Firestone tires

sandawilliams · Sep 29, 2016

My 2014 2500 came with the Firestone tires when new. I now have 19000 miles on them and they are starting to show the wear bars. Tires have been rotated often and kept at factory pressures. Anyone else have this problem?

drittal · Sep 29, 2016

Mine had 25,000 still had quite a bit of life left.

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I just want to elaborate, by quite a bit I mean I wasn't expecting another 25k, but figured they would need to be replaced in the next 10-15k or at the very latest before next winter.

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Dmopar74 · Sep 29, 2016

Mine have 15k and are near the bars, crappy tires

RAM_Designs · Sep 29, 2016

My dad put 32k on his and still had another 8-10k left in them before the tread got too low. He drives conservatively though, lots of highway miles. I have almost 15k on mine and have a ton of tread left.

MN-Ram · Sep 29, 2016

I put 27,000 on mine and replaced them about a month ago. They were at 6/32 rear and 7/32 fronts, but the deal I got on tires was too good to pass up. I was going to have to replace them before winter, so I went for it. They really sucked on wet pavement too.

tjfdesmo · Sep 29, 2016

Mine are down to 8/32 at 9,500 miles. Absolute garbage tires.

sandawilliams · Sep 29, 2016

tjfdesmo said:
Mine are down to 8/32 at 9,500 miles. Absolute garbage tires.

All of my miles have been highway. You would think Firestone would put a decent tire on these trucks to gain a good reputation and more people would buy their product when needing replacements. No more firestone's for me.

JRG18 · Sep 29, 2016

When I bought my truck there was 2 new tires installed and about 6/32 on the other 2 and the truck had 13.5k miles.

coobie · Sep 30, 2016

Another reason I am replacing the junk firestones before winter. :naughty:

Love my truck just cannot stand the stock tires.Mine only have 6,000 miles and are leaving tomorrow.

RAM_Designs · Sep 30, 2016

I can probably go 45k on mine before really needing new tires.

gustheram · Sep 30, 2016

I replaced mine just short of 25k miles. They still had some tread left and I could have probably pushed them to 30k but damn they were terrible in the rain. If somebody sneezed on the road, they about put you in the ditch. Absolutely 0 wet traction. Very likely the worst tires I've ever driven on. But then, I've heard much better reviews for the aftermarket purchased Transforce tires so I wonder if it's just a different compound for the OEM tires. Doesn't make any sense to me, but from a buddy that used to work for Goodyear, apparently it's fairly common in the tire industry to have separate rubber compounds for OEM tires and aftermarket tires of the same model. No clue but I'll never buy a set of Firestones based on how the OEM tires performed.

sandawilliams · Sep 30, 2016

RAM_Designs said:
I can probably go 45k on mine before really needing new tires.

The only way I could have gotten 45,000 out of mine would have been to jack the back up, put it in gear, and let it run.

stoney · Sep 30, 2016

Mine have just over 30,000 km on them, still life left in them, i'd say they have lost half the tread thus far.
Plan is to replace before the winter hits.
Aside from being just a plan crappy tire, I hate the the looks of them, tread footprint is vary narrow, so they look weak for a truck tire.
Going up one size too to a a 295/65/R18....almost the same O.D so if and when I need to use the spare, I will not have issues, but a wider tread and sidewall.

RAM_Designs · Sep 30, 2016

sandawilliams said:
The only way I could have gotten 45,000 out of mine would have been to jack the back up, put it in gear, and let it run.

Odd, you guys must drive a lot more aggressively than me, lot more stop and go traffic type stuff.

derag2 · Sep 30, 2016

I've got 19k on mine and they are on the wear bars.... I ordered new tires already... They suck! No traction in anything either.

sandawilliams · Sep 30, 2016

RAM_Designs said:
Odd, you guys must drive a lot more aggressively than me, lot more stop and go traffic type stuff.

I drive like an old man. (62)

coobie · Sep 30, 2016

I replaced my stock firestones(6,100 miles)today with Michelin defenders LTX/MS.I can tell ya the firestones in wet weather scared the HELL out of me,WHAT a POS..tire in wet weather. :flipthebird:

RAM_Designs · Sep 30, 2016

sandawilliams said:
I drive like an old man. (62)

Very odd. My dad drives like an old man and put over 30k on his no issues at all. I drive a little more aggressively and have 15k on mine with a ton of tread left. Maybe just different road surfaces/conditions, I don't know. Mine seem to work fine in water too, don't know what everyone is complaining about there.

stoney · Sep 30, 2016

RAM_Designs said:
Very odd. My dad drives like an old man and put over 30k on his no issues at all. I drive a little more aggressively and have 15k on mine with a ton of tread left. Maybe just different road surfaces/conditions, I don't know. Mine seem to work fine in water too, don't know what everyone is complaining about there.

Because visually they look like ****, so mentally they perform like ****....need to justify the new tires some how :cheers:

RAM_Designs · Sep 30, 2016

stoney said:
Because visually they look like ****, so mentally they perform like ****....need to justify the new tires some how

I'm getting 37's soon so I can understand that completely. Gotta justify it to the wife too haha.

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