Are these tires any good?
08-06-2008, 10:21 PM
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Decent? Sure, for maybe the first 100 miles. 
I will never put a Goodyear tire on anyone I care about and/or love. I see more Goodyears riddled with defects than I do all other tires combined. What gets me laughing the hardest is when dumb asses will come into my store and replace their 4 cupped, feathered and separated Goodyear Wrangler RT/S's with 4 Goodyear Wrangler RT/S's.
It just goes to show the stupidity of some people.
I will never put a Goodyear tire on anyone I care about and/or love. I see more Goodyears riddled with defects than I do all other tires combined. What gets me laughing the hardest is when dumb asses will come into my store and replace their 4 cupped, feathered and separated Goodyear Wrangler RT/S's with 4 Goodyear Wrangler RT/S's.
It just goes to show the stupidity of some people.and for the people that come in and put the same tires on that they just wore out are the ones that just dont know better that get the oil changed at jiffy lube and pay full price for their trucks/cars
Thanks Inchup for the info. The main reason I am considering the silent armor is that Sams club keeps it in stock. They don't keep the BFG All Terrain in my size in stock. They do have the BFG Long Trail in stock tho. I do a lot of hunting trips to OK, NE, IN, SD and I like the ability if I tear up a tire to limp into a Sams and be taken care of. Hard to do with any of the "local" shops, ya know?! The Silent Armor tires are load range E and 6 ply tread. I haven't decided yet.
08-07-2008, 09:57 AM
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I'm looking on the tire itself inchup. It's the Pro-Grade series of the Wrangler Silent Armor. The info sticker on the tire and the sidewall have load range E. Rated to 80PSI. I do need 245/75-16. I'll check the Goodyear site in a bit.
08-07-2008, 10:02 AM
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I checked the Goodyear site just to make sure I didn't read the tire wrong. The Pro-Grade series that I looked at is a load range E tire.
http://www.goodyeartires.com/goodyea...all=BSL,%20OWL
http://www.goodyeartires.com/goodyea...all=BSL,%20OWL
08-07-2008, 10:03 AM
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So the question at hand is, what are these tires going on?
08-07-2008, 10:04 AM
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I checked the Goodyear site just to make sure I didn't read the tire wrong. The Pro-Grade series that I looked at is a load range E tire.
http://www.goodyeartires.com/goodyea...all=BSL,%20OWL
http://www.goodyeartires.com/goodyea...all=BSL,%20OWL
08-07-2008, 10:10 AM
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My ride is a stock Toyota Tacoma 4 door 4x4. I do drive thru a lot of cut corn and soybean fields during hunting season. I've poked my share of corn stalks thru tires,haha. Goodyear claims this tire has a better ride than other E range tires due to the fewer plies and Kevlar. Who knows if that's true?! They also claim the sidewall is re-enforced. This is why I asked for all of your opinions. I have mainly been a BFG All Terrain guy for the last 15 years.
08-07-2008, 10:21 AM
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If you can fit a slightly taller tire I'd move you to a 265/75R16 instead in a load range C or D. I'd stick with the BFG All-Terrains over the Goodyears for hunting corn fields. I understand the situations you find yourself in too, since I hunt goose and duck every single weekend religiously on corn fields and rivers. I too have punctured a tire from a corn stalk but it was a 4-wheeler tire. If you go with the 265's your bill will be less than that of a 245 E-rated tire because you can pick up cheaper Nitto Terra Grapplers in a load range D. $168 for the E-rated Goodyear Silent Armors vs $133 for the Nitto Terra Grapplers in a load range D. Even if you were to go with 10-ply E-rated Terra Grapplers they're only $141 but with the additional size you're looking at more ground clearance, better load capacity and lower highway RPM's helping in the gas mileage category.
08-07-2008, 11:47 AM
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Leave a few ducks and geese for me please,hehe. That is my passion! I'm on the Oklahoma and Arkansas border so I hunt both states for ducks/geese. The Wrangler Pro-Grades are $165 a piece at Sams. Sams does have the BFG Long Trail tire at $131 each, they are load range C with 5 ply tread I think. I may go with them and save some money, more steel shot!
08-07-2008, 03:19 PM
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you really cant beat the BFG A/T for an all around best tire IMO, I ran the good years and was impressed with them, but I did end up trading them in for some BFG's because I lifted the truck, and the goodyears really make a truck look stock, my dad has them on his tundra and has around 55k on em and they still have lenty of tread left
08-11-2008, 09:40 PM
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Just for ***** and giggles, try the Nitto Terra Grapplers when your BFG AT's run out of usable tread rubber. Any tire store you buy from will gladly upgrade you to the BFG's if you return the Nitto's in less than a week.