PETLAS Has anyone tried these tires?

[camarossguy2]

I used A/c o-rings to center the wheel faces, worked great IMO.
To balance, I set them out in the sun at 50psi for a few hours.
Then i let the air out and rotated the tires on the wheels while on the balancer. Basically this allowed to put the light spot on the tire where either the heavy spot Or highspot was on the rim. I meassure the runout around 1-2mm max on all the wheels, but matching them up significantly reduced the amount of weight i had to use. in one case, 16.7 oz down to 9.25. The rest were in the 4-8oz range.
All balanced to 0oz, and run great up to 75.
Total cost for the tires was $1579 and the 24 bolts were $399. Im pleased

I made an install/test/initial review video

 

[Mogman]

I finally scratched together enough coin to get another tire to replace one of the tires I ruined.
The tire came without its inventory sticker, only a shipping label, it looked to at least to have been handled allot and possibly already mounted
Took it out and one tire was beating me up fairly good to I ran down to Discount Tire in Portland (they have tire lifts on all the balancing machines, pretty cool)
Well it was no surprise the one causing the problem was the newest one.... it took 17 oz to balance it, all the others took less than 6 oz, one only 2.5 oz.

All the tires but the spare (last and least damaged one) ran true on the balancer and the truck now cruises as smooth as silk, they are a little louder than the Baja tires and the growling (vibration) at 20-25MPH is more pronounced but that may change with some wear.

I just do not like the idea that I am getting someone else's castoff, I have contacted Simple Tire to see what their policy is on this.

They do look badass compared to the Bajas.
A little black paint will hide the weights, going to wait until I hear from ST first.

 

[camarossguy2]

I finally scratched together enough coin to get another tire to replace one of the tires I ruined.
The tire came without its inventory sticker, only a shipping label, it looked to at least to have been handled allot and possibly already mounted
Took it out and one tire was beating me up fairly good to I ran down to Discount Tire in Portland (they have tire lifts on all the balancing machines, pretty cool)
Well it was no surprise the one causing the problem was the newest one.... it took 17 oz to balance it, all the others took less than 6 oz, one only 2.5 oz.

All the tires but the spare (last and least damaged one) ran true on the balancer and the truck now cruises as smooth as silk, they are a little louder than the Baja tires and the growling (vibration) at 20-25MPH is more pronounced but that may change with some wear.

I just do not like the idea that I am getting someone else's castoff, I have contacted Simple Tire to see what their policy is on this.

They do look badass compared to the Bajas.
A little black paint will hide the weights, going to wait until I hear from ST first.
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That sucks, I would contact them and ask them.
I mean if it has evidence of being installed, just let them know it had evidence of being installed before you put it on. (Or don't even mention that you installed it yet)

I think I found on mine that the main culprit of an imbalance was the rim being slightly out of round. I mean if you have 1 mm of run out, on a standard 18 inch sports car tire that can easily be corrected by 1 oz.
But there's just so much material on these off-road tires, a 1 mm run out means there's quite a bit of rubber 20 inches away from the center to be counterbalanced.

Maybe check that particular wheels run out again?

 

[Mogman]

That sucks, I would contact them and ask them.
I mean if it has evidence of being installed, just let them know it had evidence of being installed before you put it on. (Or don't even mention that you installed it yet)

I think I found on mine that the main culprit of an imbalance was the rim being slightly out of round. I mean if you have 1 mm of run out, on a standard 18 inch sports car tire that can easily be corrected by 1 oz.
But there's just so much material on these off-road tires, a 1 mm run out means there's quite a bit of rubber 20 inches away from the center to be counterbalanced.

Maybe check that particular wheels run out again?

That rim was checked and it had .015 and .020" (.5mm) radial runout, the standard for a 16.5" steel wheel is .050" max.
Also when spun up all but the one damaged tire ran true on the balancer.
Some of the others had a little more and a little less than this rim, IIRC (and they are marked) the "worst" one I picked to use was .025"

I am sorry but I don't believe those little o rings are going to have much effect when crushing the wheel halves together, what I did was chamfer 6 of the 24 holes and used tapered lug nuts to assemble, then changed them out for flanged nuts after assembly, I got very repeatable results, I would change the clocking until the inside rim runout was at a min. then stamped the stud that would be next to the valve stem with an X so it could easily be re-clocked in the same position.

I went through 9 rims and picked the best ones, a couple were well outside the max radial runout.

 

[Mogman]

Simple tire said to start the process of returning that tire for a replacement, interesting seeing they do not show any in stock, waiting on the next boat from Turkey

 

[Mogman]

I am leaning towards just keeping the tire and getting another one when they become available again to replace the last one I damaged, I am concerned that Simple tire does not show any stock on these and I may not be able to get a replacement, the tire is running smooth so I may just put it as spare when I get another.

 

[Mogman]

Brand new tire

 

[Mullaney]

Brand new tire

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Wow and DangIt! . . .
Maybe a patch rather than a plug?

 

[Mogman]

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Wow and DangIt! . . .
Maybe a patch rather than a plug?

Yea, I will have to break it down and take it to ye-ol tire shop.

 

[Milcommoguy]

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Wow and DangIt! . . .
Maybe a patch rather than a plug?

Or a nut and washer.......
Who you calling a NUT, CAMO

 

[Autonomy_Lost]

Yea, I will have to break it down and take it to ye-ol tire shop.

I've had really good results using the generic tire plug kits that look like this:



I've probably patched two dozen tires with these throughout my life, and I've never ever had a patch leak even after tens of thousands of miles.

 

[Mogman]

I've had really good results using the generic tire plug kits that look like this:

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I've probably patched two dozen tires with these throughout my life, and I've never ever had a patch leak even after tens of thousands of miles.

Thanks, I own a ranch in S TX, you can't swing a dead Rattlesnake around here without hitting a plug kit.
Those are great for when you get bathed in tire sealant from that large thorn hole (yes they are that big) in the front tire on your tractor.
IMHO the only way to patch any radial tire and especially a steel belted radial tire (not relevant in this case) is a plug/patch.

 

[Milcommoguy]

Yea, I will have to break it down and take it to ye-ol tire shop.

Any excuse to take Diggy Dog for a ride and get a fortune cookie.

As the "Wheel Turns" on channel SS in Texas, CAMO

 

[TNDRIVER]

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Wow and DangIt! . . .
Maybe a patch rather than a plug?

Mushroom plug, inserted from the inside.

 

[Mogman]

Any excuse to take Diggy Dog for a ride and get a fortune cookie.

As the "Wheel Turns" on channel SS in Texas, CAMO

HA, HA
No I did the Chinese yesterday, I try and limit to about twice a week.
No, today I have to go do my civic duty and then stop by DQ and get Diggy Dog a chocolate malt and me a pup cup, wait that does not sound right