More durable 15" tires

[Mike C]

To begin with make sure you are running LT tires and not P metric passenger car tires. Then I would look at an all terrain tire. I would think that the BF Goodrich All Terrain TA KO2 would be pretty decent for what you describe.

Consider going to 16" rims and you can get D and E rated tires.

[1976gmc20]

Originally Posted by Mike C

To begin with make sure you are running LT tires and not P metric passenger car tires. Then I would look at an all terrain tire. I would think that the BF Goodrich All Terrain TA KO2 would be pretty decent for what you describe.

Consider going to 16" rims and you can get D and E rated tires.

Did you not read my posts ?

Do you think I do not know what tires that I already have ???

[Mike C]

Originally Posted by 1976gmc20

Did you not read my posts ?

Do you think I do not know what tires that I already have ???

Wow. Cheerios soggy? Sorry to waste your time telling you what you already know.

I know what you wrote and I just suggested you make sure. Half the people on this board have a truck new to them and don't have any idea. I just read a post a guy didn't know his truck had been converted to OD.

A lot of the info on these posts can be used by someone who isn't sure what they have, and confiming LT tires and not P series passenger tires is still reasonable advice.

As is my suggestion you go to 16's. Which Special K echoed. Can't say I've ever been called out for such a minor grievance as suggesting you double check something. YMMV.

[1976gmc20]

Originally Posted by Mike C

Wow. Cheerios soggy? Sorry to waste your time telling you what you already know.

I know what you wrote and I just suggested you make sure. Half the people on this board have a truck new to them and don't have any idea. I just read a post a guy didn't know his truck had been converted to OD.

A lot of the info on these posts can be used by someone who isn't sure what they have, and confiming LT tires and not P series passenger tires is still reasonable advice.

As is my suggestion you go to 16's. Which Special K echoed. Can't say I've ever been called out for such a minor grievance as suggesting you double check something. YMMV.

Yeah, I've only had the truck 14 years and been through about five sets of tires since then. It had P235s when we bought it and pretty soon after that I switched them out to LT235. I still have the factory original P235 spare tire sitting out in the garage. I switched it out when I bought the second set of 4 LT235 and had at least one decent LT left over from the previous set.

So I have at least a half dozen mismatched but somewhat usable LT235s sitting around with various amounts of wear, plus some ruined ones. And some years ago I gave away at least a couple LT235s to some friends for their old full size Ford van.

We went through at least a couple sets of LT235s on the 1977 C-10 Suburban that we drove for eleven years before getting before getting the 1991 4wd. It had some sort of crappy bias ply tires on it when we got it.



I have just never got into the "flotation" tires (31x, 33x, 35x, etc) so I wondered if those would hold up better than the LT235. It's hard for me to imagine the hard core four wheelers popping one or two tires every time they go out, but maybe that's just part of the expensive fun