Nexen tire bombs

When you start evaluating tires it is not fair to say that X Manufacture is bad just because you had an issue with 1 tire. Every Manufacture has had it's good and Bad tires but it does not mean that all the tires by X Manufactures are bad. If you are evaluating tires you must look at all the factors such as Manufacture, Model, Size and Date and place of manufacture as a minimum for it to be a fair evaluation. Every Manufacture of tires, Foreign OR Domestic have had a bad batch of tires and when you really look at it you can break it down to a specific series of tires based on the factors I discussed previously.

Furthermore if you file your complaint you will probably be required to file all those factors I've discussed plus be prepared to have your rig evaluated for alignment, air pressure etc.

patyacht said:

https://www.utires.com/articles/tires-made-usa-american-foreign-brands/

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That’s a good article if I want to know where some tires are made, but I didn’t see anything about manufacturers using cheaper materials to build a particular model of tire that they supply to a car manufacturer vs buying the same model tire as a consumer at a tire store.

Jimmy07 said:

That’s a good article if I want to know where some tires are made, but I didn’t see anything about manufacturers using cheaper materials to build a particular model of tire that they supply to a car manufacturer vs buying the same model tire as a consumer at a tire store.

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To me the "proof is in the pudding". I've had many sets of Oem tires wipe out way sooner than they should have compared to an identical replacement....and that's proof enough for me.

I doubt you will find anything official from any tire oem to confirm this. It'd be like McDonald's posting that eating too many french fries will give you cancer or some other disorder. We all know it will, but they would never admit it. Same situation here......

At least that's how I see it!

I got 42K out of my stock trans force. Perfect wear and decent traction.
Meanwhile, I got 11K out of a set of Nitto Ridge Grapplers....


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I run on nothing but Michelin. Have a friend who highway drives and bosted that he received 100k out of a set of Michelin. I have a neighbor with Nexen tires on a ram 3500 dually and is taking his off at 12k because of they cannot get balanced. For what a 3500 costs, the hundred dollars difference between nexen and Michelin is nothing.

Try to buy an American made trailer tire. Bought a Wells Cargo and it had Chinese tires.

The bean counters have taken over. Every vehicle I buy, goes to Discount and replaced with Michelins or BFG (if I do not plan on keeping it long). Peace of mind is worth a set of Michelins.

I too pull a fiver and have 18,000 miles on my Nexens. The fronts I'll be lucky to get 25,000 miles. The rears are wearing well, should get at least 40,000 on those. You can't easily rotate the tires on these duallies with the TPMS. You have to dismount and remount and balance. My next set will be Michelins.

tdeperte said:

I too pull a fiver and have 18,000 miles on my Nexens. The fronts I'll be lucky to get 25,000 miles. The rears are wearing well, should get at least 40,000 on those. You can't easily rotate the tires on these duallies with the TPMS. You have to dismount and remount and balance. My next set will be Michelins.

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Not a dually but when the dealer rotated my tires, transforsce AT, the stems were marked as if they remounted and balanced the tires. Still the tpms was Screwed up.

Ok I’m killing time at my local “Discount Tire Company” in Fort Worth, Texas. Did a search on Nexen tires and Ram trucks and found this blog. Here’s my experience. I’ve got a 2015 Ram 3500 duality with 13,000 miles. My Nexen tires started failing at around 9,000 miles. 3 of the original 6 have now been replaced due to tread separation. The third is being put on now. After the first one I called Nexen and they partially warranted it, I had to pay like $50. While I was at the tire store they sold me warranties on all the rest of the tires. So now I’m replacing them one by one when the tread separates and it costing me $18.50 each time for new warranties. I only use the truck to pull a 5th wheel and these tires are very unnerving. I agree with the original poster, these tires suck and are a bomb from my personal experience

RAJ3500 said:

Ok I’m killing time at my local “Discount Tire Company” in Fort Worth, Texas. Did a search on Nexen tires and Ram trucks and found this blog. Here’s my experience. I’ve got a 2015 Ram 3500 duality with 13,000 miles. My Nexen tires started failing at around 9,000 miles. 3 of the original 6 have now been replaced due to tread separation. The third is being put on now. After the first one I called Nexen and they partially warranted it, I had to pay like $50. While I was at the tire store they sold me warranties on all the rest of the tires. So now I’m replacing them one by one when the tread separates and it costing me $18.50 each time for new warranties. I only use the truck to pull a 5th wheel and these tires are very unnerving. I agree with the original poster, these tires suck and are a bomb from my personal experience

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I have a 2016 RAM 3500 Dually that I pull a 5th wheel toyhauler with and I've had the exact same problem with my Nexen tires. Luckily I purchase a tire warranty when I first bought the truck and have since had 3 tires replaced for tread separation and a 4th tire for improper wear. All tires were replaced free of charge but it doesn't negate the fact that these tires suck! The rear tires are wearing much better than the front and are still doing good. When the time comes, I'm going to replace all 6 with Michelin tires, but for now I keep getting new tires for free so I will let Nexen continue to pay for my tires until my warranty expires.

Food for thought ..

https://www.treadwright.com/collections/filter

I've got 21k miles on my Nexens and so far so good and 90% is heavy towing (15k+) hoping they get me to 50-60k

Don't trust those Nexens, especially on the front. I had a rough ride develop that I thought was the road surface. It would come and go over several days. A few days later I was stopped at a red light. When the traffic started to move my steering wheel would jerk back and forth below about 5 miles an hour. Pulled over and found a bulge in the right front tire thread. The belts were ready to go. Never hit a thing, am the only driver, and maintain 80 psi.

Believe it or not this was difficult to catch. At first I thought it was the road surface. Then I would have sworn it was a rear tire. I had 18000 miles at the time of failure. No more Nexens for me.

My 2016 Ram 3500 16K miles front tires cord separating. Trying to get Nexen to warranty them. The Ram dealer said no warranty once you drive off the lot.
Hopeful that Nexen is going to at least partial refund. 4 more on the rear waiting to have issues too.

Replaced the Nexen tireson my 3500 after18000 miles. Both front tires had separated belts while towining my 5th wheel. Luckily we made it to our destination.
Nexen name means to start looking for the Nexen to buy for your truck.

Not a fan of the Transforce, but they sure sound better than the Nexen's. I've never even heard of Nexen. Anyone know who owns them and who else they own?

68PowerWagon said:

... Almost like they use a different compound for the ones for FCA... probably cheaper. You would think this would be a perfect time for a tire manufacturer to show off their tire performance for future sales.

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I feel the same about the Duratracs on the Power Wagon. I have read of so many people damaging the stock ones it is insane, yet everyone else who buys them through a tire shop swears they are the best tire ever. Makes you wonder if Ram gets the junk sets for their trucks.

I have a 15 3500. The day i bought the truck i headed to Discount Tire to trade the Nexens in. The truck had @50 miles. The employee said the tires were so poorly made that they could not take them due to the liability. I have traded tires on every new vehicle for a decade or more to get a better all terrain. I headed a town over to another store and same story.
So game on i was going to run these tires come hell or high water to 30,000. I did not make it. I rotate every 7500 miles. As long as the tires stay paired up on the rear they wore well. But, once subjected to the front axle they shift quickly. I had subs at work telling me i had a flat multiple times a week. But the tires had 80 psi cold and were just bulging under the trucks weight. They just could not take the weight of the Cummins at all. I ended shifting and breaking belts in four of the seven tires. If it were not for daily inspections i would have had actual blowouts. I knew they sucked so checked them every time i got in the truck. My plan was to just run the rear axle with one tire on each side for the last thousand miles to make it to 30,000. But, in one day i lost both fronts and had the truck on stands in a field as i went for tires. My plan of one tire on each corner failed by losing two in a day.
I bought Cooper ST Maxx replacements. The difference is shocking. I still run 80 up front but now they look good and not like they are flat. The rear Nexens were kept at 65 cold. With the Coopers this pressure was too high and the tire rode on the center. I used chalk to find when they were wearing flat to the road and ended up at 35 psi. The truck is loaded with construction tools and sits at about 9800-10,000 pounds daily. The Nexens were a total crap tire. At least Ram went cheap on something easy to replace even though it is a dangerous tire and a safety issue. I imagine that at some point the NTSB may step in or there may be a class action lawsuit once someone dies.
Back in 15 one of the engineers for the Nexen tire on the Ram was on the other forum. When Ram went out for tire bids they had a price point to meet along with a spec for the truck. No other manufacturer could meet the target specification and price. So Nexen had a tread that looked like the Michelin MS and hit the approximate IIRC $35-$50 per tire price point. IMO they did so by making a cheap light tire lacking structural strength the other tires had. When i put a Nexen next to the Cooper ST Maxx the weight difference was shocking.
So if you have the Nexens be careful. If possible keep the rears rears only and get a quality front tire. If you haul or tow heavy junk them all.

I had Bridgestone Duravis M700 on my previous Chevy 2500.
I got almost 65,000 out of my fronts and 50,000 out of the rears. I stuck with them the whole time I owned the truck, 9 years 185,000 miles.

I have 2014 dually diesel 3500 4x4, with the nexen tires. I have only got 13k miles on mine, as we use to pull our fifth wheel only. So far so good. Those front tires are holding up a lot of weight, so it figures those would be the first to fail. I didnt know where these tires were from, but it figures they arent from the US.