New tires for Pleasureway

Can't go wrong with Michelins. I couldn't believe the improvement in handling when I upgraded from Hankooks.

We have put Cooper Discoverer AT3 on our PW Excel. We wanted a little more traction on National Forest roads/trails. We are very happy with the highway handling and lack of added noise. They are the top rated rain tire. Consider putting the next size tire up from the stock size. Doing so will give you a little higher tire maximum weight.

I've had numerous tire failures with Hankook tires that came as original equipment on my Ford PW. Replaced with Toyo Open Country and am not having good luck with these either. They are starting to fail after around 27,000 miles. Neither of these two companies provide customer service that will address these tire failures so I'm onto either Michlein XPS or BF Goodrich Commercial TAs (made by Michelin).

Actually I'd have to say that Hankook had the absolute worst customer service I've ever experienced from anyone period.

My 2006 PW Lexor/ Chev has the LTX MS2 Michelins- Costco. 245 75 16

weight rating: 3042@80psi lbs

these are rated for 70,000 miles ( and that's 20K more than the Goodyear Fortera or Bridgestone Dueler according to Costco website)

right now about $670 for 4 ( that's with $70 off)


I would suggest ( with any tire shop/brand) check the DOT date code- don't let them put old tires on your van- anything older than 6 months is reducing your potential use of the tire.
Tires are really only good for 6 years...if you buy a 1 year old tire...then you get 5 years out of it.


2.) unless you are using your van over the winter, wait until spring then you'll gain another few months of useable tire life.
possible that with oil prices down that tire prices may drop in the future.

if you are using your van- weather is a concern, make sure you have great tires for stopping power & control on poor/slick surfaces.

rotation is important and I rotate at about 5000 miles ( costco does for free!).

If you miss rotations and pile up some miles, do not swap side to side- swap front to rear and rear to front, that way the direction of rotation stays the same. better for the belts if they have "bedded in" to one direction to retain that direction of rotation.

have the shop take the best of your old tires and mount that on your spare- unless your current spare date code is within reason




Mike