Michelin LT failure
Well, I never expected to be writing this but I had a blowout on my second set of Michelin 16” LT load range E tires. They were only a year old. We were on our way back to Houston Tx a week ago fr...
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JIMNLIN wrote:
As the end user I'm not now or ever were concerned why my many ST tires failed me or for that matter any tire brand/type failed. I'm not talking a one tire issue but several.
I either change brands or tire types and moved on down the road happy from that point forward that my tires on my trailers stopped having those types of issues.
When a new tire that has never been on the ground and hanging on the back of a RV's rear bumper suddenly blows does that ring a bell with anyone. This is actually not a rare occurrence.
Jim, kind of relates to my situation. My trailer came OEM with Kenda Klever LT235/85R16E china bombs. Before I had a failure like many others with these junk tires, I talked Kenda into a deal. I had a choice of $110 dollars each for all five or Loadstar ST replacements. I took the $550 bucks and they asked that the Michelin Commercial tire shop that was installing my new XPS RIBs destroy the Kenda Klevers.
This was in the spring of 2005. I ran those RIBs for 6.5 years and 40K+ miles before replacing them with a set of Bridgestone Duravis R250's. A guy with an old Ford pickup that he used for garbage dump runs was tickled pink to buy four Ribs with 60-65% tread left for 200 bucks.
Then as the years counted by I heard of all the issues people were having with the Loadstar's. And at this point Kenda was not helping people a second time, as this chinese bicycle tire company had nothing else to offer. I made the right choice!!!!!
So the cost of the RIBs with 550 from Kenda and 200 from resell was not bad at all. I chose the R250's this time based on the fact that they are equal to the Ribs in quality and construction, and cost about 50 dollars less per tire.
Chris
