I had a set of general tires on my 2500 duramax for the last few
years, probably still had at least half or more of tread left, very
even wear. For the last maybe 5k or more miles I have had an
annoying vibration that I could not balance out. One tire had a
little bit of slipped belt. In the last few days what was an
annoyance turned into a major issue as in the truck felt like it was
going to shake apart. I had a set of Michelins LTX highway tires
that were ordered for my 2wd suburban but this truck needs tires now
as I am not sure if they will blow up at any minute or not. If I
ordered then for my 4wd truck I would have ordered the AT tires. Oh
well I don't go off road that much anyway exempt to load or unload
in the pasture and have got stuck several times with these
supposedly off road general tires when they should have easily got
me out. So my tire machine is still at the old house so in the 110
heat index I installed the Michelins on the truck. 2 of the Generals
had major bulge from slipped belts. The other 2 looked like possibly
they had the beginning of slipped belts but not sure. My spin
balanced has already been moved to the new shop so I did not balance
the wheels at all. On the ride home the Michelins were perfectly
smooth with no weights at all up to 70mph, which is as fast as I
went with the truck bed fully loaded with parts and the trailer
loaded with a 124. I'm going to pull the wheels back off tomorrow
and balance them but heck they just about don't need it. The
generals only had maybe 20k on them.
I had a set of generals on a 140 that developed a bulge in the side
wall bad on 1 tire and slightly on a couple others. I also had a set
on my 124 that I did not like but only had a few miles on then and
moved them over I the kids 124 and they did were not on there very
long before they had some problem.
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The Generals I've had on cars are no good in schnee. but they wear
decently and did not slipped belts. We will see how well the
michelins hold up in a few years. FWIW, the Michelins I've had all
came apart.
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