time for tires and wheels for the eff-2-fiddy

Falken gets my vote. Ran the rt's and the at's on my Cummins. Both exceeded their mileage warranty (only tire that's ever done that on any of my diesel) good traction in wet, dry, off-road, and even in the snow. Quiet and ride well. I'm not very good about rotating and these things just last. I commute 150 miles a day and tow heavy (26k pounds) often. I leave the rears at max psi, (80ish), and they still don't burn the tread out of the middle.

I honestly don't understand how these tires hold up so well. Ran toyos and Michelin before and neither made it to their warranty's. Soon as the factory Firestones we're done (less than 30k miles) on my current ram I switched to falkens. Now at 255k miles I just put my third set of ats on and I'm not planning on buying another set until 310k ish. Running 35*12.5r18's on factory wheels that are probably 1/2" or so too narrow. Doesn't seem to matter. I get the new tire squirm for the first 2-3k miles but then they're good.

I always order from discount tire direct and have a local shop install and once had the dealer install them. Each time I ask for an alignment and no shop has ever said it needs an alignment. Also can't explain that, must be the magical Cummins juice or something - same stuff that makes fuel towing up hill I guess 🤔
 
My 2018 Ram 2500 came with a new set of the Firestone transforce HT2. On the highway the a quiet and preform well in the wet. So far they have sucked on wet pea gravel to the point I had to use 4wd to back out of a drive way. I have also spun on wet grass. Last night turning on to my buddies snow covered road in Banner Elk they the spun immediately on the slight up hill. I had to back down to the plowed road and put the truck in 4wd to make it up to his house. They have also spun on wet grass. Once these tires wear down more I'll be putting a set of of all terrains on it.
 
Keith1138 said:
My 2018 Ram 2500 came with a new set of the Firestone transforce HT2. On the highway the a quiet and preform well in the wet. So far they have sucked on wet pea gravel to the point I had to use 4wd to back out of a drive way. I have also spun on wet grass. Last night turning on to my buddies snow covered road in Banner Elk they the spun immediately on the slight up hill. I had to back down to the plowed road and put the truck in 4wd to make it up to his house. They have also spun on wet grass. Once these tires wear down more I'll be putting a set of of all terrains on it.
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I have not heard one good thing about the Firestones, especially from the Ram owners.

I have Falken Wildpeak RTs on now, and they're doing good but I only have about 10k on them. No issues hauling the trailers, quite enough for an AT type tire, haven't been stuck anywhere yet. Before these I ran Nitto Ridge Grapplers and they were excellent as well. I got over 50k from them and would've went further if I rotated them more.

Duane
 
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