New England B.S. Thread

I used to be a very big bf Goodrich Fanboy Until the KO2S seriously Failed me for the last time. I was actually thinking about possibly moving to the ko3's But I think the biggest aspect of them wasn't really the price But the weight. what size do you have them in?

 

lol..... It does kind of remind me of this....

 

1000% hit the nail on the head

 

The proportions are spot on

 

That’s upsetting. I only sold my KO2s as they were 7 years old. I don’t recall reading about your issues, what happened?

I’ve got a 265/75-16 Load E. Absolute overkill for what I have, certainly.

 

this is a good one…

 

This is beyond science. How did you accomplish this marvel?

 

Just lifted the uphill side on and had tiffany balance it while i lifted the downhill side. Then we put some temp supports while I did all the bolting screwing and shenanigans

 

I had a shop mounting up tires on my new trd pro wheels. He called on said that one of the wheel lips was damaged. He is adamant that they came out of the box like that.

My shop is finally mounting the remaining back ordered 295s. He called and said one of the wheels has the lip damaged. the finish is cracked off about 5" of the lip. I spent a weekend doing several coats of ceramic coating and had all these pictures. immediately after, i boxed them and re-wrapped the. with the foam. They sat for 5 months in my closet until i brought them still boxed to his shop last friday. I am pretty confident they damaged the lip on the wheel machine. Even if i crashed and rolled my truck, i don't see how it would make a 5" long, even gash along the radius of the tire mounting surface.
He's been my sole mechanic for 8 years now. How do i approach this without being confrontational? He is adamant they came out of the box like that.

 

My Yokos are getting the cracking at almost 6 yrs old, what sucks is I bought a 75K tire and 6 months after that I got mandated to work from home. I've put less than 40K on them and plenty of tread left but oh well..

 

In my opinion, from the picture at least, looks like its painted over black. Like a poor casting/forging or some asshat damaged them before paint. Seen that before in the machine shop. Usually the tire machine with scratch, not gouge like that. Digging in like that would stall the tire machine

 

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It was a great day on the trail until we met Up at the end and I saw the horror that was attached To my wheels

 

Right there with ya. Always hear, "need E range or the sidewalls fail" BFG KO/KO2 never torn a sidewall." Blah blah.

I'll never run them again. Only good thing I can say, is the old KOs wore like iron, and the KO2s were actually DECENT in the snow.

I usually avoid the tire and oil stuff, but, since it's here...

Used to run DurTracs on my work Quigleys(and service trucks), which, saw more off pavement and 4low time than anyone would believe. They held great to the abuse, good hybrid tire. Just got loud, and cupped with miles.
But, my van was pushing 8k ounds and I'd usually get a fresh set in the fall.

 

They were immaculate prior. I inspected them before i accepted receipt of them at the toyota dealership. They had zero imperfections, bubbles casting flaws when i spent hours applying ceramic coating personally. I don't see how they would be damaged that much during my drive to deliver them to shop. They were stored in the box, wrapped in foam.
When the owner called me, he said it was damaged when they opened the box. The picture of the wheel is in the box. He said that usually happens in shipping. I told him i had inspected them and there was no damaged and had personally ceramic coated them. After that his story seemed to change, he went to the shop and asked the tech to show him the wheel and the box. He said non of the chips were in the box and the box didn't seem damaged. I told him i didn't want him to mount it and i would think on what i wanted to do. I didn't rush responding to them or going over last night to see if they would fess up. The owner's wife called me and said they would overnight a wheel from toyota and only charge me their cost without markup.
I didn't ask for anything or even come off as mad on the phone. I find it suspicious that the last wheel they pulled to mount happened to be the damaged one. Also, if i brought them a damaged wheel, why would the offer getting a discounted wheel when i didn't ask. I didn't tell him i had pictures of all 4 wheels after i ceramic coated.

 

Likely because it wont cost them anything and then they wont lose you as a customer.

 

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and I wouldn't pay for the new wheel, if you have proof that they were good. And now they are trying to get out of it with out costing them. I would say , thank you for the offer, but I don't feel its fair I pay for the damage that appears to happened at the shop.

 

Yea that makes sense then. Must have tried to paint over whatever they did. Almost looks like it was dropped then

 

My 2G had the original KOs and it was the OR with the electric brake booster so I could get ABS to engage at the drop of a hat on rainy pavement. My 3G doesn't have the same booster so I didn't have issues with the ABS on the KO2s or now the KO3s.

Admittedly, for this truck my off-roading has been limited to snow, poor pavement and some dirt-ish roads near the beach, so the sidewall issues everyone here is seeing hasn't impacted me. I just have the quiet / wears like iron side of the tire. A friend had Duratracs on his wife's Xterra and while they're probably a superior tire they were LOUD.

 

Had Duratracs on my Avalanche back in 2010 or so, until probably 2012 or 2013. They were amazing in all conditions until about 25k miles at which point they were as loud as a full-on M/T and the rain performance started to get a little questionable. Still far and away the best snow tire I've ever run, at least for a street vehicle.

That was 15 years ago though. The old Duratrac is ancient in tire years. The new one (Duratrac RT) is hopefully an improvement in longevity but I haven't heard many reports of people running them. Duratrac was all the rage when it was new but peoples' tire choices have moved on.

 

Agree with all of the above.

I will say, I had a set of the Goodyear UltraTerrain on my Frontier. Would absolutely run them again. Excellent snow, not noisy, unless the pavement was wet, and that was more a wet rubber sound. Nice sure footed tire.

I'll probably give the new RTs a whirl when I'm done with these Wildpeaks.
4lbs lighter, slightly more tread depth, etc.