Careful buying Atturo tires

[Jason94sport]

Their quality control SUCKS!!!! Cheap tires & they perform great, but out of round & bad belts. Just put them on my X & in 3 days been back to the tire shop 4 times. They are ordering a new set of 4. Hopefully those are good. If not I'll need t pony up the cash for name brands. Shame cause these were $96/each compered to $180+

 

[Fix4Dirt]

Their quality control SUCKS!!!! Cheap tires & they perform great, but out of round & bad belts. Just put them on my X & in 3 days been back to the tire shop 4 times. They are ordering a new set of 4. Hopefully those are good. If not I'll need t pony up the cash for name brands. Shame cause these were $96/each compered to $180+

ive run atturo once with no issue but maybe i lucked out

 

[fordawin]

Yikes, that's a nightmare. Hope the new set is better!

 

[DintDobbs]

Cheap tires are bad tires, period. Cough up once for good quality, or cough up a bunch of times for higher numbers of bad quality. What's $1000 for a set of decent tires? I can't afford unreliability and down time.

 

[allmyEXes]

Atturo Trail Blade X/T not DOT approved.

 

[410Fortune]

Cheap tires extremely hard to balance like a 235 tire should not be 2.5oz out

We have a tire balancer now and once you balance your own tires you will see the cheapos are not worth the rubber they stamped them with

Tires made in USA or Japan for the win
Made in Indonesia not so much

 

[toobladink]

Cheap tires are bad tires, period. Cough up once for good quality, or cough up a bunch of times for higher numbers of bad quality. What's $1000 for a set of decent tires? I can't afford unreliability and down time.

Yup. Tires are super important and I think going cheap, or even "budget" (like I did a few years ago) is not good. I haven't hit the mileage warranty yet, but these Fuzion tires I got somehow managed to have part of a lug rip off. Especially with how heavy an explorer is compared to a sedan or hatchback, you should spend good money on a good set. Even $150 per tire isn't great if we're gonna go off my set haha. I got these so long ago that I probably paid about $120. I probably won't ever buy a set for less than $200, MAYBE $180 a tire again. It seems like you really get what you pay for. Thankfully there are lots of options now, BFG seems really popular where I live.

 

[Jason94sport]

Oh I agree......
Secondary vehicle see's 4K miles/year if that. May sell it in a year. I did not want to spend tons of $$ in tires. I did that already this year. $1700 on my Corvette. The EB V8 are the bigger 17's rims & rim size make them more expensive. Cheapest I could find at the shop was Goodyear HW tires @ 188. All the SUV tires are over $200. This isn't 10 years ago.
If I have too I have too but I figured I'd try. I did research & the AT's I got are highly rated & generally ok from most of everyone I saw. Except the quality control.

 

[toypaseo]

With my Explorer, I always bought name brand tires. As for the spare, I have a Fusion tire like @toobladink, but it’s been ran a few times, no problem.

Local tire dealer here told me all these mystery brand tires available might wear out faster, but I never heard of balancing problems…

 

[DintDobbs]

Not a fan of BFG's personally; the tread patterns and hard rubber aren't my style. If they work for you, use 'em. Firestone, Goodyear, Nitto, and their lower-priced branches are good picks. Primewell is a division of Firestone and I had good results with the set of Valera H/T's that came on my '00 Limited when I got it, but swapped to Maxxis Razr AT-811's due to uneven tread wear and a mismatched spare. The Maxxis were cheaper than comparable tread patterns by other brands, but I can't speak for the long term, as I have only had them for just over a year and less than 5k miles. They're super great for sand, if anybody cares.

 

[Jason94sport]

Retract my last statement. These tires are GOING! Death wobble at 80! Putting on Geolander AT's. Last 2 Explorers had them. Do what I have to do.

 

[DintDobbs]

@Jason94sport That's the right thing to do. Cheap tires are bad. The end.

 

[toypaseo]

@Jason94sport well that sucks.

If you really want to try to keep them, find a place with a Hunter Road Force Balancer GSP9700. When I had troubles balancing some used tires from Discount Tire on eBay, they recommended finding that machine, since I was too far away from a close Discount Tire. They offered to reimburse rebalance fees as well. Did find a place, and no issues after that.

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[Jason94sport]

It was discount tire. They did that. I'm not going to continue with the headaches. Already been 3 trips.

 

[Josh P]

I like to use plastic balancing beads. The thing with some of the cheap tires is, they will substitute some of the natural rubber content for plastic or additional synthetic rubber. It will wear faster and as seen on the Chinese car crash videos on YouTube, easy to lose control at low speeds on wet roads. Front wheel drive cars spinning 180 degrees making low speed turns.