Tires for 18" wheels

[Maxtor]

My truck F350, is coming with LT275/70R18 all season BSW tires. Normally, factory tires are not the best. How do they hold up? and what is a good replacement tire for this wheel? I looked at the tires on the trucks at the dealer's lot, and found that every truck had a different brand and size tire. Whats up with that??
Anyone found a national brand store to buy good tires for an 18" wheel? I chose the all season tires because most of my driving will be pulling a 5th wheel on highways.
My truck is a 4x4 with posi, for those rare instances when I will be out of state in snow country, so I don't think I will need the radical tread tires.

Thanks

 

[Max Power]

My experience is that you are sort of limited to sizes when it comes to 18" tires. Our 06 came with continental raised white letter 275/70R18. I am thinking about switching them to BFG A/T's in 285/65R18. That is about the closest I could find in a somewhat decent tire.

 

[Fine69]

The factory Conti's flat out SUCK!! I would suggest getting BFG's or Nitto's.

 

[acjjkamp]

We do a lot of towing too.
I'm gettting close to looking for some replacements too. I've found a few 18" D rated, but the only E rated so far has been the Conti's
I'm told that there are some D rated tires that are at or near the E ratting, but I havent heard from anyone that uses them along with towing. Maybe someone will chime in.

 

[ranger boy]

The continental's blow, i had the nitto's but my friends old man had the conti's and they were almost done at 21,000 and they rode like crap

 

[rgdillon]

We do a lot of towing too.
I'm gettting close to looking for some replacements too. I've found a few 18" D rated, but the only E rated so far has been the Conti's
I'm told that there are some D rated tires that are at or near the E ratting, but I havent heard from anyone that uses them along with towing. Maybe someone will chime in.

And Maxtor also -

I just a few months ago went all through this. I settled for the D rated BFG's and for me it's about the worst thing I did.

My truck came with Goodyears - they make an 18" Load E rated tire. I should have gone back with that but was looking for more off road aggression. The Goodyear was excellent on the road, wet roads etc - just not that great off road. Seriously I wish that I had put them back on. Hopefully I can save up enough mad money to buy new rims, tires and a very very small lift - just enough to clear the tires - by the time these BFGs wear out.

Anyway - look for the Goodyears - best choice you have at the moment.

Ron

 

[Maxtor]

Thanks

Thanks for the info.

I called our local Les Schwab, and they said that they had two different tires for the 18" wheel with 10 ply sidewall. Toyo at $291 each, or Continental for $589 for a set of four. They are very proud of the Toyo and not so proud of the Contental tires. I am going to take a look at the Goodyear tires, I have always had good luck with Goodyear tires.

 

[rgdillon]

Thanks for the info.

I called our local Les Schwab, and they said that they had two different tires for the 18" wheel with 10 ply sidewall. Toyo at $291 each, or Continental for $589 for a set of four. They are very proud of the Toyo and not so proud of the Contental tires. I am going to take a look at the Goodyear tires, I have always had good luck with Goodyear tires.

I would be interested to know exactly which Toyo tire it is. I spent a little over 3 weeks looking at every single tire maker. Granted I was looking for an AT tire and not a street tire - I did not find any AT Toyo tire with an E rating that would fit a stock rim correctly.

Let us know what you find out.

Ron

 

[Maxtor]

Toyo Open Country 285/60/18 at tire.

Go to the below url and they show the 285/60R18 tire. It was to late to contact Les Shwab, but I think that they were talking about the below Toyo Light Truck
Tire.


http://ssl.delti.com/cgi-bin/reifensucher.pl?ID=froogle&typ=R-108244&Country=US

 

[Maxtor]

On the other hand....

The price and the size for the Toyo tire is wrong... I will call Schwab tomorrow and find out which tire they are talking about.