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- Ram Year
- 2017 QC 4WD SLT
- Engine
- Pentastar 3.6
The good:
- Holy crap do these things grip! Unlike the stock Goodyears, I no longer spin the back tires when I get up onto the county road from my sloped driveway. Once the tires broke-in (see way below), you can tackle anything - even heavy water at high speed. This also means...
- I find that they comfortably hold on much tighter in sharp curves than the Goodyears did (at least I feel a lot more comfortable that they're not going to break grip.)
- Off-road performance is a dream - logging trails (semi-slippery 2"-3" diameter gravel, avg.), dirt trails (even with a decent amount of mud), and even pastureland is no problem. Oh, and in pasture I don't tear up the grass anymore, like I used to in spurts and starts with the Goodyears (even when they had a ton of tread on them). Only thing left to try these on is sand (maybe next time I get to the coast?)
- Thanks to the aggressive tread, the truck doesn't look like it skipped leg-day anymore, even though the tires are the exact same size (265/70/R17) as stock. I find that I no longer want to bother with looking into bigger wheels/tires/etc.
- Very little flex under load, in spite of getting the lowest-rated load rating.
- 50k mile lifespan? Yes, please!
The not-good and the pay-attention-to items:
- I did find one instance of wheel-hop on a particularly skittish road (it's a sharp curve with a buttload of bumps and ruts on the curve itself), but it only occurs in one place, and I have no idea why. I don't hot-dog it under load, so I cannot tell you if it's just part and parcel of having an empty bed when I hit it. The Goodyears never did this on that stretch of road though, curiously enough. (cue X-Files theme music here...)
- Gotta tack on around 250 more RPMs (3.6L Pentastar) to keep steady at 75 mph while unladen (straight-and-level freeway) nowadays. This leads to...
- Fuel efficiency dropped by around 1/2 mpg or so (I rarely get the chance to lead-foot it though. If I were doing nothing but freeway, I bet I'd lose 1-2 mpg or so).
- Before the tires sufficiently broke-in (around the first 40 miles, or basically getting to my house from the tire store), hydroplaning was a bit of an issue, though it went away by the time I got home, around 40 miles later. Something you might want to keep an eye out for if you get these critters brand-new. Good news is, afterwards, yeah, water ceases to be an issue... at all.
Overall:
Worth it, period. I paid $140/ea or so for them, and I'm definitely glad I went with these over yet another set of Goodyears (let alone road tires).
- Holy crap do these things grip! Unlike the stock Goodyears, I no longer spin the back tires when I get up onto the county road from my sloped driveway. Once the tires broke-in (see way below), you can tackle anything - even heavy water at high speed. This also means...
- I find that they comfortably hold on much tighter in sharp curves than the Goodyears did (at least I feel a lot more comfortable that they're not going to break grip.)
- Off-road performance is a dream - logging trails (semi-slippery 2"-3" diameter gravel, avg.), dirt trails (even with a decent amount of mud), and even pastureland is no problem. Oh, and in pasture I don't tear up the grass anymore, like I used to in spurts and starts with the Goodyears (even when they had a ton of tread on them). Only thing left to try these on is sand (maybe next time I get to the coast?)
- Thanks to the aggressive tread, the truck doesn't look like it skipped leg-day anymore, even though the tires are the exact same size (265/70/R17) as stock. I find that I no longer want to bother with looking into bigger wheels/tires/etc.
- Very little flex under load, in spite of getting the lowest-rated load rating.
- 50k mile lifespan? Yes, please!
The not-good and the pay-attention-to items:
- I did find one instance of wheel-hop on a particularly skittish road (it's a sharp curve with a buttload of bumps and ruts on the curve itself), but it only occurs in one place, and I have no idea why. I don't hot-dog it under load, so I cannot tell you if it's just part and parcel of having an empty bed when I hit it. The Goodyears never did this on that stretch of road though, curiously enough. (cue X-Files theme music here...)
- Gotta tack on around 250 more RPMs (3.6L Pentastar) to keep steady at 75 mph while unladen (straight-and-level freeway) nowadays. This leads to...
- Fuel efficiency dropped by around 1/2 mpg or so (I rarely get the chance to lead-foot it though. If I were doing nothing but freeway, I bet I'd lose 1-2 mpg or so).
- Before the tires sufficiently broke-in (around the first 40 miles, or basically getting to my house from the tire store), hydroplaning was a bit of an issue, though it went away by the time I got home, around 40 miles later. Something you might want to keep an eye out for if you get these critters brand-new. Good news is, afterwards, yeah, water ceases to be an issue... at all.
Overall:
Worth it, period. I paid $140/ea or so for them, and I'm definitely glad I went with these over yet another set of Goodyears (let alone road tires).
