Anyone priced them lately???? It's too "cold" to shoe horses today, so I'm surfing. Decided to check tires, even though I don't need them now. "Holy Burnt Rubber Batman"!!!!!! Wow, have the prices gone up in just 2 years!!!!:duh:AH64ID…………………You'd better buy your 19.5 rims and tires now based on how prices are skyrocketing!!!

I recently bought 5 new vision rims in 19.5 and got them for $180 each. :-)

 

Now I am looking for tires to put on them.

 

I have a quote for 5 Hankook DH101's in 245x70x19.5 in LRG that is less than $1400 mounted and balanced, but I am  hesitant on

pulling the trigger because I have seen mixed reviews on the mileage some people are getting with them on there truck.  Actually I

am not sure how much weight to put into online product reviews.  Haven't been able to find anyone that has personally run them.

So I   am still looking and hoping to find a good deal on tires but I know that is wishful thinking.

Nice score! Where did you get them? I got mine for just a hair more than that, with lug nuts and extra center caps for my hubs. I looked at the DH01 and the M608Z, from my research the M608Z is a better tire but 1400 is pretty good. Who has that price? That is less that I was quoted at several places for 4 of them.

Just for fun I stopped by the tire shop and got some quotes of tire prices...

 

LT285/75 R16 Cooper Stampede A/T $896.00

 

LT285/75 R16 Cooper Mud Claw M/T $1,064.00

 

LT285/70 R17 Nitto Crosstek $1,188.00 (50,000 mile tire)

The only problem I see with the high mileage tires is the compound is a bit harder than a good traction tire. In other words the better the traction the softer the compound and less miles. You would need to figure out what you really want to do with the truck and tire combo.

Nice score! Where did you get them? I got mine for just a hair more than that, with lug nuts and extra center caps for my hubs.I looked at the DH01 and the M608Z, from my research the M608Z is a better tire but 1400 is pretty good. Who has that price? That is less that I was quoted at several places for 4 of them.

Discount Tire Just built (in last 12 months)2 new stores here in Nampa and they gave me the great Vision price.  It was cheaper than every place I contacted about these rims.

 

Bruneel Tire gave me the best price for the DH01s, but I am getting mixed messages about the tire life for traction type tires.  When I look up reviews I find some good ones and some not so good ones for Hankooks, Toyos, Coopers, Continentals, Double Coin etc.

 

I am now thinking that maybe I'll just go with a rib type tire and keep my 17 inch Michlen LTX and run those in the winter when I am not pulling or carrying the camper and then use the 19.5s during the rest of the year.

The only problem I see with the high mileage tires is the compound is a bit harder than a good traction tire. In other words the better the traction the softer the compound and less miles. You would need to figure out what you really want to do with the truck and tire combo.

The issue I am referring to is the inconsistences I see in the tire life on various reviews for the same brand and model of tire.  As an example I have seen some reviews for the DH01s saying they only got 25 to 35k miles out of the tires and others that said 60 to 70k miles.  Same thing goes for other brands as well.

 

I was kind of thinking that if I go to a 14 or 16 ply truck tire that my tire mileage would be somewhere around 80k+ . Heck, I expect to get 70k+ from my 17inch Michlen LTX tires.

On a 8500 lb truck you need a hard compound traction tire, or they are only good for 20K miles. I found mixed reviews on the DH01, and they are more money from Schwab. I don't rcall any bad M608z reviews.