New Tires...

OK, finally some more RV'ing related stuff to write about.

The time for new tires for Blue Bailout (our 2009 GMC 2500 Sierra truck) finally arrived.
About a month ago, when I did the 25,000 miles tire rotation ( I rotate tires every 5,000 miles) the technician, told me that this was probably the last rotation that I will get on those tires. He gave me a gauge that you can insert in the thread and see a green, yellow and red zone indicating acceptable level of wear. The tires were barely in orange...

The truck came equipped with Bridgestone tires:
V-Steel Rib 265 LT245/75R-16/E1 120S

These tires are rated for 50,000 miles, and I was getting close to the end at 25,000 miles!
I managed to squeeze another 4,000 miles, and decided to get new ones.

I decided to go for a set of Michelins LTX M/S rated for 65,000 miles.

Here are some intersing tire related tid-bits. Did you know that...

• If you put diferent size tires on your Allison Tranmision equiped truck...you void the warranty?
• Tires rated at high millage are harder.
• Harder tires "chunk-out" (get chunks of tread off) in rocky off road conitions when they spin-off (especally the ones on the back of the pick-up)
• To Avoud "chunking-out" use 4x4 so the back tires are less prone to spin-off

We will see if we get better life on these new Micheine tires. I was not impressed with Bridgestone.