ya i am looking too.

trying to find a 38x15.50x18
i had mickey thompsons on it but i guess they stopped making that tire in an 18 inch rim. so now i am looking at toyo or kuhmo. both are 500 bucks per tire.

so 2k just for some new rubber. f my life.

ya i wish. the cheapest i found was a set of toyos on ebay for 1700.  and that does not include shipping mounting or balancing

Just paid $120 for a full set of take offs. Got them off Craigslist still had the nubs on them, $12 bucks a wheel to swap to my rims.

New they are $900 out the door.

hey Marc, did you take it back to ProComp? I think they have a pretty good warranty. That looks like internal failure to me.

Just paid $120 for a full set of take offs. Got them off Craigslist still had the nubs on them, $12 bucks a wheel to swap to my rims.

New they are $900 out the door.

been watching CL....found some stuff....mostly takeoffs w/ 50% life left for like $500-$600.....few hundy more, i can get them for new. so why bother?

Big-O tires has these for $120/each.....reviews on various sites seem like they arent the best, but ok for the buck and get the job done.

http://www.bigotires.com/Tire%20Detail/FALKEN/STZ04/12514

I can get you these for $668 but you have to get them installed.

http://www.tirerack.com/tires/TireSearchResults.jsp?width=265/&ratio=70&diameter=18&startIndex=0&search=true&pagelen=20&pagenum=1&pagemark=1&manufacturer=Pirelli&x=17&y=2

Just DO NOT buy CHINESE tires

They will have on the sidewall where the tire was made, for ex.  made in the USA etc.

Just a little info on the chinese crap. I manage a plant that retreads truck tires. We do not retread chinese tires at all. Have tried to but they cant even make it through the machinery. The casings that do come in I can sell to Mexico for 5 bucks. The china crap wears like a pencil eraser, if they hold up. One example from a while back guy came in for 8 new truck tires, they were a lot of money to him so he passed, and went and bought chinese for maybe a third the price of the goodyears. Didnt make it out of town and blew one. Almost to Vegas and blew another.  On the return to cali, blew another. With 3 expensive road calls the price of the tires etc, he could of bought the goodyears and been WAY ahead.  Also they have had a BIG recall on thousands of passenger tires for a defect, they didnt put in a special layer of gum in between the belts, a good reason for them being cheaper. Hell they even recalled thousands of the little valve cores for defective reasons.  The CHEAP china crap really put a hurt on the US tire industry.

Kelly is a Dammnn GOOD tire, I might add

I had to do this when all you guys were at the last unofficial meet.    Called everywhere in town trying to get the OEM  BFG Rugged Trail T/A in a 17.   BigO was over 9 bills OTD.   I almost died.   And of course we have to order.   Nah I need 'em now.   At 45K two of them were badly checked/cracked and one blew out the inner sidewall which still looked new.  Go figger.

Anyhow after doing the internet deal, WISHING Marc wasn't at the river    I ended up with USA made Dunlops with a 20K better warranty for about $420 for only 2.   Put the new ones on the back as I was pulling the boat to Tahoe in 4 days.   Now the front end wanders like a mutha fugga.   It was better actually towing, and it is getting better as they wear in, but its been a PITA.   

I don't know how some of you ballers do it.   

Dunlop, another Goodyear made tire. I know what ya mean Marc. The distance Tire prices are going thru the roof. Even the tread rubber we use is getting ridiculous, price wise.  Mostly because the price ofr natural rubber, and carbon black are soaring, and who do ya think is buying the crap outa it.....china