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I had dueler Alenzas brand new on my 2006 when I bought it because they dealer couldn’t sell it without putting new tires on it. I hated the duelers. Couldn’t corner for crap and they’re terrible in the snow. I don’t regret not buying those tires lol
 
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I had to drive a Ford work truck for a year. I hated that thing. The seat even made my back hurt.

Exactly what I am dealing with, my back is hurting too, drives like sh*t. Steering sucks, transmission sucks. The whole truck sucks. LOL. Got that stupid start stop sh*t on it. I figured out how to bypass it though.
 

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I had dueler Alenzas brand new on my 2006 when I bought it becuase they sewer couldn’t sell it without putting new tires on it. I hated the duelers. Couldn’t corner for crap and they’re ere terrible in the snow. I don’t regret not buying those tires lol
I've had great results with the previous 4-5 sets I've had. These new ones are the only 80,000 mile version I've had of them though. They are 90% perfect. Just not as good as the 35k mile ones that came on it. All the other sets, I got about 50-55k out of them and was very happy.
 

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I've had great results with the previous 4-5 sets I've had. These new ones are the only 80,000 mile version I've had of them though. They are 90% perfect. Just not as good as the 35k mile ones that came on it. All the other sets, I got about 50-55k out of them and was very happy.
I live in a ski town so I’ve never not had mud and snow rated all terrains. When I brought the Denali home it was my first AWD and I couldn’t justify putting tires on it when it already had brand new tires. But after three months I just couldn’t take the Bridgestones. Lol. Luckily we didn’t get a ton of snow that winter so the duelers were ok enough to get through the last two months of winter that year.
 
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Ordered up some Wix Filters on amazon and going to give the AC Delco oil a try. @swathdiver seems to have luck with this. Right James?

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Yep, just ordered 6 bottles from Rock Auto. Turned out to be $180.79 signed, sealed and almost delivered. Also picked up some PF48 oil filters for the Sierra and a K&N Filter from Amazon for the Yukon XL, the HP2011.
 
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Yep, just ordered 6 bottles from Rock Auto. Turned out to be $180.79 signed, sealed and almost delivered. Also picked up some PF48 oil filters for the Sierra and a K&N Filter from Amazon for the Yukon XL, the HP2011.
I can't believe the price on amazon. Three, 5qt jugs for $35.00 seems wrong. They are out of stock anyway so we shall see.
 
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Yep, just ordered 6 bottles from Rock Auto. Turned out to be $180.79 signed, sealed and almost delivered. Also picked up some PF48 oil filters for the Sierra and a K&N Filter from Amazon for the Yukon XL, the HP2011.
Why not use the HP2011's on the Sierra also?
 

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I can't believe the price on amazon. Three, 5qt jugs for $35.00 seems wrong. They are out of stock anyway so we shall see.

Saw that too and went with RA and also ordered a bunch of other parts for the Yukon and Kia. In the end, it's not much different.

Why not use the HP2011's on the Sierra also?

I would but Julia wants the cheap filters from now on, just to see I guess. They way she drives, they're only on the truck for 2-3 months at most.
 
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Yall think I’m in the ballpark?
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Those look good. How about a shot of the side? These new Bridgestones looked way to aggressive (tread depth and massive space between the tread maybe?) to me at first but I guess I got used to them. I think those look fine.
See what I mean? I'm used to them now but wasn't super happy at first. They were like $1,200 plus mount/balance :(
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Too aggressive?

Mine must be over the top bully. :cool:

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