Josh
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As much as I drive my truck, Im replacing my NDTS about every 6 months on the front of my truck. I need to get a good set of radials and the ideal set up for me would be 14.5xls in the front and dualed 11r20xls in the rear. As I'm keeping my options open and not apposed to supersingling out, I'm trying to find someone who has driven a truck with both 15.5s and 395s, both onroad and offroad. I searched for about an hour every thread on singles I could find, but I was unable to locate one that compaired the traction and wear of the two different tread patterns.
I know both are an improvement over there stock NDTS ( Im not really doing bigger tires for speed, but so I dont have to get a new set of tires for my truck every 6 months).
My truck is my daily driver and when I got the truck a year and a half ago, it had 36kish miles on it, right now she is hovering around 47k and I am on my 3rd set of front tires with aprox 40-50% tread left, and my second set of rear tires(aprox 40-60%). All front tires where tread depth messured at 95% or better, and the second set where brand new never been mounted.
I've considered a set of firestone T831s also in the 11r20 size as I know they are a good onroad/offroad tire, but I have been unable to locate a wider tires in the t831 tread that are the same hight as the 11r20s.
The reason for the wider front tires is that I take my deuce to the sand alot. I would estimate at least 500 miles have been put on my deuce just in the sand. While airing the NDTs to 15psi makes the truck go pretty good soons I hit anything that resembles a hill, the front end likes to bury itself.
I know super singles are superior to duals in the offroad world but, but I'm trying to figure out what the best comprimise for the on road longevity vs the offroad capability.
So what realworld experiances have ya guys got. I appolgize if what I wrote is confusing, I've always had issues with explaining something that makes perfect sense to me, but confuses the **** out of the other person.
Also if I went singles, I'd get them when my current tires wear out, and if I could afford it at the time I'd get recentere hemtt rims. If the rims are out of the budget, then I'd place them on stock rims until I could afford hemtts.
Thanks.
I know both are an improvement over there stock NDTS ( Im not really doing bigger tires for speed, but so I dont have to get a new set of tires for my truck every 6 months).
My truck is my daily driver and when I got the truck a year and a half ago, it had 36kish miles on it, right now she is hovering around 47k and I am on my 3rd set of front tires with aprox 40-50% tread left, and my second set of rear tires(aprox 40-60%). All front tires where tread depth messured at 95% or better, and the second set where brand new never been mounted.
I've considered a set of firestone T831s also in the 11r20 size as I know they are a good onroad/offroad tire, but I have been unable to locate a wider tires in the t831 tread that are the same hight as the 11r20s.
The reason for the wider front tires is that I take my deuce to the sand alot. I would estimate at least 500 miles have been put on my deuce just in the sand. While airing the NDTs to 15psi makes the truck go pretty good soons I hit anything that resembles a hill, the front end likes to bury itself.
I know super singles are superior to duals in the offroad world but, but I'm trying to figure out what the best comprimise for the on road longevity vs the offroad capability.
So what realworld experiances have ya guys got. I appolgize if what I wrote is confusing, I've always had issues with explaining something that makes perfect sense to me, but confuses the **** out of the other person.
Also if I went singles, I'd get them when my current tires wear out, and if I could afford it at the time I'd get recentere hemtt rims. If the rims are out of the budget, then I'd place them on stock rims until I could afford hemtts.
Thanks.