Check your tires. LT vs. passenger tires on K2500

[WarWagon]

Luckily I do not use my 1995 to tow that often. When going in for a tire rotation and possible radial pull we found that one tire was wearing in the center twice as fast as the other 3. It was almost to the wear bars with over 50% on the other tires. It looked like classic severe over inflation.

No a 6.5 TD isn't doing burnouts around the corner.

Come to find out when I got new tires they mounted 3 LT rated tires and 1 passenger tire. (Different number of plys/belts) Wrong tire for a heavy K2500 by over inflation and possible overloading if I took the rig to the load limits. Several prior rotations did not locate the issue.

Not to be out done with one screw up I matched the axle set up with the free replacement tire and one new tire replacing the never used spare from 1994.

Taking it for a spin resulted in a drunken sailor feeling. At 45 MPH I had my hands full with the new rear tires! Returning to the store to check inflation they discover they used passenger tires for both the new rear tires! Even though I was sold LT tires... :mad2: Double whammy?

 

[trouttrooper]

holy crap, what tire store is that??? Some mistakes are forgivable, but that's downright scary.....Twice even. I'd avoid them like the plague.

 

[Ed HD]

:stupid:

Wow. That's way worse than when the tire shop put 1 215 on the front of my sister's Taurus, with the rest of the tires being 225's. I can't imagine how the diff liked that one...

 

[GM Guy]

Tire shops....most will find a way to screw up. needed 215/75R14 car tires for the buick, and they put on 215/70. the last go around was pleasant with the new front shoes for the 91 GMC. they did everything I asked for (DOT codes to the outside? a little OCD, yes, but they did them!

60 PSI stems on a 80 PSI tire is the biggest problem I see. hell, on the last go around, I got 80 PSI stems on my 50 PSI tires!

I will never let them mount the rims though, I hand torque them myself. no air wrench touches them