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Why do we use Nitrogen Air in all of our tires?

  • Better air pressure retention -- Nitrogen doesn't seep out through the tire walls like Oxygen can, so tires remain fully inflated longer.
  • Enhanced fuel economy -- Nitrogen dissipates heat faster than air, and heat causes rolling resistance. "Maintaining tire pressure can boost fuel economy by as much as 6 percent."
  • Longer tread life -- Filling your tires with pure Nitrogen makes tires run cooler, which will reduce tire failure. It also prevents oxidation, which can cause tread separation and belt failure. Since Nitrogen doesn't carry moisture, it won't cause rust on the inside of rims and valve stems.
  • Slow chemical aging -- "Filling a tire with Nitrogen also significantly slows the chemical aging process of the tire's rubber components."
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BFGoodrich Radial Long Trail T/A

Recommended for: Light Truck/SUV

The Radial Long Trail T/A is BFGoodrich's Highway All-Season Light Truck tire designed for pickup truck and sport utility vehicle drivers who desire low noise, long life and traction, even in light snow. While the Radial Long Trail T/A was originally developed to be long on performance, long on mileage and long on comfort to meet the Original Equipment requirements of vehicle manufacturers, its size range has been expanded to fit a wide range of light truck applications.

The Radial Long Trail T/A molds its all-season tread rubber compound into a computer designed asymmetric tread design that features a continuous outside shoulder and center rib to enhance dry road traction, reduce noise and promote treadlife. Then independent, intermediate and inner shoulder tread blocks provide the biting edges to enhance foul weather traction. On the inside, the Radial Long Trail T/A features twin steel belts reinforced by BFGoodrich's Equal TEnsion Containment System (ETEC System) to enhance durability along with a flexible, shock-absorbing two-ply polyester cord sidewall to provide a comfortable highway ride.

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Bridgestone Dueler A/T

Recommended for: Light Truck/SUV - On/Off Road All-Terrain

The Dueler A/T REVO with UNI-T AQII Technology was developed to meet the needs of pickup truck and sport utility vehicle drivers who drive their vehicle both on and off the road. The Dueler A/T REVO is Bridgestone's first Off-Road All-Terrain light truck tire in America to feature UNI-T AQII Technology. It uses an advanced compound and construction features that enhance and preserve wet traction throughout the tire's life to better handle wet road conditions.

On the outside, the Dueler A/T REVO molds a Super Long Link Carbon Black, Dual Layer Tread II compound into an aggressive, all-terrain pattern of interlocking tread blocks to provide traction and handling on- and off-road. As the top layer of tread compound wears away, it reveals a second layer specifically developed to resist aging and remain pliable to retain more wet traction-even as it wears.

Internally, the Dueler A/T REVO features a Computer Optimized Component System that blends twin high strength steel belts reinforced with spirally wrapped nylon to stabilize the tread area and enhance durability while minimizing weight. O-Beads (which use a single strand of bead wire that is continuously wrapped multiple times until the desired strength is provided) enhance the tire's fit to the wheel to improve uniformity and ride quality.
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Uniroyal Laredo All Season AWPUniroyal Laredo All Season AWP

Recommended for: Light Truck/SUV - Highway All-Season

Laredo is the family name selected for Uniroyal's light truck tires. It was selected to convey each light truck tire's ability to help provide traction and durability even in the most rugged conditions. Used extensively as original equipment (OE) on America's vans and trucks for years, Uniroyal Laredo tires are a popular, affordable choice for replacement tires as well.

The Laredo All Season AWP (All Weather Performance) is Uniroyal's premium quality Highway All-Season Light Truck radial that offers long mileage when used on sport utility vehicles and pickups. It offers a tread design with a narrow continuous center rib to minimize premature wear and enhance ride and noise qualities while the tire's sharp edged independent tread blocks in the intermediate and shoulder ribs increase traction in almost every weather condition including light snow and slush. Under the tread pattern is Uniroyal's DuraShield construction (twin steel belts, high strength carcass and a heavy gauge innerliner) to provide enhanced tread life, durability, and air retention.

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Firestone Destination LE

Firestone Destination LE

Recommended for: Light Truck/SUV - Highway All-Season

The Destination LE with UNI-T is Firestone's Highway All-Season tire developed to bring the benefits of UNI-T technology to sport utility vehicles, vans and light duty pickup trucks. It is designed to combine much of a passenger tire's quiet comfort with yea-round traction, even in light snow.

On the outside, the Destination LE uses Firestone's Weathergrip tread compound enhanced with a special Long Link Carbon Black (L.L. Carbon) to boost wet traction while improving treadwear. This compound is molded into a symmetric tread design featuring independent blocks that use Firestone's 5 Degree Noise Reduction to generate noise-canceling sound waves to reduce overall tire noise. On the inside, the Destination LE features twin steel belts reinforced with spirally wrapped nylon to provide strength, uniformity and durability on top of a polyester cord body that helps cushion the ride.
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Firestone Destination A/T
Firestone Destination A/TRecommended for: Light Truck/SUV - On/Off Road All-Terrain

The Destination A/T with UNI-T is Firestone's On-/Off-Road All-Terrain tire developed to meet the needs of light truck drivers who desire the look and performance needed for on- and off-road driving. Destination A/T tires are designed to blend an all-terrain tread design with a comfortable ride for sport utility vehicles, pickup trucks and vans while providing year-round traction, even in snow.

The Destination A/T uses Firestone's UNI-T technology to blend off-road traction with enhanced on-road capabilities. UNI-T is a combination of technologies that merge a comprehensive design method with innovative manufacturing features to enhance tire comfort, performance and wear.

The Destination A/T features a Long Link Carbon (a special form of carbon black) enhanced tread compound to blend wet performance and wear on the road with cut, tear and abrasion resistance off the road. The tread compound is molded into a symmetric pattern that features over-the-shoulder design, independent intermediate tread blocks and a continuous center rib to combine off-road traction with enhanced highway stability while circumferential grooves, lateral notches and sipes enhance stormy weather traction. The tire's internal structure includes twin, high-tensile steel cord belts with a polyester cord body to enhance strength and durability.
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Goodyear Fortera

Goodyear Fortera

Recommended for: Light Truck/SUV - Highway All-Season

The Goodyear Fortera HL Edition is a premium Highway All-Season light truck tire that was developed to provide refined ruggedness for luxury sport utility vehicles. The Fortera HL is designed to provide a quiet, even ride along with overall responsiveness.

The Fortera HL features a long-wearing tread compound molded into a tread design that enhances traction and ride comfort while reducing noise levels. Staggered circumferential grooves and curvilinear sipes and grooves are integrated into the tread design to provide the biting edges that enhance year round traction, even in light snow. The tire's shoulder design and sidewall appearance offer rugged good looks to complement the vehicle's image. Internally, the Fortera HL uses a computer-optimized tire shape to reduce footprint sensitivity to load to provide an excellent balance of performance properties for lightly loaded to fully loaded sport utility vehicles (when properly inflated and within the vehicle's approved load limits). Its twin steel belts and two-ply polyester cord body help provide predictable handling while enhancing ride comfort.

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Michelin CrossTerrain SUVMichelin CrossTerrain SUV

Recommended for: Light Truck/SUV - Highway All-Season

The Michelin Cross Terrain SUV tire is a premium highway all-season light truck tire designed to complement the way most Americans drive their sport utility vehicles. The Cross Terrain SUV tire was developed to combine the looks of a light truck tire with the low noise and ride comfort associated with a luxury car tire.

The Cross Terrain SUV features a silica-enhanced tread compound molded into a tread design optimized for car-like ride comfort and responsiveness in dry, wet and wintry conditions. The tire's sidewall offers rugged good looks to complement the vehicle's image while its continuous shoulder tread ribs maximize wear qualities while minimizing noise levels. Full depth, interlocking zigzag sipes are integrated into the tread design to provide the extra biting edges that enhance year round traction and driving confidence in light snow. Internally, the Cross Terrain SUV features twin steel belts, a two-ply polyester cord body and Michelin's Bead Tension Structure to increase ride comfort and provide predictable handling.

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Goodyear Integrity

Goodyear Integrity

Recommended for: Passenger Vehicles - Passenger All-Season

Goodyear Integrity radials are Passenger All-Season tires designed for family cars, minivans and light duty trucks. They have become a popular choice among new car manufacturers by providing a smooth, quiet ride and year-round traction, even in light snow.

On the outside, Integrity radials feature a symmetric tread design with circumferential tread grooves to evacuate water out from under the tire's footprint to enhance wet traction and resist hydroplaning. Their premium all-season tread rubber compound is molded into a highly siped tread design that features open shoulder grooves and independent tread blocks to enhance foul weather traction while a continuous center rib reduces noise and promotes treadlife. Internally, the Integrity features twin steel belts that stabilize the tread area to provide strength and enhance treadwear, and a polyester cord body to provide a smooth ride.
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Bridgestone Dueler H/TBridgestone Dueler H/T

Recommended for: Light Truck/SUV - Highway All-Season

The Dueler H/T D684 II with UNI-T is a Bridgestone's Highway All-Season light truck tire designed for light duty pickup sport utility vehicles driven primarily on the road. It was developed to provide aggressive looks and year-round traction, even in light snow.

Bridgestone's Ultimate Network of Intelligent Tire Technology (UNI-T) brings advanced tire technologies together, taking tire performance to a new level. This combination of innovative tire design, roundness and tread compound maximizes the tire's performance, ride quality and wear.

On the outside, the Dueler H/T D684 II features a symmetric independent block tread design. Its tread blocks and all-season tread compound were developed to provide traction on dry, wet and light snow-covered roads. Internally, the Dueler H/T D684 II features twin steel belts to stabilize the tread area and a polyester cord body to help cushion the ride.
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Uniroyal Laredo AWR

Uniroyal Laredo AWR

Recommended for: Light Truck/SUV - Highway All-Season

Original Equipment (OE) All-Season tires are the prevalent tire choice for vehicles sold in the United States. Developed for use on new cars and light trucks, these tires provide a versatile blend of ride quality, noise comfort, treadwear, handling and year-round traction, even in light snow.

While Original Equipment All-Season tires are often repurchased as direct replacements for pairs and sets of worn out Original Equipment tires, they can also be used on other vehicles in axle pairs or sets of four if they match the needed tire size, load range and speed rating specifications, as well as the anticipated driving conditions.
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Goodyear Wrangler AT/SGoodyear Wrangler AT/S

Recommended for: Light Truck/SUV - On/Off Road All-Terrain

The Goodyear Wrangler AT/S is engineered for aggressive traction with a smooth quiet ride. The dual traction lug channels evacuate mud, snow and water for better grip both on and off the road. A computer-designed tread features 7800 biting edges to provide improved traction. The Wrangler AT/S is available in a wide range of sizes to fit most popular pickups and sport utility vehicles.


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Goodyear Wrangler RT/S

Goodyear Wrangler RT/S

Recommended for: Light Truck/SUV - Highway All-Season

Original Equipment (OE) All-Season tires are the prevalent tire choice for vehicles sold in the United States. Developed for use on new cars and light trucks, these tires provide a versatile blend of ride quality, noise comfort, treadwear, handling and year-round traction, even in light snow.

While Original Equipment All-Season tires are often repurchased as direct replacements for pairs and sets of worn out Original Equipment tires, they can also be used on other vehicles in axle pairs or sets of four if they match the needed tire size, load range and speed rating specifications, as well as the anticipated driving conditions.
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Goodyear Wrangler HPGoodyear Wrangler HP

Recommended for: Light Truck/SUV - Highway All-Season

The Wrangler HP is Goodyear's Highway All-Season light truck tire often used as Original Equipment on sporty pickups and sport utility vehicles like the Cadillac Escalade, Dodge Ram and Durango RT, Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo and the Land Rover Discovery 4.6 HSE. The Wrangler HP was developed to blend high performance on-road handling with all-season traction on any terrain, as well as in snow.

On the outside, the Wrangler HP features a symmetric tread design with wide outer shoulders and large intermediate blocks to provide responsive handling and traction on dry roads, while wide circumferential and lateral tread grooves help evacuate water from under the tire's footprint to resist hydroplaning and strategically placed sipes enhance all-weather grip. Internally, the Wrangler HP features twin steel belts (H-speed rated sizes reinforced with nylon cap plies) that stabilize the tread area to boost handling and high-speed capability. Depending upon application, the Wrangler HP features a polyester or rayon cord body to provide appropriate strength and enhance ride quality.
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Firestone Wilderness LE

Firestone Wilderness LE

Recommended for: Light Truck/SUV - Highway All-Season

Original Equipment (OE) All-Season tires are the prevalent tire choice for vehicles sold in the United States. Developed for use on new cars and light trucks, these tires provide a versatile blend of ride quality, noise comfort, treadwear, handling and year-round traction, even in light snow.

While Original Equipment All-Season tires are often repurchased as direct replacements for pairs and sets of worn out Original Equipment tires, they can also be used on other vehicles in axle pairs or sets of four if they match the needed tire size, load range and speed rating specifications, as well as the anticipated driving conditions.
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Goodyear Eagle RS-AGoodyear Eagle RS-A

Recommended for: Passenger Vehicles - High Performance All-Season

Original Equipment (OE) All-Season tires are the prevalent tire choice for vehicles sold in the United States. Developed for use on new cars and light trucks, these tires provide a versatile blend of ride quality, noise comfort, treadwear, handling and year-round traction, even in light snow.

While Original Equipment All-Season tires are often repurchased as direct replacements for pairs and sets of worn out Original Equipment tires, they can also be used on other vehicles in axle pairs or sets of four if they match the needed tire size, load range and speed rating specifications, as well as the anticipated driving conditions.

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Dunlop GT Qualifier

Dunlop GT Qualifier

Recommended for: Passenger Vehicles - Performance All-Season

The Dunlop GT Qualifier T continues a tradition that began over 10 years ago when Dunlop first used the Qualifier name on its performance tire family. Now, as Dunlop introduces the newest member of the GT Qualifier family, it has maintained the size requirements for the traditional vehicles of the past while adding the new sizes for the vehicles of the present.

The GT Qualifier T radial line offers T-rated high speed durability blended with an aesthetically exciting tread pattern. Its sidewall styling features bold raised white letters and/or smooth black letters set against a serrated circumferential band. Its All-Season tread design uses a premium tread compound which blends traction on dry, wet and light snow covered roads, and is supported by wide steel belts to provide predictable handling and good treadwear. The GT Qualifier T features an internal construction that begins with a precise tire-to-wheel fit to minimize vibration and ensure good ride comfort, while sidewall reinforcements help control carcass flex to provide good steering response.

The applications for the new GT Qualifier T include the popular raised white letter sizes for classic muscle cars, vans and pickups, along with blackwall styling for today's sporty coupes and sedans. The GT Qualifier T features a 50,000 mile limited treadwear warranty backed by Dunlop.
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Continental Touring ContactContinental Touring Contact

Recommended for: Passenger Vehicles - Standard Touring All-Season

TouringContact AS radials are Continental's Standard Touring All-Season tires used as Original Equipment (O.E.) on several imported and domestic coupes, sedans and sport utility vehicles, as well as are available in other replacement tire sizes. TouringContact AS radials are designed to combine low rolling resistance with a smooth, quiet ride and year-round traction on dry and wet roads, as well as in light snow.

The Continental TouringContact AS radial's tread pattern features independent tread blocks to enhance year round traction that uses computer-optimized pitch sequencing for added ride comfort and reduced noise. The tire's wide circumferential grooves are combined with lateral grooves and sipes to enhance traction on wet roads and in light snow. Internally, the TouringContact AS features twin steel belts for strength and durability, and a sidewall construction (harmonized bead area and polyester cord carcass) for a smooth ride.

Continental TouringContact AS tires feature subtle blackwall styling.

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TigerPaw

Tiger Paw Touring SR

Recommended for: Passenger Vehicles - Standard Touring All-Season

Original Equipment (OE) All-Season tires are the prevalent tire choice for vehicles sold in the United States. Developed for use on new cars and light trucks, these tires provide a versatile blend of ride quality, noise comfort, treadwear, handling and year-round traction, even in light snow.

While Original Equipment All-Season tires are often repurchased as direct replacements for pairs and sets of worn out Original Equipment tires, they can also be used on other vehicles in axle pairs or sets of four if they match the needed tire size, load range and speed rating specifications, as well as the anticipated driving conditions.
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