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Old Sep 30, 2012 | 08:59 PM
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I am the original owner and we are coming up on 7 years which is really longer than you should run a set of tires regardless of tread wear in my opinion. I have the Adventure package with bridgestone dueler 285/75R16 and at 45,000 miles i am impressed with the amount of tread that is remaining. I have been keeping a close eye on them and I am starting to notice some very fine cracking in the tread portion so time to replace. I plan to back with the original tire and size.
I am wondering how many miles otheres have gotten out of these tires.
 

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Old Sep 30, 2012 | 11:44 PM
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I bought my h3 used about a year ago and I do enjoy wheeling it so I bought bigger mud tires but my stock tires were awful. They only had 27000 miles on them when I finally bought my new tires and I wasn't impressed with how soft they were and how the tread wore on them. I personally would buy a better tire of the same size if that's what you're looking for. Good luck tire shopping.
 
Old Sep 30, 2012 | 11:46 PM
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I have heard stories of of the OEM Duellers going above 80,000 miles.

Personally, we have never had them on any of our HUMMERs more than a week or 2 before swapping them out for a more agressive larger tire.
 
Old Oct 1, 2012 | 04:33 AM
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I replaced the Duellers on my H3 at about 45,000 miles. I went to 35" Kevlar MTRs when I added the Hutchinson two piece wheels. For an all purpose tire I thought the Duellers were pretty good.
 
Old Oct 1, 2012 | 10:53 AM
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Mine had nearly 40k miles and still had plenty of tread when I switched to duratrac 315s, I'd rough estimate about half of their life left.
 
Old Oct 1, 2012 | 01:34 PM
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I have my first set in storage under the house, 16K on them, 0 on the spare.
 
Old Oct 1, 2012 | 01:51 PM
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I ran about 80K miles on the 285/75's on my H3 even though they were marginal off road - at best. I replaced them with GY Duratracs in the same size. Great tires on and off road, nice aggressive look, but about a 1 MPG drop in gas mileage. I am also thinking that they will not get the total life of the OEM tires or the BFG KO's I have used on other vehicles.
 
Old Oct 2, 2012 | 11:39 AM
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I have an 06 adventure. I got 33k from my OEM tires. Still had tread left but the sidewalls were weather checked and cracking, finally blew out a sidewall on the trail. The desert heat is not good to tires.
 
Old Oct 2, 2012 | 12:12 PM
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i had about 80,000 on my oem duelers, so i replaced them with the same thing, now going on 150,000 and they are still looking great.
 
Old Oct 2, 2012 | 02:41 PM
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I have the 265 Goodyears and have cracks in them forming all over. I have been looking to get rid of them for a while, but the tread lasted pretty well. I hate the tire, but haven't had the $ to spend on new ones until now. 61k on them.

The worst part I can't decide on the Mickey Thompson or Duratrac...
 



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