Welder Dave
Senior Member
Nokian are supposed to be pretty good too but lots are made in Russia. Tire shop said only 1 customer has had a problem with this. I'm guessing a lot of customers don't question where their tires come from.
I find the BFGs wear fast if you don't rotate, and once they start uneven wear that's it. They are not real good in snow as well. They started putting Micheline on the work trucks as they seem to outlast anything. My personal vehicle, I went with goodyear duratracs. Every truck I have seen, even the ones that are completely worn out, are worn even. I don't put many miles on, maybe 5000km per season, I have winters mounted on rims, so might as well use them. One of the work trucks had them, and they were toast at 86000 kms, but they were all evenly worn.
That happened when Michelin took them over and changed the tire compound. It's been corrected and I still get 150,000ks out of them which makes them the cheapest tire.I remember the BFG tire recalls some years back that seriously affected a lot of people who had to sue for compensation on tires that failed causing accidents. The mess was bad enough in my eyes to swear of that brand forever.
The Chinese don't have a good reputation and it's a little odd the Russian tires aren't banned like most other products from Russia. It could be there are a lot of tires in warehouses that have been there a year or more. I don't know how they'd even get tires out of Russia.