'03 3500 DRW Goodyear tires

[Bill Stockard]

If you tow or haul heavy loads, you need to keep a close watch on your tires. This is what a friend's ‘03 3500 DRW with Goodyear Wrangler SR-A tires looked like after 25,000 miles. He vigilantly maintains the air pressure in the tires while hauling his Lance camper or towing his Hitchhiker 5th wheel.



Goodyear warranted all his the tires and replaced them with Wrangler GS-A which they said were the only replacement available. He had to pay for the tread wear, mounting & balancing, and taxes.



Bill



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[RMcCulloch]

Since replacement RS-A's didn't seem to be available, could it be that they're having problems with them?



FWIW, I keep a close watch on my GS-A's and haven't seen any problems so far...

 

[yogibear]

I had the same thing happen to mine, but didn't discover it till 87K. They gave me a good price for trade, 66. 00 off 177. 00. Goodyear said they had a bad batch of tires, didn't cure right. I would have gotten 100K+ on them. Took them 5 days to get me a set to Goodyear dlr. in Ks. , only one who had them in stock was DC. Didn't have much choice but to go with Goodyear, since they are the only one making the 235x80xr17.



Larry

 

[frijole]

Goodyear makes great Indy tires!

Everything else they make is crap. I have a set of GS-A on my dually, rock-chuckin missle throwers, no traction in snow, just absolute junk. Can't wait to get rid of them... .

 

[Kmac]

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I'm in the same situation!!! I'm not very happy with the folks at goodyear! I've got two tires that look just like the picture above, although no white letters for me. SRA's just the same. After shuffling tires around, two new on steering axel, I find out that two more are seperating. I too take excellent care of my tires. Rotation every 5k, check air pressure daily (use my truck to haul vehicles commercialy- inspect my truck daily when out on the road). Had to use the spare & my local tire guy just happend to have one sitting in his shop. A stroke of luck... ... I can understand a bad tire or two,... but when you are forced to buy the only tire in the world that fits these rims for this application you shold not have to wait 5 days to get it shipped in so you can go along your merry way! I looked into going with Rickson 19. 5 rims and 225's commercial but just don't have the green to make that fly right now. So I'm forced into "GOOD MONEY AFTER BAD" for Goodyear tires. Goodyear offered me $50 per tire... gee tnxs... ... . Retail cost for new... . $180 each!:{ ... . And I need 4 new ones... ... ..... Just ain't Right!!!

 

[Ol'TrailDog]

Thanks for the warning !



So far I've been happy with the GY GSAs. Especially, since I don't have much choice

 

[Kmac]

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I'm in the same situation!!! I'm not very happy with the folks at goodyear! I've got two tires that look just like the picture above, although no white letters for me. SRA's just the same. After shuffling tires around, two new on steering axel, I find out that two more are seperating. I too take excellent care of my tires. Rotation every 5k, check air pressure daily (use my truck to haul vehicles commercialy- inspect my truck daily when out on the road). Had to use the spare & my local tire guy just happend to have one sitting in his shop. A stroke of luck... ... I can understand a bad tire or two,... but when you are forced to buy the only tire in the world that fits these rims for this application you shold not have to wait 5 days to get it shipped in so you can go along your merry way! I looked into going with Rickson 19. 5 rims and 225's commercial but just don't have the green to make that fly right now. So I'm forced into "GOOD MONEY AFTER BAD" for Goodyear tires. Goodyear offered me $50 per tire... gee tnxs... ... . Retail cost for new... . $180 each!:{ ... . And I need 4 new ones... ... ..... Just ain't Right!!!

 

[EB]

Same thing happened to me, am on the second set with about 35k on them, so far so good.

 

[CAKUZ]

GOOD (for nothing) YEAR TIRES !

I think the no choice but the Good Year Tires on the 3rd gen dually Rams sucks. I have had many problems with them on both cars and pick-up trucks that I have owned over the past 45 years, such as wear out fast, wear un-even, cup out bad, hard to keep balanced and come apart like we see above. NEVER had any good service with Good Year tires. I keep a quality tire gauge and keep my tires properly inflated and rotate every 5 - 6 K miles.



I also got the sorry Good Year AT-S on my 95 2500 CTD that I ordered new. They had 16,750 miles on them when I replaced them with Michelin. The Michelin had over 50,000 miles when I sold the truck and had more tread and were in better shape than the Good Year had with less than 17,000.



Has anyone found any other 17" tires that work good on our Dually's ?



I am hoping Michelin will come out with some 17" tires for our Duallys soon as I sure as h##l will not waste my money on another Good Year set. Will go to the 19. 5 first.



I have also wrote letters to DC expressing my extreme dis-like of not having a choice of any other tires than sorry Good Year that they must get "super cheap". :--)

 

[Udaloy]

So, are the GSA's the optional "off-road" tire for DC?

 

[doldenburg]

im very happy with my goodyears. my 04. 5 came with piece of ***** generals, un acceptabile. dealer changed them off another truck for me-thanks tom- so some other poor ******* got stuck with them

 

[bpenrod]

My 03 3500 SRW came with BF Goodrich Rugged Trails on it. They seem to work better than the Goodyears I have had in the past. It surprised me and the dealer that it had BFG's on it!

 

[Bill Stockard]

Sidewall Cracks!

I have a little over 10,000 miles on my truck with 95% of the miles hauling the Lance camper. The cracks shown in the photo on my original post are just starting to show up on one tire. I rotated the tires yesterday and saw it. I have been watching the tires very closely for the cracks to appear. It was on the inside passenger side dual which has had 80 PSI in it since I took delivery of the truck in May of 2003. None of the other tires have any signs of cracking around the sidewall... probably just a matter of time!



I had these same type of cracks on the original equipment Goodyear tires in my '92 D350 years ago, but those tires had in excess of 70,000 miles on them when they started cracking!



Bill

 

[TCDiesel]

Tires

Goodyear has never lied, their good for a year.

 

[GerryDrake]

Originally posted by Udaloy

So, are the GSA's the optional "off-road" tire for DC?

Just went out and looked at mine... Yup. GS-A



... as I recall it was something on the order of $150 or so 'upgrade' . . I bought it off the lot, so didn't have a choice, so didn't matter much. . They seem to work fine for me, and the wear so far at 15K, about 50% towing, doesn't seem too bad.