Attention: TDR Forum Junkies I have a craptacular set of 35x12. 5x17 Parnelli Jones tires on my 99 and they flat out suck. For the first couple thousand miles they handled so bad it was scary. Impossible to stay in one lane and tracked all over from any road imperfections. I had just taken off a set of 33 in Interco Trxus MT's. they ran for 30k, tracked well and were fairly quiet to boot. they also worked great in all conditions. The truck handled perfectly, rode smooth and tracked straight as an arrow. And the parnelli's have now begun cuppung severely. And no my truck didn't magically go out of alignment. The tires just SUCK!!!
Balancing them was an even funnier joke. I got them in and mounted them myself, put some Dynabead in them and that didn't work. Tried different amounts of the product and still couldn't get them to even out at any speed. Had them broken down. Cleaned out the dyna bead, spun the tires on the wheels and remounted then spin balanced them. Yeah, 18 oz on one, the rest we stopped putting on weights at 22 oz. Still effing SUCKED!!! So once again, rebalance. I tracked down a tire shop that would handle the 35's (Moore Hummer in Chantilly VA) and took them in there. They have a Hunter RFV 9700 balancer. Those guys checked the tires and wheels out then thried to balance them. Runout measurements of nearly an inch preclude any possible balancing. But after a couple of hours they got them close. They still beat the crap out of me and vibarate and track funny. I called the dealer and he said he wouldn't do anything. East Coast Tires was the dealer. That guy is a prick and I highly advise to stay away from him. I then called the manufacturer, he wouldn't do anything because ti wasthe dealers problem, sorry. Click.
The dealer busily began saying I didn't know what I was talking about and that big tires vibrate. Also that the shops I was using didn't know what the were doing etc... . Well, yeah, big tires do vibrate. the dozen or so sets of tires I have gone through in the 40 inch and up range have vibrated some. But they were at least ROUND! And they still didn't vibrate as much as these 35's.
I have never had such a bad customer relation experience as East Coast Tires and Parnelli Jones Incorporated.
Balancing them was an even funnier joke. I got them in and mounted them myself, put some Dynabead in them and that didn't work. Tried different amounts of the product and still couldn't get them to even out at any speed. Had them broken down. Cleaned out the dyna bead, spun the tires on the wheels and remounted then spin balanced them. Yeah, 18 oz on one, the rest we stopped putting on weights at 22 oz. Still effing SUCKED!!! So once again, rebalance. I tracked down a tire shop that would handle the 35's (Moore Hummer in Chantilly VA) and took them in there. They have a Hunter RFV 9700 balancer. Those guys checked the tires and wheels out then thried to balance them. Runout measurements of nearly an inch preclude any possible balancing. But after a couple of hours they got them close. They still beat the crap out of me and vibarate and track funny. I called the dealer and he said he wouldn't do anything. East Coast Tires was the dealer. That guy is a prick and I highly advise to stay away from him. I then called the manufacturer, he wouldn't do anything because ti wasthe dealers problem, sorry. Click.
The dealer busily began saying I didn't know what I was talking about and that big tires vibrate. Also that the shops I was using didn't know what the were doing etc... . Well, yeah, big tires do vibrate. the dozen or so sets of tires I have gone through in the 40 inch and up range have vibrated some. But they were at least ROUND! And they still didn't vibrate as much as these 35's.
I have never had such a bad customer relation experience as East Coast Tires and Parnelli Jones Incorporated.
