and didn't want to let loose, granted this are two very different tires and just 1 tire but the difference was night and day with just one tire, still on my truck as well, I'll wear it out a bit before putting it back to its location, making sure those $45 were well spent.
The Yoko's caught my attention and might be my new tire purchase on my personal truck. Currently Im running Mastercrafts ATX on my personal truck and havent had problems with them, but at about 30k I had 1 tire covered warranty due to it growing a freaking tumor on the side wall and it wasn't a pot hole or anything it apperead there from one day to the next, and one of the other tires looks like the sidewall is starting to grow a tumor as well, so no more MC for me.
As I mentioned it's only one tire, it was used with a puncture close to the edge and not enough miles to see if it's worth buying a new set for my personal truck but from some reviews on the net it yielded me to get a new set for my personal truck.
(Oh if you are wondering why I have a 17" spare and my truck uses 16" wheels it's because I wanted a stock era aluminum wheel, and this one was as close to appearance I could find.)
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