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Will never buy BFG's again!

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#1 ·
I bought my wife some used BFG A/T's about 6 weeks ago, they had about 80% tread on them and was in good shape, held air and balanced nice. Well last night she comes home and says one of them is leaking so I go look and there was wire strands sticking out of the tire where a belt broke. I just sent her to get some new Cooper ST's...IMO a far better tire, I had them before and they take a lickin and keep on tickin. 4 new tires $530 installed with road hazzard. Tires is the last thing I want to worry about when she has all the kids doing 70mph down the highway!
 
#12 ·
i found half a subway sandwich in the garbage earlier, tasted terrible! i told my woman to go find me a big mac, never getting subway again.
 
#15 ·
Yes they was used but not that used, like I said they had a good 80% tread and came on aluminum wheels that did not show any signs of curb damage...even if someone did hit a curb with one IMO they should hold up they are an off road tire and supposed to handle some abuse.

I WILL NEVER BUY USED BFG'S AGAIN!!! :sonicjay:
 
#29 ·
Scrapped them, if I would have known ya wanted them I would have gave them to you. Call Tuffy in GR Fuller street, that's the place we got new tires at and they have the old ones.

We went and bought the 4 new Cooper discoverer ST's...I know these are good tires because I had them before.
 
#31 ·
Not trying to back up BFG A/T's, but I had a set on my ranger with 2 nails in my front driverside tire, 2 in my read driverside, and 1 in my passenger side, and they all held air, they were great, my dad had them, his friends had them and were all happy with them and recently bought a new set. I have had no problems with them, but maybe I was just lucky. I now have a set of Goodyear Wrangler Duratrac, and love them, they are very nice tires have a little over 100 miles on them so cant tell you how they wear, but they ride about as rough as the BFG A/T's and go through some snow, havent been able to test them in the mud due to the snow, but that is what the spring is for!
 
#32 ·
I bought my wife some used BFG A/T's about 6 weeks ago, they had about 80% tread on them and was in good shape, held air and balanced nice. Well last night she comes home and says one of them is leaking so I go look and there was wire strands sticking out of the tire where a belt broke. I just sent her to get some new Cooper ST's...IMO a far better tire, I had them before and they take a lickin and keep on tickin. 4 new tires $530 installed with road hazzard. Tires is the last thing I want worry about when she has all the kids doing 70mph down the highway!
thanks for yet another fuckin stuiped public service announcement:finger:
 
#33 ·
My truck came with Uniroyal Tiger Paws and I had terrible luck with them. One tire had a belt seperate. 2 others got bubbles in them. I will never buy a Uniroyal tire as long as I live.

On the other hand I switched to BFG A/Ts and have had nothing but luck...even buying a used set for the wife's Jeep. I have had them on my truck over 15 years and on my Jeep since I bought it in 2003 and have never had a flat or tread seperation or bubble or any problem whatsoever. I'm sorry to hear that you got a bad one.
 
#34 ·
On my previous DD I had a pair of BFG Traction TA's.... I wasn't impressed with how they held up. They wore fine and always balanced well, but they didn't live up to their name after 20k miles on them. Come on, a 3800 fwd Grandma car shouldn't be able to break them loose shifting to 2nd!

The All-terrain KO's that were on my gf's truck were great though. Hell, even when two wore funny, we put them on a derby car and had a blast.

I've been thinking about getting a set of AT's for the truck, or potential winter beater yet to be procured, but I can't say I'll run their all-season/passenger car tires again.

What size ST's did you end up with, Disturban? Mine ran 800, but 255-85's aren't common. I have no complaints about them after 8k, except they don't make them in E-range.
 
#39 ·
Sorry about your bad luck. I put new BFG AT's on my GC in 2004 (due to the advice of folks on the old Mich Jeepr board). I rotate them twice a year. Five years later, they are like brand new. When I bought them, the tire gremlin told me that if I rotated them twice a year, they'd last forever. If not, they might last two years. He's been right so far.
 
#40 · (Edited)
:whiz: On BfG tires, Bought 4 NEW at's for my 97 F350, 2 weeks later 3 were going flat with no trace of a leak. The local dealer finally sent them back to the manufacturer who also (bullshit) did not know why they were leaking but, Would exchange them for a set of 35x12.50-16 MT's. 3 weeks on the MT's before an air pocket the size of a softball appeared in the middle of the sidewall. In the end I had my money back to buy a set of Pro comp MT's and all was good. My contribution to a worthless thread.:nana:
 
#42 ·
On all of my past DD's, trucks and SUV's (for the past 13 years), I've gone through 3 sets of 31" bfg at's and 1 set of 31" bfg mt's, not a single problem. Love them and plan running them for years to come.

It's a bummer you happen to have an issue. But you wife probably nailed something HUGE and I'm sure she need's an alignment now, and I bet even with some belt coming through they would have ran another 30K miles.

LONG LIVE THE BFG AT!!!!!
 
#46 ·
I have had several sets of BFG tires, and I have had great luck with them.

You got a shitty set, sorry about your luck. It didn't take long to get to the point in this thread that you shouldn't blame the manufacturer for a bad set of used tires. If I bought an old ass cheap Cadillac that appeared to be in good shape with a ton of miles on it, and it broke down, I wouldn't swear off new Cadillacs forever.

As with many folks on here, your logic is flawed.
 
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