[Jagtec1]

I have BFG Rugged Trail TA's, E-load range on my Avalanche. Ride is nice, and they are tough.

[Bill Eveland]

The correct size in a previous post was 285/75/16, not the 65 series. BTW at the Ford dealer I work at we charge 1/2hr ($40) to reprogram the bigger tire size in.
I seem to like the Bfg's lately especially the Long Trail t/a, I don't care for the Continentals or Generals. Michilins are nice but expensive.

[bulletpruf]

Originally Posted by Bill Eveland

The correct size in a previous post was 285/75/16, not the 65 series. BTW at the Ford dealer I work at we charge 1/2hr ($40) to reprogram the bigger tire size in.
I seem to like the Bfg's lately especially the Long Trail t/a, I don't care for the Continentals or Generals. Michilins are nice but expensive.

Good info on the size and computer issues.

Priced Michelins today in Round Rock, Texas. $196 each for the E load rated ones. Forgot to ask if that included mounting and balancing, but I'm guessing that it did not. Lady I was talking to said she got 90k out of a set on her truck.

Scott

[Cardo]

The correct size is 265/75/16..... we never put a 285 tire on an Excursion or SuperDuty in the factory.... and they need to be load range E. That's what the tire recall was for on the Excursion a couple of years ago... factory tires were D's.

[Bill Eveland]

I said the size he has now was 265/75 16 in an earlier post, but he wanted to upsize the tires and I posted 285/65 16 and was making a correction.

I drilled holes in the sidewalls of alot of good tires when that recall came out.

[sdbob]

I ahd 2 flats going in and out of stone quarries on my new 06 GMC. The tire shop where I hang out,John said the oem tires(basically passenger car tires) were not the best for my 1500, advised me to go with Kellys'.They are 17",10 ply.The sidewalls seem strong.towed the race car to Norwalk twice.They are not noisy on the road,seem to do well in the snow(2WD).the only downside is they pick up small stones in the quarries where I work.they were about $330/a pair.I do feel safe.John has never let me a stray.

[Don Brown]

I have a Duramax 2500 Quad cab 4X4 and was looking for tires for it. I went on the Duramax BB and the Yokohama Geolander was highly recommended. My truck had 265 Michelins on it and I thought that they rode a bit harsh. If I was going to use the bulletin board for answers, then I felt that I would take their suggestion. I went with 285's and couldn't be happier, smooth, quiet ride, hauls my car trailer extremely well, to the point where you sometimes forget you are towing a trailer. They are great in the snow. I have over 35000 miles on them as we speak and very little tread wear.

[bulletpruf]

Just took a close look at the tires on it now - they are C load rated - and I've done plenty of towing with them. Yeah, I know, not real smart. Coming off this weekend. Going with Michelin 285s (E load rated, of course).

Thanks,

Scott

[stimpy]

1st thing Michelin Is French owned NOT Bridgestone they are japanese owned and also own Firestone , I use Bridgestone M773s (commercial) on my C3500 SRW Chevy (245/75/16) and tow a 14K tag trailer , these are the same tires that U-haul and Ryder is using they are a steel belted 10 ply load range E , you have to run them at the pressure listed by the tire manufacture not the vehicle manufacture to make them last long ( I run all 4 at 80 Psi like Bridgestone recommends not 45/65 that chevy recommends which is for a pleasent ride ) and have 65K miles on this set and have half of the original treaddepth , the last set lasted 40k miles at the Chevy pressure settings they ran HOT and the front tires severly cupped out and the rears wore the sides of the treads out ( this is with HD KYB gas shocks and rotated at 10 k miles ) and now the truck doesn't wiggle when pulling a trailer going around curves and on ramps like the uniroyals that where on it originally which lasted 15 k miles , I rather spend the extra dough instead of risking my toy and the truck and most importantly mine and my familys life to save $200 bucks on a set of tires, I also learned if you go to a semi truck tire place you can save about 30 bucks a tire for E range tires the M773's are around $200 each .( I have been running Bridgestones on my semis for years this is one of the reason for my decision that and my tire guy wouldn't want to loose my business )

[bulletpruf]

Michelins are holding up fine. 285s are a good fit; fill up wheelwells, but only have a slight rub at full lock at the back of one of the wheelwells.

SDW

[David Holmberg]

Glad you liked them, they were great on my truck.