southern_chevy

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So how many miles are yall getting out of these, and how far can you run them before traction off-road starts to suffer? Reason I ask is when I first got these about 6 months ago they would not spin on dry pavement and now I can get a chirp, and as I was out playing today I found it a little harder to go thru some stuff. Dont get me wrong I think that they are great tires just wondering what kinda life to expect out of them. I have between 10-15k on them now.

InchUp

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They are still rather new, so not many drivers out on the road have a full life on them yet. I forget the release date of the Terra Grapplers but I know it's no more than 6 years with a full distribution to stores about 3-4 years ago. I've only seen a handful of trucks come in who have worn through all the tread life on them, most of which were F350's and 3500HD's. The Nitto's have a pretty soft tread compound compared to other brands so it's natural for a heavy truck like that to go through tires within 30k miles. So far we have an '05 F150 FX4 with 285/65R18 load range E Terra Grapplers with 21k miles on the "new" tires and the tread life is just starting to show wear. Most Nitto's have 15-16/32nds of tread when new, the F150 is down to 12/32nds on the rear and 13/32nds on the front, and I just rotated them. The most I've seen a 1/2 ton come into my store with is 45-50k miles (original mileage when purchase occurred was not taken down) on P-rated 265/70R17 Terra Grapplers and that is on another F150 FX4, an '02...my neighbor actually. He still has almost half his tread left and rotates his tires every 3k miles in a cross-rotational pattern, since I'm the one who does the work.

All in all, expect probably 45-50k miles out of these all terrain tires. If you get more out of them then you're probably just as religious as I am with rotations and rebalances/air checks.

southern_chevy

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Well I will be happy with 35-40k out of them. As of now they still have better then 1/4" of tread on them. I need to put some air in all of them and equal them out as well as rotate them. I know that they are the 8 ply tires not sure if that helps out any or not. Well just thought I would ask about the life of them. I know as of now I have no complaints about them and they were not to bad price wise at all.

InchUp

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If you have 265/75R16's try 37psi front and 32psi rear, unless of course you haul heavy loads in the bed all the time. I set all the 1/2 ton ECSB's that come through my store to that pressure if they have 8-ply full size tires. I consider a full size tire to be 31.66" tall and 10.50" wide regardless of rim until you get into the 18-22" sizes, then it's a whole 'nother ball game.

Also, rotate your tires religiously at 3k miles in this pattern every single time.

southern_chevy

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Will try that I think they are around the 40-45psi range now and ya that is the size I have.

venomhp

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tread wear also depends on how you drive, how fast you take turns, how aggressive you drive and so forth, but I knew inchup would be here as soon as he saw it! he deals with them day in and day out so hes probably one of the best sources to see how "average" wear different tires get