The stock good years are truly that bad?

Trauma5951 · **Joined:** Thu Apr 15, 2010 12:11 pm **Posts:** 96

Are the stock tires seriously that horrible?

Either i am driving like an booty or these tires are darn near unsafe.

They barely grip the road if it is even the slightest bit wet and i feel like im going to die lol.

I still have a good 1/4 inch of tread on all tires...

Elt31987 · **Posted:** Sun Jul 25, 2010 2:22 pm

Nope its the Tires

wingnuts · **Posted:** Sun Jul 25, 2010 8:43 pm

They are really bad once the tread starts to go.

geene519 · **Posted:** Sun Jul 25, 2010 10:21 pm

wingnuts wrote:

They are really bad once the tread starts to go.

they are bad after 100 miles...lol

Diggerfreek · **Posted:** Sun Jul 25, 2010 10:32 pm

Yeah, the rubbers blow...........

STINGN · **Posted:** Mon Jul 26, 2010 12:08 pm

i had them for 55k, strated driving the jeep with 50k on it and i swear, i went 5mph through each turn

BrendonR · **Posted:** Mon Jul 26, 2010 12:23 pm

I've had mine now for a little over 2 years, and almost 40,000kms (25,000miles)... and really, I've only had one incident with em....

Assuming of course THESE are the tires everyone's complaining about:

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp?tireMake=Goodyear&tireModel=Fortera+HL+Edition&partnum=36TR8FORTHL&vehicleSearch=true&fromCompare1=yes&autoMake=Jeep&autoYear=2008&autoModel=Liberty&autoModClar=Limited%204wd

I was coming home from a ski trip, going up a hill on the highway at about 110km/h - the transmission downshifted to keep up it's speed, and the back wheels broke loose on black ice.

Typical city driving? even pretty decent snowstorms in the winter.... I really don't have too much to complain about....

Elt31987 · **Posted:** Mon Jul 26, 2010 12:58 pm

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp ... port%204wd

These are the ones.

rickm · **Posted:** Mon Jul 26, 2010 12:59 pm

that is not the same tire that was stock on my 08 KK Sport. I had a quite a few flat tires with mine, even ended up ruining one and replacing it, but got almost 50K miles out of them before I got new tires.

BrendonR · **Posted:** Mon Jul 26, 2010 3:10 pm

Elt31987 wrote:

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp?tireMake=Goodyear&tireModel=Wrangler+ST&partnum=275SR6WRSTOWL&vehicleSearch=true&fromCompare1=yes&autoMake=Jeep&autoYear=2008&autoModel=Liberty&autoModClar=Sport%204wd

These are the ones.

OOOOOoooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhh...

Gotcha. Those are the stock tires with the 16 & 17" wheels I believe. With the 18's (on a Ltd.) the stockers are GoodYear Forteras.....

I understand now... :dizzy:

Boiler · **Posted:** Mon Jul 26, 2010 4:17 pm

yes they do suck in all regards. Make the road feel really rough, handle like crap, you can't corner without feeling nervous, terrible wet traction (didn't keep them long enough to see snow).

I always tell people to sell them for whatever they can get immediately and get another high rated but relatively cheap all-season tire. Not one person I've told has listened...

Cherrie 274 · **Posted:** Mon Jul 26, 2010 9:08 pm

I replaced mine at about 15000 miles I bought it with 7500 miles.They suck on any thing but dry pavement,highway driving.

AdonisBHK · **Joined:** Tue Dec 01, 2009 1:42 am **Posts:** 37

three flats in my first summer of owning them

:banghead:

cybertron · **Joined:** Fri Feb 12, 2010 2:32 pm **Posts:** 72

I didn't completely understand how bad the stock tires are until I got stuck here:

There's a little bit of a hill that doesn't really show up in the picture, but there was still no reason for me to get stuck. Now I can't wait until they wear out and I can get some better ones.

The stock good years are truly that bad?

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