can you believe it?

rickm · **Posted:** Tue Apr 13, 2010 1:58 am

In a week or so, I'll have 50,000 miles on my KK... and...... I'm still using the original Goodyear OEM tires! Those things have been through snow, mud, rain, deep sand, a recent t-bone car wreck and they are still running.

Now granted, I agree with all of you, they are genuine junk, but I've gotten my money out of them. I can't tell you how many flat tires I've had, and I ruined one of them and had to replace it. A couple of them are looking pretty thin... but they are still on my KK at 50K

I think I deserve some sort of award for that LOL

ihatemybike · **Posted:** Tue Apr 13, 2010 6:15 am

Yes, an award. I think I hear your Jeep asking for some man tires. :JEEPIN:

Cherrie 274 · **Posted:** Tue Apr 13, 2010 8:36 am

Want to buy another set. just pay shipping! :BANANA:

johnb · **Posted:** Wed Apr 21, 2010 12:30 pm

Cherrie 274 wrote:

Want to buy another set. just pay shipping! :BANANA:

I'll pay you $10 to take mine! :pepper:

geene519 · **Posted:** Wed Apr 21, 2010 3:47 pm

so lets see...thats 49,750 more miles than my stock tires...3 weeks after i got my truck, stockers were sold and replaced with something respectable...lmao

SETexasLibby · **Posted:** Fri Apr 23, 2010 12:45 am

geene519 wrote:

so lets see...thats 49,750 more miles than my stock tires...3 weeks after i got my truck, stockers were sold and replaced with something respectable...lmao

Hahaha I hear ya, I'm trying to decide on what to replace mine with, I need meat on my bones.

JeepinJarhead03 · **Posted:** Fri Apr 23, 2010 4:20 am

yes you deserve an award for putting up with them that long! and, getting every bit of your money out of them regardless

i have to ask though..

did YOU T-Bone someone?

and was the pavement slightly wet causing them OEM slipyears to slide

naturally.. just jerkin ya chain

Diggerfreek · **Posted:** Fri Apr 23, 2010 12:40 pm

JeepinJarhead03 wrote:

yes you deserve an award for putting up with them that long! and, getting every bit of your money out of them regardless

i have to ask though..

did YOU T-Bone someone?

and was the pavement slightly wet causing them OEM slipyears to slide

naturally.. just jerkin ya chain

Come on Mike, we all know they are called Crapyears :ROTFL:

rickm · **Posted:** Sat Apr 24, 2010 5:21 am

ha ha, yes I did T-Bone someone, but it was on a dry day....absolutely no way to miss that woman, no matter what tires I had.

got the KK out of the body shop today. It looks nice.. new bumper, new shock absorbers, new headlight assy, and another new piece, but I can't remember what it was now.

while it was there, they agreed to touch up my rear bumper where it had been scraped too. They said as long as they had to pait it, they would paint the spot on the rear bumper too.

Now I have over 50K on those tires... I got to go get new tires next. A couple of those things are down to the wear indicator bars.

I want something a little more agressive, but not so agressive that it's noisy on the highway.

I had a set of Goodyear Fortera Triple Tred tires on my KJ that I liked pretty well, but those things were a lot of $$

I work across the street from a tire shop, I'll go have him order me something next week.

I don't think I've ever had a set of tires on a car for over 50K miles before.

rickm · **Posted:** Wed Apr 28, 2010 3:36 am

well, as much as I hated to see them go, the Goodyear OEM's are gone. I had almost 51,000 on them.

I got some Cooper Starfire SF-510's. They have a fairly agressive tread pattern. I was afraid they would be noisy, but they are actually very quiet.

I got the 245/70/16 tires. Seems to be about the same thing as the original 225/75/16, but maybe a little bit taller and wider.

I'll go check them out in the sand later this week.

Diggerfreek · **Posted:** Wed Apr 28, 2010 1:51 pm

Nice

rickm · **Posted:** Fri Apr 30, 2010 11:28 am

I'm impressed so far. As agressive as the tread pattern is on these tires, I just knew they were going to be noisey. However, they are extremely quiet, I can't believe it.

Diggerfreek · **Posted:** Fri Apr 30, 2010 4:26 pm

Whats your mileage like?

rickm · **Posted:** Fri Apr 30, 2010 5:05 pm

Diggerfreek wrote:

Whats your mileage like?

not any difference so far. It can't be that bad, the tire is fairly close to the same size as the OEM tire. I think there's like 4 revolutions difference per mile.

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