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RE: bridgestones - 4/7/2006 12:33:36 PM

jbb6811

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BFG all terrain t/a KO's you can't say more and the look----killer see mine on cardomain! user name is the same!

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RE: bridgestones - 4/8/2006 1:53:52 AM

flexline

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Whoa... did you just call your Hummer a car???

oh... well I guess it is a H3

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ORIGINAL: jbb6811

i just want to say the tires surely make the car! my h3 was
the showroom car. it the lux package with 18's and BFG a/t ko's 285-65-18. they are so different
i just liked them before but after driven with the bridgestone i lovem! i feel like my wife will
be much safer and have better control of the hummer when and if it calls.

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RE: bridgestones - 4/10/2006 2:34:04 PM

Linus Gump

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Here is the tire I decided to go with. It is the Les Schwab tire I had mentioned earlier. On my first outing with them yesterday, I did a lot better then I did with the stock tires on a lot of the trails I went on, and even got bold enough to try trails that I wouldn't have otherwise. They are a little noisier on the street, but not so my girlfiend noticed, until I pointed out I have new tires, and they make noise. Off road, I am happy with them so far. I found some snow, but with tempretures in the 40's the snow is melting and turning to ice under any wieght. It sticks to everything and packs up into an ice rock, and I dont think chains woould help much there.

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RE: bridgestones - 4/10/2006 7:37:22 PM

Grandman

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I run the tire you complain about and have found it to be very stable even at high speed . I wonder if the H3 you were using simply didnt have a bad set on it for some reason !

The BFG KO i run on a Dodge dually with very good service , They do excellent in the snow , they are a tighter pattern , in the snow that is an advantage . The more edges on the tire the better in snow or ice .

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RE: bridgestones - 4/10/2006 7:51:06 PM

Linus Gump

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Unless you have good floatation on snow eventually you will be dragging your axles and front skidplate in the snow. This is where it was packing up into ice. With the stock tires, they would plug up with ice and now you have no traction. With the new tires, they self cleaned, but in the process dug in deeper which adds to the problem with ice build up under the vehicle. When it was colder, and the snow stayed snow, I had an easier time with the stock tires, but still they were lacking in mud. Since mud is the primary terrain around here, having something with wider spaced lugs and better self cleaning is better over all.

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