It took almost slamming into a tree in the rain to get me off of my lazy butt to go and get new tires. I bought a set of 315/75/16 Trailcutter's. They are made by Jetzon and come highly recommended by my buddy AggiePhil and the guy at Tire Works in Austin. So far I'm quite happy with them. They ride a LOT smoother than my nittos ever did and are fairly quiet on the highway given their tread design. The only time I can hear them hum is when I turn the radio off and let off the pedal and just coast and even then it's just a faint hum. I've put a little over a 100 highway miles on them today and they worked great. They weren't squirrely or anything. Not to bad of a price either.

New tire

Old tires

Another new tire pic

Video to follow.

 

Cool Keep up upto speed on how you like them.
Hey did you go out an KILL the old ones prior to removing them? LOL

 

Like I said, video to follow. The only reason I didn't do it yesterday is because I ran out of time and I didn't have enough time to do it today. Don't worry though. I'm pretty open this weekend.

 

I like those!! I wonder if I can find them in Missouri?? Are they cheaper than Nitto's and all the other big named tires?? Let me know cause I'm not too far off from needing tires.

-Ryan

 

Glad to see you got some new shoes for the old girl Blue. I can't wait to see the video and here how the tranny is holding up.

 

I paid $720 mounted and balanced which comes out to $180/tire. That's in a 315/75/16 though. Go online to http://www.jetzontire.com/ and you should be able to find a dealer near you.

No comments from the peanut gallery about my tranny.

 

Are those the A/T's, M/T's or R/T's ???

 

R/T's and you can get them here i think www.nebraskstire.com there under hot deals in the LT section for 492.00 for 4 again i think this is till they run out

 

They are the R/T's.

 

I had a shot at set of those when i bought my 285's , i could get them at cost , someone had ordered them in , then not taken them, if i had rims that they would go on , and clearance , i would have bought them.

 

Looks good! Always nice to have new tires I am very unpatiently awaiting the video.

Eric

 

My roommate has those on his Duramax. Seem to be a good tire. Good traction and good price.

 

Blue, did they have any trouble getting them balanced?

 

No problems to report here Doc. They ride smooth as glass. I do however have the centramatic balancers coming in tomorrow or the next day and I will be installing those and removing the wheel weights from the tires. But for the 100 miles that I drove home today they rode nice and smooth. I'll let you know how much weight was required to balance them later.

 

Hey Blue, how many miles did you get out of the Nitto's?