I had Kenda paddle tires on a quad I built out of a CBR600.. The paddles were quite stiff and could still be ran on dirt.. I loved those tires. A lot of people tried to talk trash about them at the dunes for whatever reason.. But they worked fine on the sand, and worked even better on the dirt.. So I had no complaints. Super cheap too
On my 2002 7.3L diesel, 6spd manual 4x4.. I had 8 ply tires that were E rated.. That was 8 ply PLUS the side wall plies though.. I don't know when we started counting sidewall plies in our tire ratings.. but I never have.. but also, these days-- the letter is about the "ply RATING", not how many actual plies are in it. That's why you can still have a higher rated tires that may have lower plies than normal-- just depending on what materials they are made of.
VERY informative video! I appreciate the explanation about the balancing beads. In my Jeep club, many have large aggressive tires that are impossible to balance with weights and beads work every time
I used Dynabeeds on my Harley. I hated them, at low speed it caused vibration from being out of ballance. HD corp was not happy and made the dealer rebalance them without the need a for free and required them to stop selling them. On a trailer - no problem, mud on the tires - should work. I just wanted to put that out there, they are not for light weight cars and motorcycles.
There's too many factors coming into play to get a mileage warranty. I always told my customers it was expected service life, not a warranty, and was simply a way of comparing one tire to another when deciding what to buy.
They are a great tire, I have them on my 1978 F250 work great and we're a great price in my area. They look good as well, You should be happy with them.
Great video and super content! You keep hitting all the right buttons with your educational approach to what everyone needs to know to navigate life’s daily challenges better! 👍👍. I’m a Continental tire guy for my F350. They are what came on it and I’ve had the best service out of them. Mine are loaded rated @ 121 and speed rated at an “S”. To add to the conversations on things that really affect tire wear……. The front linkage components wearing, such as tie rod ends, shocks, U-joints at front axle ends on 4WD trucks and steering boxes on older trucks like I drive. I’m about to cross over the 600,000 mile threshold and it’s my daily driver, toter, hauler etc. I’m just totally all over preventative Maintence. I will never have another truck because of the $100,000 dollar price tags these days and would rather take extremely good care of this one and save $$$$. Again PERFECT content!! 🔥🔥👍👍
The biggest problem I have is knowing proper inflation. Do you go by the vehicle manufacturer or do you go by what the tire actually says, or do you split the difference? I have found neither matches.
These tires say 80 and my vehicle says 65 I think without it loaded Trailer 65 is probably good but if you’re way down, I would go 80. Not really an expert but I had them set them at 75
You have to go off of weight,…believe it or not. This is speaking from experience. If you have an HD pickup,…the fronts should be inflated to max. I set my rears according to how much contact the tire is actually making with the ground. By doing that, you inflate the rears to max, and then drive a half mile or so, and then stop and check to see how much is touching the ground by looking at the tread. You’ll notice that the tread will “appear” to have two colors. The lighter color is simply the dirt from the road, and the darker is the tire itself,…which is usually toward the shoulders. You’ll want to lower the pressure until you get about half of the shoulder lugs in contact with the road. I’ve been doing it that way for almost 25 years,…and I get good even wear on my tires. Don’t ever go by the door jam sticker. You’ll never get max life from your tires. I’ve even done that on my duallies over the years. Right now, the tires on my ‘05 Chevy 3500, I run 265/75-16 HTs, and are set at 80 fronts, and 65 rears. My ‘06 Dodge 2500 is set at 80F/70R. I rotate the tires at every oil change at 5k miles.
Jim Harrison of Harrison tire in Gainesville ga gave me free kubota tires on rims for free they were brand new. It was for a school project though. He bought 500 tires from kubota when they changed tire sizes on compact tractos. He has sold all but 30 tires so he made his money back so he gave me two of them for free for my manure spreader
Good morning Brock. The only tires that I'll buy are Good Years. I'm on my second set of Good Year Dura Tracs on my Tundra. It has 18" wheels and I paid $350. each. I can usually get 75 to 80 thousand miles out of them. They're not noisy but you could climb the side of the Empire State Building in a blizzard with them. The cupping on the front tires in my experience is normal on a 4 wd. vehicle but you can minimize it by keeping the tires rotated regularly. 5000 miles is recommended but since I'm older now and get it done at the dealer I let it go to 10,000 miles. I don't really know anything about Hercules tires so keep us informed about how they work for you. God bless and have a wonderful day. 👍👍🙂
Howdy Brock! My best friend since 4th grade is an engineer and worked in Cooper Tires' R & D department for several years... mainly designing machines that make tires. Not that it is germane to the conversation... just thought it was a cool connection to your tires lol. I'm going through this with my F450. Hoodoggy... I'm not used to buying 6 tires at a time. Little pricey! Thanks for sharing 🤠
The torque sticks use a twisting motion to make the stop tighting. If you read the instructions on a set of torque sticks they tell you only use a air impact set to torque 250lbs. I tried these on a m18 milwaukee ½" drive impact rated torque 400lbs. A 75 foot pound rated stick was torquing to 100 foot pounds. They are good to get you really close if everything is setup right. I think they are a good idea and help people to not over tight nuts and bolts. I personally have a thing about quality name brand tires (Michelin, nitto or toyo) on my 2500 and 3500 that i haul heavy with or drive long distances with. I gotten 75k out of Michelins. I also try not buy china made tires. We all get stuck on trailer tires with china made tires and they don't last for me anyway. Now my beater drive to work truck I'll run cheap tires on because they rot off before i wear them out. I haven't tried balance beads in tires. I have had friends that have and talked about them both good and bad. The biggest complaint they had is driving under 30mph they don't really work (this is what they are telling me). I would like to know what you think about balance beads.
Tires are crazy now. In 2019 I bought 5 Nitto Ridge Grappler 38x13.50r20 tires for under $1800 installed. In 2022 those same 5 tires were $2864…with military discount 😳
Just put on a new set of shoes on my 2021 Sierra AT4 1500. The factory Duratrac mud tires at 29k miles got so noisy it drove me crazy. The tires I chose only come 10 ply rated so they are about twice as heavy, but boy are they quiet. Still had 40% or better on the old ones...Choices we make I guess.
Hey Brock, loved the video. It was really good and informative. I have some questions. I’m searching the Hercules website for ram 2500 trucks (which I plan to acquire soon); it keeps saying they don’t make it no matter what configuration I put in Hercules. What model tire did you get exactly? My second question is I love those ceramic beads from M-Pact. They used to have a similar product for Harleys back of the day. The problem was, though the beads would first polish and wear through the actual tire hub. I’m pretty sure those bees though were metal. Do they have any information on what effect they have on tire hubs? Anyway, this is a really great video and Colleen and I really enjoyed it.
Tires are so much better than even 10 years ago! I use tire rack and consumer reports for reviews. And buy from tire rack. When the tire manufacturer has a sale, almost always. I have winter and summer tires on most of my vehicles, truck for sure. Winter tires let me pull out a couple random drivers every winter. None of whom have winter tires! I also have a brother in law with a tie mounting thing, so I but him some beer, then take them to Walmart to balance. Separate wheels for each set, so I almost never have to mount/balance. Edit: range d and e are rarely needed unless towing regularly at max tongue weight. And range c is much smoother.
how does the '45 day guarantee' actually work ? I'm looking at a different brand of tires who claims to have a 30 day happy guarantee . If I'm not happy with the tires and take them back, what do they do with the tires - sell them at a slightly discounted price to somebody else or do they offer them to me at a cheaper price, or?
Hi think I’ve responded to you about this a couple times. Possible it was somebody else my son is a senior in high school and he’s driving the jeep to school. When graduates we are going to jump back on it. I do have the paint for the exterior and the underside.
Torque sticks have to be used properly. The gun has to be slightly set higher than the torque stick rating. Too low and you can have loose lug nuts. To high and you can still over tighten the lug nut. ( the stick acts like a spring )
458 seems awfully high. I know I've always paid about $350 per nice 20" tire for my truck but the key is to buy through a dealer that has huge buying power and better discounts plus it helps if you know the owner or salesman.
Driving a heavy duty truck, you aren't gonna get 40-60k out of a set of tires, its a heavy truck, its built to work, tow, haul, etc. you have a lot of weight riding on those tires...so NEVER expect to get the tread life that is advertised. You need a set of tires rated for the weight of the truck, plus whatever you might be towing, so putting passenger car tires on a heavy duty truck is a poor idea, not to mention makes the truck pretty useless for its actual purpose...you overload the tires just about immediately in just truck weight LOL. I have 10 ply tires on my HD truck, they are a light all terrain tire, so they are a bit more aggressive than a set of all season tires, but not very aggressive to get the obnoxious highway noise you'll get with the mud terrain type tires that so many people think they need.
You are running the wrong tires, not keeping correct air pressure or rotating them when they need it. I've gotten 60k, 70k and 75k out of a set of tires on 2500 and 3500 diesel engine trucks. I know people that haul heavy loaded trailers 2 or 3 times a week and are 60k to 70k out of a set of tires. It all comes down to a quality tire, air pressure, front end inline, rotating regularly and not doing burn out.
@benjaminhale1454 so I went into my favorite Tire Shop last time and told them that the tires that came on the truck only went 28,000 miles. I said I need a tire that’s actually going to last. They recommended to me what they thought was the best option. I got 47,000 out of them. That is with waiting to change them until they were actually bald as you saw in the video.
3/39/24..hey Brock, loved the Tire info video 2day..wow, $400+ p tire+ those micro ceramic little beads as ballance (?) + install..=$500/tire x 4 ( spare?) = $2000. ...man-o-man, good thing YT $ can help with all that. Your dealer friend (Mr. HAMMER) was very knowledgeable & seemed to be a very good 'Go-To-Guy'. A+ video Brock!✅️🔧⚙️🔩💪👍🌞
I have ran Hercules tires for 20 years… my neighbors had a tire shop and I bought through them. AT, road tires, Mud Tires… all were great.
Going to the tire shops is what convinced me to pull the trigger on a tire machine and balancer for my home garage.
Check out Kenda tires. Inexpensive but excellent, and all we run any more.
I had Kenda paddle tires on a quad I built out of a CBR600.. The paddles were quite stiff and could still be ran on dirt.. I loved those tires. A lot of people tried to talk trash about them at the dunes for whatever reason.. But they worked fine on the sand, and worked even better on the dirt.. So I had no complaints. Super cheap too
On my 2002 7.3L diesel, 6spd manual 4x4.. I had 8 ply tires that were E rated.. That was 8 ply PLUS the side wall plies though.. I don't know when we started counting sidewall plies in our tire ratings.. but I never have.. but also, these days-- the letter is about the "ply RATING", not how many actual plies are in it. That's why you can still have a higher rated tires that may have lower plies than normal-- just depending on what materials they are made of.
I ran a tire shop for Sears from 1971 to 1991. Been away from tires for a while. The industry has really changed a lot.
VERY informative video! I appreciate the explanation about the balancing beads. In my Jeep club, many have large aggressive tires that are impossible to balance with weights and beads work every time
Very informative and enjoyable video Brock. I will definitely use the knowledge gained from this video when I need tires for my truck. Thanks
I put Hercules tires on my camper. Basically semi tires. No complaints after 2 years
I used Dynabeeds on my Harley. I hated them, at low speed it caused vibration from being out of ballance. HD corp was not happy and made the dealer rebalance them without the need a for free and required them to stop selling them.
On a trailer - no problem, mud on the tires - should work. I just wanted to put that out there, they are not for light weight cars and motorcycles.
Good tire review. Tires are basic to every piece of rolling equipment.
Brock, Thanks for the video. Lots if great information about things to look for on tires.
Should have discussed proper tire inflation pressure.
OUTSTANDING VIDEO !!!
Possibly your best ever. Very informative and entertaining.
Great job
Thanks
Very informative Brock! thanks for the video going to use this information to check my tires, and maybe they'll last me longer
There's too many factors coming into play to get a mileage warranty. I always told my customers it was expected service life, not a warranty, and was simply a way of comparing one tire to another when deciding what to buy.
That was a very interesting video. Lots of good information. Thanks, Brock!
They are a great tire, I have them on my 1978 F250 work great and we're a great price in my area. They look good as well, You should be happy with them.
Great video and super content! You keep hitting all the right buttons with your educational approach to what everyone needs to know to navigate life’s daily challenges better! 👍👍. I’m a Continental tire guy for my F350. They are what came on it and I’ve had the best service out of them. Mine are loaded rated @ 121 and speed rated at an “S”. To add to the conversations on things that really affect tire wear……. The front linkage components wearing, such as tie rod ends, shocks, U-joints at front axle ends on 4WD trucks and steering boxes on older trucks like I drive. I’m about to cross over the 600,000 mile threshold and it’s my daily driver, toter, hauler etc. I’m just totally all over preventative Maintence. I will never have another truck because of the $100,000 dollar price tags these days and would rather take extremely good care of this one and save $$$$. Again PERFECT content!! 🔥🔥👍👍
The biggest problem I have is knowing proper inflation. Do you go by the vehicle manufacturer or do you go by what the tire actually says, or do you split the difference? I have found neither matches.
These tires say 80 and my vehicle says 65
I think without it loaded Trailer 65 is probably good but if you’re way down, I would go 80.
Not really an expert but I had them set them at 75
You have to go off of weight,…believe it or not. This is speaking from experience. If you have an HD pickup,…the fronts should be inflated to max. I set my rears according to how much contact the tire is actually making with the ground. By doing that, you inflate the rears to max, and then drive a half mile or so, and then stop and check to see how much is touching the ground by looking at the tread. You’ll notice that the tread will “appear” to have two colors. The lighter color is simply the dirt from the road, and the darker is the tire itself,…which is usually toward the shoulders. You’ll want to lower the pressure until you get about half of the shoulder lugs in contact with the road. I’ve been doing it that way for almost 25 years,…and I get good even wear on my tires. Don’t ever go by the door jam sticker. You’ll never get max life from your tires. I’ve even done that on my duallies over the years. Right now, the tires on my ‘05 Chevy 3500, I run 265/75-16 HTs, and are set at 80 fronts, and 65 rears. My ‘06 Dodge 2500 is set at 80F/70R. I rotate the tires at every oil change at 5k miles.
Hello Brock. Excellent information. Thanks.
I may be due for some new tires on my pickup, I bought these Firestone Destinations in 2013. 😲
Good info . Thanks Brock .
Thanks guys, good information 👍👍
Jim Harrison of Harrison tire in Gainesville ga gave me free kubota tires on rims for free they were brand new. It was for a school project though. He bought 500 tires from kubota when they changed tire sizes on compact tractos. He has sold all but 30 tires so he made his money back so he gave me two of them for free for my manure spreader
Nice
Good morning Brock. The only tires that I'll buy are Good Years. I'm on my second set of Good Year Dura Tracs on my Tundra. It has 18" wheels and I paid $350. each. I can usually get 75 to 80 thousand miles out of them. They're not noisy but you could climb the side of the Empire State Building in a blizzard with them. The cupping on the front tires in my experience is normal on a 4 wd. vehicle but you can minimize it by keeping the tires rotated regularly. 5000 miles is recommended but since I'm older now and get it done at the dealer I let it go to 10,000 miles. I don't really know anything about Hercules tires so keep us informed about how they work for you. God bless and have a wonderful day. 👍👍🙂
Great video God bless
Great video good information. Keep up the good work.
Thanks
Howdy Brock! My best friend since 4th grade is an engineer and worked in Cooper Tires' R & D department for several years... mainly designing machines that make tires. Not that it is germane to the conversation... just thought it was a cool connection to your tires lol. I'm going through this with my F450. Hoodoggy... I'm not used to buying 6 tires at a time. Little pricey! Thanks for sharing 🤠
The torque sticks use a twisting motion to make the stop tighting. If you read the instructions on a set of torque sticks they tell you only use a air impact set to torque 250lbs. I tried these on a m18 milwaukee ½" drive impact rated torque 400lbs. A 75 foot pound rated stick was torquing to 100 foot pounds. They are good to get you really close if everything is setup right. I think they are a good idea and help people to not over tight nuts and bolts.
I personally have a thing about quality name brand tires (Michelin, nitto or toyo) on my 2500 and 3500 that i haul heavy with or drive long distances with. I gotten 75k out of Michelins. I also try not buy china made tires. We all get stuck on trailer tires with china made tires and they don't last for me anyway. Now my beater drive to work truck I'll run cheap tires on because they rot off before i wear them out.
I haven't tried balance beads in tires. I have had friends that have and talked about them both good and bad. The biggest complaint they had is driving under 30mph they don't really work (this is what they are telling me). I would like to know what you think about balance beads.
Tires are crazy now. In 2019 I bought 5 Nitto Ridge Grappler 38x13.50r20 tires for under $1800 installed. In 2022 those same 5 tires were $2864…with military discount 😳
Great info
Just put on a new set of shoes on my 2021 Sierra AT4 1500. The factory Duratrac mud tires at 29k miles got so noisy it drove me crazy. The tires I chose only come 10 ply rated so they are about twice as heavy, but boy are they quiet. Still had 40% or better on the old ones...Choices we make I guess.
What is the update on how these tires are holding up for you? I am in the market for the same size tires. Any let downs?
Hey Brock, loved the video. It was really good and informative. I have some questions. I’m searching the Hercules website for ram 2500 trucks (which I plan to acquire soon); it keeps saying they don’t make it no matter what configuration I put in Hercules. What model tire did you get exactly? My second question is I love those ceramic beads from M-Pact. They used to have a similar product for Harleys back of the day. The problem was, though the beads would first polish and wear through the actual tire hub. I’m pretty sure those bees though were metal. Do they have any information on what effect they have on tire hubs? Anyway, this is a really great video and Colleen and I really enjoyed it.
The rear axle rating of your truck is limited by the OEM tires and not the actual axle rating. The AAM 11.5 is rated for around 10K lbs.
Tires are so much better than even 10 years ago!
I use tire rack and consumer reports for reviews. And buy from tire rack. When the tire manufacturer has a sale, almost always.
I have winter and summer tires on most of my vehicles, truck for sure. Winter tires let me pull out a couple random drivers every winter. None of whom have winter tires!
I also have a brother in law with a tie mounting thing, so I but him some beer, then take them to Walmart to balance.
Separate wheels for each set, so I almost never have to mount/balance.
Edit: range d and e are rarely needed unless towing regularly at max tongue weight. And range c is much smoother.
how does the '45 day guarantee' actually work ? I'm looking at a different brand of tires who claims to have a 30 day happy guarantee . If I'm not happy with the tires and take them back, what do they do with the tires - sell them at a slightly discounted price to somebody else or do they offer them to me at a cheaper price, or?
I’ve had horrible experiences with Hercules tires at my repair shop.
Hey Brock I want you everyday when are you going to get back to the Jeep overall or did you all finish it yet and I missed it can I get a response
Hi think I’ve responded to you about this a couple times. Possible it was somebody else
my son is a senior in high school and he’s driving the jeep to school.
When graduates we are going to jump back on it. I do have the paint for the exterior and the underside.
Wishing you luck, but I've never had good luck with Cooper tires. Never ever.
But to be fair i never had their Hercules on my vehicles.
Busy day 🤪
Mornin' Todd
@@Cowboy_Steve morning
I haven't even watched the whole video yet , cuz I'm a slacker 🤪
This was a very good video sorry you need 20s
Torque sticks have to be used properly. The gun has to be slightly set higher than the torque stick rating. Too low and you can have loose lug nuts. To high and you can still over tighten the lug nut. ( the stick acts like a spring )
458 seems awfully high. I know I've always paid about $350 per nice 20" tire for my truck but the key is to buy through a dealer that has huge buying power and better discounts plus it helps if you know the owner or salesman.
Show me the "45 day returned" tires first, at the discounted price😊😊
You keep mispronouncing dealership. It's stealership
Buying tires from a "dealer" is foolish..
Driving a heavy duty truck, you aren't gonna get 40-60k out of a set of tires, its a heavy truck, its built to work, tow, haul, etc. you have a lot of weight riding on those tires...so NEVER expect to get the tread life that is advertised. You need a set of tires rated for the weight of the truck, plus whatever you might be towing, so putting passenger car tires on a heavy duty truck is a poor idea, not to mention makes the truck pretty useless for its actual purpose...you overload the tires just about immediately in just truck weight LOL. I have 10 ply tires on my HD truck, they are a light all terrain tire, so they are a bit more aggressive than a set of all season tires, but not very aggressive to get the obnoxious highway noise you'll get with the mud terrain type tires that so many people think they need.
You are running the wrong tires, not keeping correct air pressure or rotating them when they need it. I've gotten 60k, 70k and 75k out of a set of tires on 2500 and 3500 diesel engine trucks. I know people that haul heavy loaded trailers 2 or 3 times a week and are 60k to 70k out of a set of tires.
It all comes down to a quality tire, air pressure, front end inline, rotating regularly and not doing burn out.
I get 60k to 70k out of every set of tires I've run on my supeduty for the last 18 years.
@@benjaminhale1454 Probably if you never use it as a truck.
@@wildbill23c nice try. It's been a work truck for 18 years and counting
@benjaminhale1454 so I went into my favorite Tire Shop last time and told them that the tires that came on the truck only went 28,000 miles.
I said I need a tire that’s actually going to last. They recommended to me what they thought was the best option. I got 47,000 out of them. That is with waiting to change them until they were actually bald as you saw in the video.
Well done explanation. Thank you!
3/39/24..hey Brock, loved the Tire info video 2day..wow, $400+ p tire+ those micro ceramic little beads as ballance (?) + install..=$500/tire x 4 ( spare?) = $2000. ...man-o-man, good thing YT $ can help with all that.
Your dealer friend (Mr. HAMMER) was very knowledgeable & seemed to be a very good 'Go-To-Guy'. A+ video Brock!✅️🔧⚙️🔩💪👍🌞