opinions on kelly KDA drive tires

Inferior rubber compund. We ran kellys on drives on all of our trucks. They started cracking and developing bulges on the sidewalls. We also recapped them and didnt last 6 months on flatbeds.

I would rather run a linglong recap than virgin kelly. Lol. We are now running all michelins.

I will try to post pics of rubber cracking on 1 yr old tire.

 

I have the kelly kda's over 340,000 miles so far the only problem is they bounce real bad.

 

rubber cracking on brand new tire.

 

I got 8 kda at wingfoot for 3000 dlrs its been about 20000 miles and the only bad thing I can say is that they bounce horribly when bobtailing.

 

I have ran kellys without any problems

 

I had a set, won't buy them again. They wore even, lasted about 330,000 miles, but they hold rocks, which end up getting driven into the belts and making the tire worth nothing as far as a casing credit.

 

I think most Chinese tires 'v this problem with pouncing

 

Rolling resistance numbers are most important because fuel savings can be worth more than several sets of tires. I prefer Michelin tires myself.