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Dec 31, 2007 | 05:51 AM

#16

XHunter

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From: Marietta, GA

just want to throw this out there...........Michelins are always great tires, but from what I understand Michelin makes the BFGs, I'll be going with the BFGs as they have a more aggressive tread pattern than Michelin does...but should be close in quality. I just wish they weren't French! But even Bridgestone is made in Japan even though they are an American company.

Dec 31, 2007 | 09:39 AM

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scottman70

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Originally Posted by davecarpe

I have no idea why some of you complain about the Michelins. I bought them because when I did my homework they were recommended by Excursion owners over every brand I could find and I checked a lot of places. I have had my Michelin LTX M/S for over 60K miles this far and they still have tons of tread left.

I don't run them in the Winter any more since I am a firm believer in Winter Tires for best performance in cold weather. They tires are great though. They ride and drive well and wear like iron with my 2002 Exucrsion with 7.3L PSD.

Yeah you know I heard nothing but good things about Michelins. So I bought 4 LTX m+s spent over $800 for everything, and the dang things wore out in 28k miles and they were rotated 3 times within 28k? I was pretty pissed about that and will never drop my hard earned cash on those tires ever again. Then I bought Toyo Open Country AT's and wore those out in 30k, BUT hey I paid $275 dollars less for the Toyo's, so no camplaint there! Don't know how you guys get 60k out of a tire, here in AZ that's unheard of. Maybe it's the heat out here or something, but geez I see tires on friends trucks and if you get 50k out of a tire around here thats a miracle! Your Michelins gotta be balded out by 60k, your case I would think is more rare than most I have talked to!!
I have used tons of different tires, because of my work trucks, we have tried BFG's Toyo's, Michelins, Firestone, Briidgestones. The longest wearing tire I have seen to date is the BFG Rugged Trail T/A-load E range, have 49k on a set of those and they still look like about 50% tread still left! I am impressed by those tires for sure!!

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Dec 31, 2007 | 10:02 AM

#18

jjbirish

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Originally Posted by scottman70

my one son and I had the same truck for work... they came with the same tires and had the same care yet he had to replace his often and the brakes needed worked on often... when it was all said and done and the trucks were replaced he changed rotors more often than I did tires... he is convinced the truck was a lemon...

the AZ heat will have a effect, but the biggest effect comes from good maintenance and good driving habits that accounts for most of the tire ware...

I wouldn't rotate a tire based on milage, that only gives you evenly bad ware if there is a problem... rotating is for keeping the ware even, but only after all repairs and adjustments are corrceted, frequent inspections tell you what is needed before it becomes a problem...
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30,000 miles is incredibly low tire mileage, if you ask me I don't believe the brand of the tire is the problem though...<O

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Dec 31, 2007 | 10:48 AM

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davecarpe

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From: Northwest New Jersey

You know if you are wearing out tires in 30K miles, that suggests something else is wrong. Have you been checking alighnment and inflation pressures?

I had a problem like that on my old Taurus SHO and those tires made truck tires seem cheap. It turned out to be bad tie rod ends and messed up alignmnet that cause me to chew up my tires.