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Re: What Kinda of Rubber you got on?

Reply #30 –
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Never had good luck with BFGs, donno why...


Realy I have always had good luck with BFG's. I have quite a few miles on my G Force T/A's never had a problem with them. The set that is on my cougar were on my Mark VII. I have around 30,000 on them from the lincoln and another 10,000 from the cougar. They are just now in need of replacement.

Now the Goodyear's that come on the 01-04 Mustangs are garbage. One of the guys I work with has them and they only have about 10,000 on them and the fronts, yes I said the front tires are almost bald. Anyone know anything about those tires.

Re: What Kinda of Rubber you got on?

Reply #31 –
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Never had good luck with BFGs, donno why...


Realy I have always had good luck with BFG's. I have quite a few miles on my G Force T/A's never had a problem with them. The set that is on my cougar were on my Mark VII. I have around 30,000 on them from the lincoln and another 10,000 from the cougar. They are just now in need of replacement.

Now the Goodyear's that come on the 01-04 Mustangs are garbage. One of the guys I work with has them and they only have about 10,000 on them and the fronts, yes I said the front tires are almost bald. Anyone know anything about those tires.

Re: What Kinda of Rubber you got on?

Reply #32 –
LOL, those are goodyear gatorbacks, those tires were the shiznit back in the 80s.  My Cougar had them new, along with Testarossas, Vettes, Mustangs, Turbo Coupes, IROCs, GTAs, etc...he musta had them overinflated or something, mine were good for 20,000.  Great tires in the 1980s, pretty useless these days.  Can you say out of date? :)

EDIT: well the G-forces do have nice grip, maybe the ones I got are duds somehow.  I'll talk to tirerack after the semester ends and see what's up.
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Re: What Kinda of Rubber you got on?

Reply #33 –
Goodyear Eagle F1's are awesome though. My buddy had them OE on his '00 Lightning. Average life is about 20K miles. When it came time to replace them he was torn because he never believed in Goodyear tires that much. Well, he ended up with 4 brand new F1's.

Jeeves, BFG's have had some spotty problems from what I heard. Maybe you just got a bad set or something.

Re: What Kinda of Rubber you got on?

Reply #34 –
You're probably right about the BFGs, Eric.  Though we had a set of Comp TAs on our previous 1985 Tbird, they were like these ones, two of them eventually blew a la Firestones on a Ford Explorer. So this is not a cool coincidence for me.

I have yet to see a Goodyear tire that was worth its asking price.  The puppiesanese and Koreans make better stuff for less (esp the Koreans) and the Italians and French outdo them on the higher end stuff.
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Re: What Kinda of Rubber you got on?

Reply #35 –
I had a set of BFG radial t/a's on my original 14'' wheels and I was not very impressed.  They were loud and didn't wear all that well...I'm not really sure why they are so popular other than that they were the popular tire and probably one of the first radials back in the day.
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Re: What Kinda of Rubber you got on?

Reply #36 –
I've got Bridgestone Turanza Z-Revo 225/60ZR15's all around. They ran about $130 a tire, but had the highest wet-weather traction rating I could find that fit my turbines. I used to run Eagle Aquatreds in the same size, but Goodyear stopped making ones that fit my rims.

I also have a set of four Pirelli Winter 210 Asymmetrico tires for the winter, but since I picked up a used Explorer a few years ago I haven't had any need to put them on. They were about the same price, and I picked them because they were the only H-rated winter tires available. It doesn't snow all that much around here so most of the time in the winter the roads are either dry or icy.

When I originally bought my turbines (a guy with a Mustang was selling them) they came with his stock Goodyear Gatorbacks and a pair of Goodyear M+S snow tires. The Gatorbacks were utter  in the rain and it was impossible to not hydroplane on them (hence my choice of Eagle Aquatreds). The Aquatreds just about keep you nailed to the ground in the rain, but they wear out real fast (and the widest they ever made were 225mm).
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Re: What Kinda of Rubber you got on?

Reply #37 –
I had BFG Radial T/A's as pictured in my sig. These tire sucked. I spun all the time on wet roads and forget about driving in the snow. Recently put on a set of BFG Traction T/A's and they have been great so far. Excellent in the rain and good in the snow plus more responsive on dry than the Radial T/A's. I'm using the stock 225/60R/15 size all the way around.
 

Re: What Kinda of Rubber you got on?

Reply #38 –
I was happy with Goodyear Eagle GT+4's in 225/60-HR15 until they quit making them in that size.  Replaced them with Eagle HP's, & they were about the same except they squalled to high heaven when stressed (the GT's made little noise at all except the drone from the scalloping).  I have new BFG Radial TA's on the front now, & they seem OK, but they don't seem to have the quick steering response & recovery that the Goodyears had.