Well as far as brand I have had good luck with several Major brands of tires: Michelin, Yokohama, Goodyear being the one that held up the best. For a mid range tire, that is not getting used much I have had good luck with Hankock tires.
I have ran a lot of used tires too. I have several truck salvage yards I keep and eye on that sometimes have real good tires at good prices. I usually only by sets of at least four tires and like to get eight. I can usually get them with 60%-80% tread for $150-200.
Best buy recently was a set of 10 (two steers and 8 drives) Michelin tires that only have 3000 miles on them. The came on a new truck 8 years ago. The fellow did not like the traction they had. He put a full set of new tires on of a different tread pattern. He keep the original tires. He traded trucks and traded the tires into a local tire dealer. I bought those tires for $225 each. Those tires new are over $500. The only thing is they are eight years old. They where stored inside out of the sunlight but they do have some age on them.
That being said I quit running any used tires on the steering axle. I have had three used steer tires blow out in a 7-8 year period from tires that where major brands and looked like new as far as thread wear/weathering. The first caused a truck accident/roll. The next two just got the rims. Even looking at the tires after they blew you could not see any thing wrong with them. The first one I still feel was some thing laying in the road. It had a straight cut across the thread but we could not find anything. The other two showed cord separations. I feel those tires were damaged on the original trucks. Remember about the only newer tires are going to come from newer trucks that get wrecked. Not many new tires get put on old worn out trucks that get scrapped. This was three tires out of 100-150 tires I have bought used over the years.
Just looked at my latest tire price quotes an Pomp's tire has Hankook steer tires for $265 + FET. So you talking under $600 for a new set. I would just get a set of new tires on the steering axle and feel safer driving down the road.
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