Anyone have trouble with T/A radials?
My tire experience:
BFGs: great driving tire on dry pavement, rain requires a light foot but still acceptable, they wear too quickly, but tires that wear quickly are supposed to handle well due to the soft compound, (I just bought a set because BFG was the only maker of the tire size front and rear that I needed?!?!). I always had traction issues with BFGs, but not on the Barracuda, from what I am told it is where the axle is placed on the springs.
Dunlop G/T Qualifier: Assume! I loved these tires. I had them on my 350 4 speed 57 Chevy and I would do burnouts everywhere, all the time, and I never saw a tire that refused to wear like these, must be very hard compound. Traction was not my goal at that time, but in retrospect they probably did grab pretty good. FYI: the 350 was a brand new crate motor from GM, 330 horse, muncie, and posi.
Goodyear Eagle GTs: these were on my 2000 Sonoma with the ZQ8 sport suspension from when the truck was new until 2007. I drove it like a racecar, it is my daily driver, highway miles, handles great. The tire wear was even on all 4 and I never had an issue. Even when I replaced them, they were close to bald but not quite to the wearbars and no steel belts were showing or other issues. I replaced them at over 80k, yes 80k! Great tires, but very expensive. These may go by a different name now.
Which leads to my current set of Eagle GT-HRs: same truck, less money than the GTs, but I have had them for 2 years now and they perform great. They are even ok in the snow, no issues in the rain. FYI: Walmart listed these for $98 before installation, Goodyear listed them for $139.99. I went to 2 Goodyear stores and told them that Walmart had the same tires for $98 and the first store told me to buy them from Walmart, the second store matched it. The truth was the Goodyears for $98 were not the GT-HRs and Walmart had to special order them.
I also replaced the BFGs on my T/A with Goodyears. Good traction, handle well, (they seam to be more square on the edges, if that makes a difference?). Great tires.
The opinions expressed here are just that, and what do I really know anyway?