By cartner on Wednesday, November 14, 2001 - 08:07 pm: Edit

OK< so I was cruisin' the Big W Super Walmart, and I was chillin in the ever popular automotive aisles as I frequently do when I hang out at Walmart, and I saw these tires with a pretty cool aggressive tread pattern that reminded me of certain Michelin tires, and I was wondering if anyone had had any experience with the Super Sport Radial HT....Has anyone? Are these good tires? In 245/75/16, they cost 118.96 at Walmart
and they seem pretty aggressive...


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By Robert Mann (Oldscout) on Wednesday, November 14, 2001 - 10:36 pm: Edit

My SS TruXus 235/85 were only a 100.00 ea. They are much more quite than my last set of BFG AT's.

By cartner on Wednesday, November 14, 2001 - 11:02 pm: Edit

is taht the same as the ones I was asking about? where did you get yours and what size are you running?

By PerroneFord on Wednesday, November 14, 2001 - 11:35 pm: Edit

A premium tire is about $20 more. Why not just go for a known good tire? And above that picture says:

"My SS TruXus 235/85 were only a 100.00 ea."

Seems like a fair deal on a nice tire. What do ya think?

-P

By gil on Thursday, November 15, 2001 - 08:52 am: Edit

futura enforcer M/Ts.. $379.00 for 4.. screamin deal..

By Daniel on Thursday, November 15, 2001 - 10:01 am: Edit

You can order Dunlop Rover RT's for about $112.00 a pop from tirerack.com.
I am buying locally, but only because I need them by this weekend.
The tire rack price is pretty tough to beat.

By Bill Bettridge (Billb) on Thursday, November 15, 2001 - 10:04 am: Edit

I paid $525 for 5 Dunlop RT 245/75/16 locally mounted/balanced, etc.......

By cartner on Thursday, November 15, 2001 - 11:28 am: Edit

Are the Dunlops as aggressive in the Muck as the BFG? I don't see what the BFD is for those, I mean, they seem like great tires, but $$$ esp. when your mostly broke.....How about them futuras?

By PerroneFord on Thursday, November 15, 2001 - 12:09 pm: Edit

BFG and other tires are expensive because good rubber costs money...

Anyone can make an aggressive tire, but making one that is reasonably quiet on the highway, lasts for 40k miles, is sticky enough to work in the rocks, doesn't slide all over the road in the rain, and can balance without needing 2 pounds of lead is the challenge.

Doesn't mean you need to pay $200 a tire (especially for the small tires you are talking about), but once you drop below $100-125, expect to give some things up. Can't you wait a few more weeks and get some good tires?

-P

By Ron on Thursday, November 15, 2001 - 01:22 pm: Edit

BFG and other tires are expensive because good rubber costs
money...

Don't you mean good advertising?

By PerroneFord on Thursday, November 15, 2001 - 01:35 pm: Edit

Hehehe.. well that too!

;)

By Robert Mann (Oldscout) on Thursday, November 15, 2001 - 01:35 pm: Edit

BFG is Michelin in disguise. BFG has not made tires in years. They sold the whole thing to Michelin, I think in the mid 80's

By Ron on Thursday, November 15, 2001 - 01:37 pm: Edit

The scout guy is correct (As usual)

Ron

By Daniel on Thursday, November 15, 2001 - 02:01 pm: Edit

Bill,
Where is local? I'm getting 5 for $730.00 with a free alignment, and no one can beat that here.

By Bill Bettridge (Billb) on Thursday, November 15, 2001 - 02:22 pm: Edit

Dan, I got mine from a Goodyear subsidiary called "Just Tires" - don't know if you have them in your area. This was over a year ago though.

Perrone,
All tire mfg's buy compound ingredients from essentially the same batch of manufacturers - pricing on materials such as carbon black are market dictated and within a very small margin, the same for every US based tire producer. All mfg's compound in-house and can add more fillers, but really there is very little material difference (valid for US manufacturers only - Asian mfg's throw in all kinds of fillers - clay, regrind, bugs, whatever)

Bill

By PerroneFord on Thursday, November 15, 2001 - 03:46 pm: Edit

When I said "rubber is expensive" I didn't mean literally RUBBER, I meant tires! Thanks for the explanation though. Too much listening to that damn NASCAR show on TV! Tires is rubber, until you get a flat and then you have to refer to your rubber as Tahres!

I'll get this southern stuff one day...

-P

By cartner on Thursday, November 15, 2001 - 05:34 pm: Edit

So whats the difference except in advert's? It seems the compounds are pretty similar, and the tread patterns are pretty similar.....sO?