Tires?
Mountain Pass
Joined: Sep 2005
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From: Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
I wish I had purchased Michelins after replacing my OE Goodyear Wranglers with Yokohama Geolanders on my 97 Exp EB 4x4. The GY's were fine and gave great wear/ride, but I've had great success iwth Yoko's on my BMW street/track cars, so I thought I'd give their SUV tire a try. Got them on a great sale from TireRack, and afterwards found out they were discontinued (for good reason, keep reading.) Almost half the price of Michelin LTX's.
Well, my local indep shop installed them and had to use tons of weights just to get them to balance, then two of them were out of round and had to be replaced by TireRack. The rest never balanced well (after repeated attempts) and there always seems to be some "thump" in them, which has only slowly gone away with wear and rotation. One tire even began cupping badly on the front left side and had to relegate to the rear axle permanantly.
My wife will divorce me if I buy another set of Yoko's for the truck (she drives it a lot), so when they get close to worn out I'm plunking down the bucks to go for the sure thing, Michelin LTX's. You pay a high premium for the name, but the performance is there.
My 2 cents worth!
Well, my local indep shop installed them and had to use tons of weights just to get them to balance, then two of them were out of round and had to be replaced by TireRack. The rest never balanced well (after repeated attempts) and there always seems to be some "thump" in them, which has only slowly gone away with wear and rotation. One tire even began cupping badly on the front left side and had to relegate to the rear axle permanantly.
My wife will divorce me if I buy another set of Yoko's for the truck (she drives it a lot), so when they get close to worn out I'm plunking down the bucks to go for the sure thing, Michelin LTX's. You pay a high premium for the name, but the performance is there.
My 2 cents worth!
More Turbo
Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 521
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From: Alexandria, Ohio
I got 85000 miles out of the stock Goodyear Wrangler RTS on my '98 Expy 2wd. I put the same on and now have 150000 on them. The ball joints and shocks need changed so this set is not going to last as long because of it. My wifes '04 Explorer has Michelins and at 37000 they are wore down as much as my RTS's. The Explorer is AWD though. I rotate every 2 or 3 oil changes, 10 to 15k.
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