Duratrac quality issues

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Have 30k on mine and they are fine. Much older, but fine all the same.

how much aired down wheeling with them before the carcass pop'd?

IMO The majority of times you read them the tire shop is to blame.

 

I am planning on putting a set of these on my 2012 OffRoad. I called for prices yesterday and asked for c ply. He said he couldn't get me those but offered me e ply at $183 / tire out the door. Sweet deal. Here's my question, is an e ply too heavy? Will I have to keep the air pressure up over 40 psi? Personally 38 is about right for me for my everyday driving. Thanks in advance.

 

Curious to know what size you requested? I couldn't get C's in 285

 

They are good tires but like others have said the sidewalls are very thin. I had a customer who had them on his woods truck and he came in with a flat. A twig had gone through the sidewall, lol.

 

A twig? mercy. I am going with 265/75/16s.

 

I had almost 10k on my set and split a sidewall doing highway travel. Still love the tires and toyota care covered the replacement of my 6 ply with 10 ply for both rear tires (because no 6 ply where available). So no cost to me in the end.

 

No such thing as 6 and 10 ply on light truck tires any longer. That's all old school talk for bias cotton weaved tires.

At most you have 3 ply tires.

Ply rating originally referred to the number of cotton layers used to strengthen a tire's casing. Today, when tires are labeled 10-ply, they are not actually constructed of 10 individual layers of cotton, but offer the equivalent strength. Passenger tires are currently constructed from one or two body plies, while light truck tires consist of two to three, or one steel ply. Over time, steel ply and radial construction replaced cotton leading to a new distinction, load range.

Load range identifies the maximum amount of weight that can be placed on a tire horizontally, which varies depending on tire size and inflation limits.

 

This trip was about 400 miles when this happened, I think he was only aired down to 25.

 

I purchased mine just over a year ago, with a DOT code of 2813 (so they were produced in the 28th week of 2013) and have had no issues with them. They're C load, they balanced perfectly (one of them only took 1/4 oz of weight on the whole tire). They gave great traction all winter regardless of the weather conditions, and I took them on some discontinued logging roads this spring on trips up to camp without any problems at all.
A lot of the complaints from people about the Duratracs having weak sidewalls stem from people taking them into the rock gardens, which isn't what they're designed for. They're designed to be an all terrain tire that is suitable for offroad use, behaves itself onroad, and gives excellent winter traction.
If you use them as such then you should have no problems.
If you want to go into the rock gardens, get an MT.

 

Have some 315's on my Fiance's 05 v8 4runner since july last year and they're been nothing short of astounding as an all around tire. Only needed to get them rebalanced twice and rotated twice over 10k miles and they're wearing well too.
Her 4runner is her DD about 10 miles each way to work and back each day, we take it on trips to see our families (trips of 300-500 miles each way, crossing several mountain passes too), and we take it out offroad into the mountains to get to hiking or camping spots and they've been great everywhere. Best tire I've driven on in the snow, her 4runner is damn near unstoppable in the winter around here, even over the Donner pass on I80 heading down to the bay area. Last christmas on our way home there were snow tire/chain restrictions and we went on through with no problems. Saw at least a dozen cars/suvs that had slid off into the guard rails and even a few chained up having problems climbing the pass. zero issue for us though with the duratracs on.

 

Cool. I was wondering if all that sidewall damage was due to previous use or driving on the flat because those sidewalls look pretty thrashed up (and I do not mean the carcass separating).

 

I had 15k on mine when I took them off. Had them for a little over a year 11/32 tread left and I was starting to get very bad steering shake around 60-65 mph.

I had 33x12.5x15. 2-Ply sidewall. Two side-wall punctures (stick & cactus quill) and one 5" slash thru 1.5 plys on a third tire that I didn't notice til I was cleaning to sell my three good tires.

Three fubar'd tires in a year. I wouldn't recommend them.

But they do handle any type of terrain they were on...

 

I've had mine for about 20-25k miles or so. 265/75-16 load c. They're so so tires. They were great when they were newer. Not that loud and balanced pretty well.

Now they are problematic with balancing. Started around 20k miles. Just can't get them corrected.

There is still plenty of tread left, but they are slippery as hell on wet roads. The ass end is always kicking out, and the tires want to spin when taking off.

I will most likely go with a completely different brand of tire on my next set.

 

Just drove mine back from the tire shop a couple hours ago

"6 ply" sidewall 265-75-16.

they have more roll in them, feels softer around the corners

the first aggressive take off to merge I felt them slip on basically dry road (but it is a little colder today)

I can hear them alright, louder than stock by far. howling more. not terrible though, but let me go on a highway run...

seems a little darty due to the softness. look good and they feel a little taller, but im probably imagining that, felt a little slower but maybe thats my imagination too.

I got it up to 120km/h with no balance issue that i could feel.

shop said they have max 50psi rating, and that i should run NO LESS than 40PSI, but to watch the wear patter closely and see if that needs adjustment.