Steer Tires which are Better Goodyear G395 vs Kelly KLS?

no goodyear for us. No kellys, no dunlops. we go too far to go cheap. Michelin or go home.

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...s-/255407-problems-goodyear-399-see-pics.html

 

I used to use kelly's cause the shop was a mile away from home & got the best deal. I also thought my truck was supposed to bounce up & down while driving. after spending over 300 more at that time for the b.f st244 for steers. I felt like I was in a different truck. the kelly k.d.a. drives were deep rubber, but bounced like crazy.changed them too, years ago. never will go back to kelly.

 

Goodyear, Kelly & Dunlop, all the same company. Most Kelly tires are old Goodyear designs passed down when Goodyear came out with the "latest and greatest" designs. Most Dunlops are old Kelly designs.

In my experience, Goodyear has gone way down hill with the compounds over the past 10 years. Irregular wear for no reason and they will not stand behind there product. We tried all kinds of them, they failed miserably and Goodyear blamed everything but the tires. We will not use Goodyear, Kelly or Dunlop anymore.

Over the past 3 years, we've been tracking tires on our 20 tractors and trailers. Keep in mind that these are all car haulers, not a typical applications. Our steer tires are 275/70R22.5's and 295/60R22.5's. Drives and trailers are 255/70R22.5.

The best tires we've found for steers for our application are Michelin XZE2+. The most expensive tire gives the best cost per mile. Higher initial cost, but lasted so much longer that they were cheaper in the long run. A close 2nd is Continentals. All Goodyears came off prematurely due to irregular wear causing shimmy's & vibrations. Out of 12 Goodyears (6 trucks), not 1 made it to under 10/32" without getting pulled.

For drives, Michelin lasted the longest as well, but Yokohama's were not far behind for quite a bit cheaper, so cost per mile was better for the Yoks.

On trailers, it is tough to get complete sets of tires to run out with no major issues for a fair comparison. But, so far, the Yokohama's are winning over Michelins.

 

XZA3+ best steer tire hands down

 

That's a pretty narrow minded statement. It might be for your operation, not necessarily for the rest of the world's operations.

 

Michelins with centramatics here.

 

the thing that my tires are 285/75r and michelin doesn't have that size. Kelly with centramatics here.

 

I used GDYR,WORE TOO FAST, YOKAHAMA, WORE GREAT BUT RODE RUFF, MICHELINS, RUBBER COMING OFF ADJUSTED 3 IN TWO YEARS, BRIDGESTONE, CUPPING AND JUNK

 

That's because you drive a boat of a t600

 

depends where you drive.