Tires on tow vehicle wearing out

Do you notice that your truck tires wear out faster when you are towing a 5th wheel or trailer?
My tires are 10 ply and have 10000 miles on them and seem to be wearing out. They are wearing even but the tread is going away. I keep 60 in front and 80 in rear on my diesel 2500 Chevy, crew cab. Of those 10,000 miles only 4,000 are with my 5th wheel and the rest are around towns and side trips. Any ideas besides maybe the tires are soft tires? I have been on the road since 3/4 going to Alaska, if that makes a difference.

Thanks, Tom

Yes, my tires wear faster with RV pulling. I have noticed that with every RV and TV I have had. Rear tires will wear faster than front, and will need rotating sooner than without towing.

I currently have quadra steer and that wears rear tires even more.

I have noted a difference in tire brands as well. For my vehicles, goodyear Wranglers seem to wear faster than most others. Also the more aggressive the tread, the faster the wear.

Yes, they do wear faster and the rear tires will wear faster than the front ones. Your rear tires are carrying the load of the trailer, and the weight of the hitch and fuel. That's why it's so important to rotate the tires.

I rotate the tires every 5000 miles. Should that be okay? How many miles do you get out of set if towing all the time like we are?

Thanks for the info

Tom

I try to rotate every 5000 miles but often get caught when traveling on a long trip with more miles before I can find a goodplace to rotate.

I ave gotten as little as 32K miles up to about 40K with 70-80% tow miles. I also will trade early rather than take a chance.

We only have 32k miles on our truck, and the rear tires are about 20% while the front are 60%. We have ordered Michelin 275/70R18 tires that have a 70k road warranty. I did not rotate our tires, but will with this new set. Most of the miles on our truck are pulling the WC, so hence the rear wearing out faster.

Rotate every 5000. Ford recommends 50 - 80. I have found out 60 - 64/80 works much better

I made a mistake my tires have 27,000 miles on them not 10,000. Senior moment!! seemed like 10,000 to me:) So they are probably good for another couple of thousand. So I guess 30,000 isn't to bad when towing cross country.

On my 04.5 CTD my tires lasted an average of 40K miles.

The OEM tires were Goodyear "E" rated All Terrains and were replaced at 38K. That was after towing about 18K miles in 04, 05 and 06.

I replaced the GY's with Michelin "E" rated Highways in 07 and drove another 50K with them. I towed approximately 25K with them.

I replaced the M's in 09 with the same Michelin "E" rateds and sold the truck in November of 2010 with 118K on the truck and about 15K of towing during those two seasons.

So, including the original OEM's that was 3 sets of "E" rated sneakers in 118K miles with about 58K of towing during those years.

BTW, the last set of Michelins still had good rubber on them after 30K miles. I also think that there is a big difference in the lasting ability of a highway tread over an all terrain tread.

Also, during those years about half of my driving was towing the 29RLBS.

Course we all know that RAM CTD's are easy on tires.

Yes,,, Ram's are easy on tires. I hear that on a wet slippery muddy day, a ram can almost spin one tire.

Maxtor wrote:Yes,,, Ram's are easy on tires. I hear that on a wet slippery muddy day, a ram can almost spin one tire.

Scruffy and I were discussing our truck tires this morning. The truck came with Pirelli tires and they had 50,000 miles on them when we got them replaced. They still looked good, but Scruffy was getting a bit nervous about the miles and thought it would be a good idea to replace them.

Maxtor wrote:Yes,,, Ram's are easy on tires. I hear that on a wet slippery muddy day, a ram can almost spin one tire.

Nope, tires only slip on wet, slippery, muddy days because the fool on the throttle doesn't know how to drive in those conditions. But of course, fools don't own Rams, only coniseurs of real trucks do.

Aah, I just figured it out... You guys on the east coast have all the snow, "New Hampshire, Maryland, etc." ,therefore, you need to drive a Ram, because you can't spin the tires, even in the snow...Out here on the left coast, you can use the power of a Ford...Where is Tom?? he needs to help you on this,, maybe he is broke down and can't get to his computer....

90 percent of the chevys are still on the road today. The other 10 percent made it home and the 90 percent were towed home by Fords.

Hey Dan;

Good one...

Thank you.