Help me with my selection. I live in Helena, MT and my truck is used for pulling my fifth wheel and I like to take the truck when we travel as a family. This means going to the ski hill in the winter or just traveling around the state which is always over 200 mile round trip so lots of hwy miles. Now I do use the truck for around town some. The factory tires have about 38,000 miles and still have tread left but really stick in the snow. So I need a good hwy tire for pulling but want something better for snow. Looking at Goodyear wrangler silent armor. What about Nitto tires? or any others?

Thanks

 

I've had great luck with Michelin tires. Great on the road, decent in the snow (Nebraska) and very long life for a heavy truck. I have a dually too and got 80K out of the last set.

 

I run Toyo m55 235/80r17 on mine. I got them siped. Conditions here are similar to yours. Work good in the winter and wear ok in the summer.

 

I am looking at getting the bridgestone Duravis M700 HD for my dually

 

Thats what I am looking at for the next set too. Or...I may go with a set of winter snow and ice tires with studs...

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires....y&autoModClar=

I have two extra steel wheels...I may purchase 4 aluminum wheels and have a full set for in the summer.

Then I would look at the Durvais 500 as my ribbed summer tires and the generals as the winter dually's.

I ran a couple of sets of M55's on other trucks. They gave me well over 120K miles on each set. However, they were such a hard compound that they were a bit too slick on ice. Siping would have solved that...nobody in my area does this.

 

Just replaced my Toyo Open Country AT (235/85/17) with a set of Yokohama Geolander ATS (265/70/17) on my 06 dually. Only got 30K miles out of the toyos. Read a lot of good reviews on the yokohamas so thought I would give them a try. The yokohamas have a little more aggressive tread and 3 ply sidewalls.