Michelin LTX AT2 failures
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Michelin LTX AT2 failures
Each of the 4 OEM Michelin LTX AT2 tires have failed on me. The first I replaced when a belt broke and started to bulge making the truck wobble at slow speeds. The second started to shake while I was towing by 5th wheel and before I could stop to check the tires it blew out. The third also bulged and I was able to swap it out before it blew. Well today the last of the OEM tires started to shake then blew out. I take care to make sure my tire pressure is right and my 5th wheel's GVWR is only 13k lbs. I only have 44k miles on the truck.
I'm wondering if anyone else has had trouble with the Michelin LTX AT2 tires. I would also like to hear from those that tow heavy, what tires do you use and are they holding up long term?
I'm wondering if anyone else has had trouble with the Michelin LTX AT2 tires. I would also like to hear from those that tow heavy, what tires do you use and are they holding up long term?
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I have the OEM Goodyear Wrangler tires and have had no issues, other than they won't make it to 30K based on tread depth. I tow an 11K GVWR bumper pull toy hauler with a tongue weight that gets up to about 1400 to 1500 lbs.
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I had the Michelin AT2s on yay older 150, my ‘18 250 and now my ‘19 250. So far, they’ve been awesome on all my trucks, no failures. That said, I had really bad luck with Cooper tires and won’t buy them again. Lots of people like them, great reviews. My point is, a lot of our opinions come from personal experience. Plenty of other tire options, Michelin may not be the best match for your needs as Cooper apparently wasn’t a good match for mine.
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100k out of a set of tires is nuts! I live in snow country so I generally end up swapping tires and not really being able to run them down to nothing. I usually run a wheel/tire combo for 15-20k miles then buy a set of new take-offs from CL and sell my set off. I've been doing this for years and I end up losing about 3-500 in the swap but never spend time at a tire shop and it ends up being pretty close to the same amount of money in the end (and I get new wheels every couple of years so they never show the corrosion from salt and brake dust).
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I have had two tires replaced on my 20 at 500 miles. These tires had soft uncured chunks of rubber in the tread. The dealership was very unsure of this. I actually contacted the NHSTA and Michelin directly. The tires were returned directly to Michelin.
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I tried a set of those and made the dealer take them off after a week, they rode horribly and shook like crazy. My truck is loaded with 3000lbs all the time, and I drive mostly in the city. ( new orleans where the streets are third world quality) I now have a set if general grabbers and they ride super smooth and quiet. They are softer and wear quicker but the ride is amazing, too smooth for off road though.
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It's good to hear that most people have good luck with the OEM Michelins. I did load the rear tires pretty heavy while carrying a truck camper for about 1000miles. The rear axle scale weight with the truck camper was 7200lbs, very close to the load limit of the Michelins. I have sold the truck camper and only pull the 5th wheel now the rear axle weight with the 5th wheel is 6500lbs. After a total of 4 tire failures (2 blowouts) over the past 16months I have become quite paranoid when driving. Every strange sound practically triggers PTSD. I am tempted to switch to a dually but going back into debt isn't appealing and I really love my 2014. Hopefully, my tire problems are behind me now that the truck camper is no longer a factor.
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No problems with my OEM Michelins so far. 245x75x17's with 30K miles on my dually and they're wearing great. May upsize to a little taller and wider tire for a different look when these wear out.
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Your weights should not be a factor. Other than premature wear, I've run weights that heavy on all my various truck tires towing my previous 2 5th wheels. OE Michelins, GY Wrangler AT Adventure, etc. Whatever the issue, I don't believed it was your weight. Tires are designed to handle their max rated load and many would say there is more capacity built in there as an engineering safety factor. I'm betting a bad lot of tires is more the issue. Have you replaced them with a different brand of tire going forward?
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As they failed one by one I replaced them with the same Michelin tire. Now that all 4 have failed, if there were others with a history of these tires failing I would be willing to replace them all with another more reliable tire. But it sounds like there is not a pattern of these tires failing. I keep the rear tires at 80psi and don't travel faster than 70 with or without the trailer. I hope I can regain confidence in the tires.
QUOTE=Karl4Cat;19399523]Your weights should not be a factor. Other than premature wear, I've run weights that heavy on all my various truck tires towing my previous 2 5th wheels. OE Michelins, GY Wrangler AT Adventure, etc. Whatever the issue, I don't believed it was your weight. Tires are designed to handle their max rated load and many would say there is more capacity built in there as an engineering safety factor. I'm betting a bad lot of tires is more the issue. Have you replaced them with a different brand of tire going forward?[/QUOTE]
QUOTE=Karl4Cat;19399523]Your weights should not be a factor. Other than premature wear, I've run weights that heavy on all my various truck tires towing my previous 2 5th wheels. OE Michelins, GY Wrangler AT Adventure, etc. Whatever the issue, I don't believed it was your weight. Tires are designed to handle their max rated load and many would say there is more capacity built in there as an engineering safety factor. I'm betting a bad lot of tires is more the issue. Have you replaced them with a different brand of tire going forward?[/QUOTE]
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I got nearly 70k on my stock Michelin tires on my 16. I could have actually gone another 5 to 10k before totally bald but we were doing a rebate deal at work (independent repair/tire shop) so I bought another set of them. I did notice the new set has more visible ply splices(1/2" wide depressions in the sidewall running from bead to tread) than the stock ones, Michelin is normally know for no visible splices and easy balancing, but I also had trouble getting them balanced right, took 3 tries. I've got 10k on them so far though with no issues. No idea if they recently had problems or not, our distributing warehouse say they haven't heard of any complaints either.
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I also got good service from my stock Michelin's. I got about 50,000 miles out of them. I also pull a 5er 13,000 Lbs. Only thing I didn't like about them is they pick up small rocks and throw them all over my truck. So I went to a larger tread pattern and now they pick up bigger rocks. LOL I would go back to the Michelin's in the future.
As for blow outs and bad tires with separation. If one is bad than chances are that the set is also bad. When Ford buys tires they get a bunch at a time and they probably come from the same batch.
As for blow outs and bad tires with separation. If one is bad than chances are that the set is also bad. When Ford buys tires they get a bunch at a time and they probably come from the same batch.
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