Quote Originally Posted by Frenchy View Post
Off brand tires are a no-no to me. I've mounted and balanced thousands of tires, if you could see how out round some of those off brands are you would never even consider them. They shake and vibrate and wear strangely.
i noticed about 7oz of weight in one of the actual pictures & was thinking about that, but was giving the tire the benefit of the doubt by hoping it was just a moron who balanced it

Quote Originally Posted by tanz45 View Post
They look identical to the Master Craft Version of that tire.

Get away from tire weights. Run air soft pellets. That way you won't have any issues as Devin stated. But i too mounted tires for 7 years, never had any real issues with off brands.

And they are cracking because the rubber is checking, it is completely normal.
will a shop do the airsoft balls? i don't have a lathe or balancer (or access to either right now), so it's out of the question to do it myself. but i do have thousands of plastic BBs

as for my michelins, what does "checking" mean? they were made in '05 & have been on the truck since at least Nov '06 when i bought it. i've had it at a shop or two to rotate & they said they can't legally mess with them because of the cracking/separation.