Falken wildleak A/T
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From: Northern Va
Year: 1999
Model: Cherokee
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Falken wildleak A/T
Just found a set of 4 falken wild peak at tires that the owner says has about 70% tread left. He's asking 350obo
How are these tires? Is this a good deal or should I keep looking? Might be able to get him down in price a little bit. Also I'm in high school currently so I can't afford a set tires that are 1000 bucks as much as I would like to.
How are these tires? Is this a good deal or should I keep looking? Might be able to get him down in price a little bit. Also I'm in high school currently so I can't afford a set tires that are 1000 bucks as much as I would like to.
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From: Southern Maryland
Year: 1993
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My brother has a set on his Silverado, he also bought them used, PO had ran them at 60 psi causing them to start to split on one part and a belt to get out of place on another, they both still hold air however . Just keep them at 30-40 psi on road and you should be good, they're nice and quiet on road but aren't great in deep snow, overall for $350 I'd say go for it
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From: Racine, WI
Year: 1997
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I submit to you that they are bad tires. Long before they're officially worn-out they turn into a completely different, useless tire.
Granted: these are more than 50% worn, but this is why I hate shallow grooves and ramped blocks; lots of other tires can make it this far and still maintain the same pattern they had when new. This is also why people need to at least point-out their limited experience with a tire when reviewing it new if they don't have the patience to actually wear through its life before reviewing it.
Originally Posted by mschi772
Granted: these are more than 50% worn, but this is why I hate shallow grooves and ramped blocks; lots of other tires can make it this far and still maintain the same pattern they had when new. This is also why people need to at least point-out their limited experience with a tire when reviewing it new if they don't have the patience to actually wear through its life before reviewing it.
Originally Posted by mschi772
The middle rib of the Falken AT has ramping. Ramping is just that--instead of being a groove straight down into the tire, it's a gradual slope. As the tire wears, more and more of that ramp disappears until what was once a groove as far as the contact area was concerned is no longer there at all. As the Falken AT wears, the center rib gradually changes shape.
Ramping is often used for noise reduction as far as I understand tire tread engineering. Firestone Destination LE2 uses it without much if any harm, but I do not like the way Falken uses it at all especially with all of the shallow grooving they use all over the place on the same tire--it changes the tire WAY too much from new to used.
Ramping is often used for noise reduction as far as I understand tire tread engineering. Firestone Destination LE2 uses it without much if any harm, but I do not like the way Falken uses it at all especially with all of the shallow grooving they use all over the place on the same tire--it changes the tire WAY too much from new to used.
Last edited by mschi772; Feb 12, 2016 at 05:44 AM.
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