Duragrapplers at 65,000 miles

[NavyDood]

Thought I would post up some pics of my Nitto Dura Grappler 285/70R17 Load Range E tires that were installed June 09. They currently have 65,000 miles on them. The majority of the miles have been commuting and I have towed six times with combined weights being between 10,000-21,300lbs. Non towing I have kept them at 68psi front and 63-65psi rear. If I tow light I don't change the pressures. If I tow in the 4000-8000lb range I up them to 73psi all the way around. Don't ask me where I came up with that number, I just grabbed it out of the air a while back. If I tow heavy they all get aired right up to 80psi. I don't rotate them on a normal schedule, I do it when I notice some feathering on the outside edges of the fronts. They are starting to show slight feathering so I will be rotating them them sometime this week.

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[Patty]

Awesome! Good to know and thanks for posting this. I put Dura Grapplers on my 2011 shortly after getting the truck. The tire dealer up here thought I was crazy for using this as a year round tire. Although it's probably not the best tire on ice and snow it's been very good so far and I like the tread as well as the highway designation. This is pretty much a fairweather truck that I bought for towing. Unfortunately I don't get to drive my CTD as much as I'd like as I have a 2011 1500 Laramie (with Terra Grapplers on it) for daily business use, so it will take me years to get the mileage you have reached.

 

[NavyDood]

Awesome! Good to know and thanks for posting this. I put Dura Grapplers on my 2011 shortly after getting the truck. The tire dealer up here thought I was crazy for using this as a year round tire. Although it's probably not the best tire on ice and snow it's been very good so far and I like the tread as well as the highway designation. This is pretty much a fairweather truck that I bought for towing. Unfortunately I don't get to drive my CTD as much as I'd like as I have a 2011 1500 Laramie (with Terra Grapplers on it) for daily business use, so it will take me years to get the mileage you have reached.

They are awesome tires in the snow IMO. In 4wd they laughed at the 14+ inches of snow we got in MD February 2010, and that included venturing around on the unplowed streets. To really test them I drove in 2wd some of the time just to see how the tires would handle/perform. They did pretty darn good especially after I loaded the bed with snow.

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[LRutigliano]

Thanks for the post. I put Dura Grapplers (LT285/70-17E) on my truck after wearing out the Bridgestone REVOs in 10k miles...

 

[Patty]

They are awesome tires in the snow IMO. In 4wd they laughed at the 14+ inches of snow we got in MD February 2010, and that included venturing around on the unplowed streets. To really test them I drove in 2wd some of the time just to see how the tires would handle/perform. They did pretty darn good especially after I loaded the bed with snow.



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Good to know! Designated "winter tires" are very popular up here... that's what I was comparing to. I'm not a fan of having to change tires seasonly either, although I do it on my wifes AWD car as she's not a fan of winter roads. Having some weight in the back is definitely the key to traction on a pickup... or use 4x4.

 

[Prairie Dog]

I thought I was having a deja vu moment but I guess I just spent too much time on RV. Net today!

 

[NavyDood]

I thought I was having a deja vu moment but I guess I just spent too much time on RV. Net today!

LoL. I posted this on the four forums that I am a regular on.

 

[Prairie Dog]

LoL. I posted this on the four forums that I am a regular on.

Well I tell your what, any load range E tire that you can get more than 50K out of is news worthy!

 

[MChrist]

That's awesome! I don't think I'll get the same miles on mine, maybe a bit less. Mine is all stop and go miles, very little highway. Also, I run my tires lower psi. . around 55-60 front and 50 in the rear. I found that it softens the ride quite a bit, and I still have very even tread wear across the tire.
I found that once my tires got down to where yours are now, I lost some wet weather traction.
Once the factory sipes are gone, you can sipe them again using a siping tool to regain traction in the rain comparable to when they were new. Maybe a tire dealer like Les Schwab will sipe them, too.
I also used a regrooving tool to remove that little connector that runs between the tread blocks, since I still have to drive on damp lawns quite a bit. This gives the tire more bite, since the sipes probably won't help in that particular situation.

Looks like you have another 10,000 miles, hopefully.
Thanks for the update!

 

[AaronOregon]

Good to know! Will be looking this summer. Thanks for the post... ... .

 

[NavyDood]

Newest pics just taken yesterday after my 2600 mile round trip to IN and back to TX. I rotated the tires approx 2 months ago and they now have 72,600 miles on them.

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[Bernie]

I have no idea how you are getting that many miles out of those. I am ecstatic when I get 50k miles out of a set of Michelins. I will have to try a set of these next.

 

[AMink]

The best mileage so far was in the 40's with the OEM BFG Rugged Terrains. They would have gone further but I trashed one and just put on 4 new Pirelli Scorpions. They barely made it 25,000. I'm on Big O A/T's now and they won't make 30,000. To be fair, they are worn on the outside edge more than the inside. I've had the truck aligned twice in the last year and rotate every 5,000, but they're almost toast. I've to find out why they're wearing that way. I do drive on a lot of dirt roads so there are lots of micro cuts and a little chunking so I'm not hoping for 60,000, but it seems I should see at least 35-40,000.

I hate tires. #@$%!

 

[rbattelle]

Wow, thanks for the update Navydood. My stock Michelins look to be going well over 100k (assuming I don't pop one) and while I'd like to move to a 285 size tire I couldn't bring myself to do it knowing life would be reduced with another brand.

Now these seem like a viable alternative.

Do you rotate the spare into the mix?

-Ryan

 

[NavyDood]

Do you rotate the spare into the mix?

-Ryan

I don't. I rotate front to rear and rear to front on the same side.

 

[MChrist]

How many 32nds of tread depth do you have left? Have you noticed any decrease in wet road traction yet?

 

[AH64ID]

You must not frequent any dirt roads, as I am pretty sure that is what kills my tires.

I wore about 35% off of a set of new take off OEM Michelin's in 7K miles last summer. No burn outs, racing, etc... about 50% towing at 15K GCW and LOTS of dirt roads.

 

[NavyDood]

How many 32nds of tread depth do you have left? Have you noticed any decrease in wet road traction yet?

Dunno. Haven't measured them. Wet traction is still very good. We just had a good rain this past week here in TX.

You must not frequent any dirt roads, as I am pretty sure that is what kills my tires.

I wore about 35% off of a set of new take off OEM Michelin's in 7K miles last summer. No burn outs, racing, etc... about 50% towing at 15K GCW and LOTS of dirt roads.

I drive dirt roads very little to none and very little pretty much just walked out the door.

 

[zzman]

I'm glad to see someone else had good mileage with the DURA.

My experiance with that tire was so good on the truck I put them on the trailer too. They lasted almost 2 years with 75k miles per year. Then 3 of them started to seperate when they got down to about 4-5/32.

Good tire and carries weight great.

 

[PParker32]

We finally sold our place here in Kalifornia, now get to move south of Carson City, NV. , or back to America as I tell everyone.

Today I had a set of Dura Grapplers installed. The stock Michelins were still "legal" with 69745, but it was time to go.