Titan Tires

peteL · Jun 9, 2009

My wife and I stopped at a Kubota dealer Sunday while killing some time before a store opened. I noticed all the new tractors in the lot from the CUTs to the large agriculture tractors all had Titan tires installed. Is Titan a new name for a former brand such as Goodrich?

trustyt · Jun 9, 2009

I believe that Titan bought the ag tire business that Good Year had in the past year, so you will see a lot of Titan tires. Trustyt

WCS · Jun 9, 2009

Titan Tires bought out Armstrong Tire a few years ago. One of their plants making tractor tires is in Des Moines, Iowa.

730 virgil · Jun 9, 2009

titan also has a plant at freeport il.
they make lots of tractor there too.

Anonymous-0 · Jun 9, 2009

WE HAVE HAD TITAN TIRES FOR SEVERAL YEARS NOW.
AS ONE POSTER STATED THEY NOW HAVE PURCHASED THE AG DIVISON OF GOODYEAR ALSO. REAL GOOD SEVICE AND
NOT MANY PROBLEMS. FOR A TIME SOME OF THE KUBOTAS HAD FIRESTONE BUT NOW EVERY KUBOTA COMES ON TITAN EVEN THE LAWN MOWERS.

504-2 · Jun 9, 2009

And they probably built the rims too.

RodinNS · Jun 9, 2009

Titan either bought or IS what once was the Armstrong tire division. In more recent times they bought GoodYear's Ag tire division.
Aside from certain models that remain from the GoodYear line I wouldn't put a Titan tire on a wheelbarrow.
If you apply a load to them, the sidewalls will blow, often in short order.
If that dealer only has Titan tires on all their gear I'd be taking my business elsewhere unless they want to put real tires on for the same money...

Rod

TomTex · Jun 9, 2009

Been running a set of Titans since 1998. No problems at all with the rear. Front tires have had multiple flats with all the Texas mesquite trees, and I finally had to put tubes in them couple of years ago. Also ran over deer antler with one front and had to have a boot put in it. But overall the tires have been real good. Tom

flying belgian · Jun 9, 2009

I put Titans on the 4230 a couple years ago and they are really waering down fast.

Anonymous-0 · Jun 10, 2009

As Virgil mentioned, Many are made in the Freeport IL. facility for Decades known as KELLY-SPRINGFIELD tire co. They are hanging on there by a thread, we just don't need to lose any more jobs in this country.. They used to make HUMVEE Tires but I suppose that horse has left the barn with the war dwindling down....

Anonymous-0 · Jun 10, 2009

I love all the rumors....As mentioned, Titan is the former Armstrong. They own what was GoodYear AG. They are a good tire. I use them on tractors that mow highway right-of-ways because they hold up well under those rather abusive conditions. Been using Tiotans for years now. Never had one blow a sidewall, and they don"t wear any more than other brands under simular conditions. Not sure where people get their info, surely not from actually using them or they wouldn"t say the things they do.

Don-Wi · Jun 10, 2009

We've got a set of Titan's on our Massey 165 w/ a loader on it. I think they've been on for more than 10 years already.

They give good traction and they hold up no worse and no better than any other tire that gets soaked in manure on a regular basis. They are cracked and weather checked, but like I said they get soaked in manure on a fairly regular basis. The front tires aren't quite as old but are really looking rough.

Donovan from Wisconsin

rustyfarmall · Jun 10, 2009

I put a pair of Titans on the front of my mowing H probably 10 years ago. Granted those tires do not see any hard use or abuse, but they do get used, and they still look like new.

RodinNS · Jun 10, 2009

You apperantly never had a load on a Titan/Armstrong.
We've had over a dozen of them over the years that were fitted on new tractors. They probably had better wear in them and always pulled well, but I've had no less that half a dozen blow out from under ME and my as$ and of the dozen or so we had, 95% failed in the sidewall.
I've never had a GoodYear Dyna Torque II fail. I've never had a Michelin fail. I've never had a Firestone fail... but I sure as hell had Titan's fail.

Rod

Mike Aylward · Jun 10, 2009

Pete, like someone said Titan tires were formerly branded as Armstrong. They are more a replacement tire and not the best original equipment tire. New tractors will sometimes have them but usually that is because of a supply disruption from another company. They ARE a softer tire. I have never seen an Armstrong/Titan tire wear out. You will have carcass problems long before they are bald. My tire dealer (who is a good friend) always tells me to buy something else for every day farm use. For recreational use they may be fine. I do know that size for size they are a much lighter weight tire. That usually is a pretty good indication of the quality of the tire. Mike

Anonymous-0 · Jun 10, 2009

Odly enough, we quit using Dyna Torque II's years ago because of poor performance/short life. I doubt there's anything you can throw at a tractor tire that'll rival the abuse they get mowing highway roadsides. We have Titans on a couple tractors with boom mowers that are loaded (weight) well beyond manufacturers recomendations without any signs of sidewall failure. The ONLY reason I know of where a sidewall would fail would be gross UNDERinflation. If you mis-use or purposely abuse ANYTHING it's possible to destroy something. Used CORRECTLY, we've had far better luck with the Titans than any other brand we've tried.

bc · Jun 10, 2009

I had a trailer accident mentioned here before where I was overloaded with that 2606 backhoe. The trailer had 4 Titan tires and one was blown out the sidewall. I have often considered it was the Titan blowing out that started the fishtailing and laying the trailer over but I can't say for sure.

Anonymous-0 · Jun 10, 2009

titan tires will also donate the tires for FFA restoreation projects Had no luck getting other brands to do that.

RodinNS · Jun 10, 2009

I won't argue the short life of the Dyna Torque. They were a cheap, rough riding tire on blacktop but the casing was plenty strong.
On the Titan/Armstrong end we've had 2 Titan R1's the ripped in the sides and we had 2 Armstrongs that ripped in the sides. I had a set fo Titan R4 (skid steer) tires which I believe all 4 failed. We also had a variety of them on various size impliment tires and most of them failed. They all get to 5-7 years old and go boom. All were inflated correctly. When you get enough CaCl showers you'll know what I mean...
The last set was a pair of 18.4-30's that came on a NewHolland TS90. One of them ruptured in the tread one day while plowing. I suppose those tires were balancing something like 11-12000# in that situation when it was carrying the plow... but it seems to me that they were 8 ply rated tires. Patched it that time with a blowout patch as the tires were only 2-3 years old at the time. The last time each one let got, the sides went out with about a 6" hole. Michelins cured that problem, and will likely cure all subsequent tire problems around here.
Titan's have consistently failed on us long before they were near worn out. No other brand of tire has given us that kind of trouble. That should say something...

Rod

Brian Jasper co. Ia · Jun 10, 2009

Titan bought the old Pirelli-Armstrong plant in Des Moines and from what I've seen, they mostly make tractor tires and wheels there. I don't know if Titan bought Goodyear's ag division or not. I have seen Morrie Taylor on RFD TV advertising that they now make Goodyear's ag tires.

John M · Jun 11, 2009

(quoted from post at 11:13:23 06/10/09) I had a trailer accident mentioned here before where I was overloaded with that 2606 backhoe. The trailer had 4 Titan tires and one was blown out the sidewall. I have often considered it was the Titan blowing out that started the fishtailing and laying the trailer over but I can't say for sure.

SO, you were overloaded to start with, and you blamed the tire for your accident?

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