New Michelin LTX M/S recall 225/75R-16

Sagecoachdriver wrote:

F1bNorm wrote:
A heads up.
Last summer we replaced the orig. LTX M/S with M/S2. (The orig. were aged out and cracking).

It transformed our really nice handling 24' B+ into a squirming mess. Had the rig weighed, adjusted tire inflations, nothing was helping.

Dealer, America's Tire, was very good about exchanging the tires for Mich XPS. (We had to pay the diff in price)

Bottom line- if you get the MS2's (or any tire) give it a good run before putting it in storage.

Norm

F1bNorm stated nothing helped with the squirming. Did you get an alignment and how many miles on your shocks? Could it be radial wandering from the grooves cut into the pavement? I would call Michelin and ask them about it.

The old tires were fine except for age and sidewall cracking. It was literally an overnight change from good handling to very poor. Shocks (Bilsteins) and alignment were less than a year and I know how groove chasing feels and this wasn't it. I was also told that there was a brief break-in period on new tires, I understand that so I put 400 miles on them just to be sure. No change. Call one to Michelin referred me to another dealer to check verify pressure. Did so, no improvement.

Call two to Michelin and the rep's explanation was the MS/2 has softer sidewalls for a better ride and to try XPS. The XPS's cured the problem.

As first stated was this was a heads up so one doesn't get the tires changed, put their MH in storage for 3 months, and then find out they had a problem. Didn't say MS/2's were bad and don't buy them.

BTW, I'm not new at this and it isn't the first time I have had to have tires exchanged. Sorry if my first explanation and intent wasn't clear.

Norm