About two years ago I decided it was time to upgrade to some light 17s, and some good sticky tires. Shortly after this decision was made, I was given a 17" aluminum spare tire from an '07 Silverado as partial payment for helping a friend with his car.

It was a good looking wheel, and when I got it home on a scale, I found it only weighed 21 lbs. Exactly what I was looking for.

Two years later, I finally got the cash to find 3 more wheels, and get some 275/60/17 Hankook Ventus ST RH06.

These tires are 1.5" shorter than my old tires, and the whole combo is 12 lbs. lighter. I'm hoping that both the decrease in diameter, and rotating weight will get me a 12.99 once the good air comes back around. Time will tell.

Oh, and the truck looks like less of a clusterfucked piece of **** now, too.

How it was:
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Now:
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Those look really good you have anwsered a question on tires for myself also how lowered are you

 

I'm about 1.5/4 from stock 2wd height, 3.5/6 from stock 4wd height.

I really couldn't be happier with how these look, I just hope they help as much as I think they will at the track. Truck definitely feels like it pulls a bit harder.

 

I know mine corner well. Truck wants to go faster than I do around high speed corners

 

You didn't weigh the tire itself did you? I'm finding 40 lbs each online, not sure if it's correct though.

 

On my shitty bathroom scale they were between 39 and 40 lbs.

 

Wut brand and style of wheels are those ?

 

Damn, I was considering changing from my gmc 20s and 275/45s to some factory 17s I have in the garage and these tires, but looks like I'd only be saving like 8-10 lbs a wheel.

 

It's the N86 spare option on the GMT900 trucks. Kinda a pain to find.
8-10 lbs is a pretty significant savings. And what wheels would you be going with, I bet you could save a lot more than that, considering the OEM 20s are about 40 lbs. a piece.

 

For a spare tire/rim look really good