I am kind of surprised by the reports of dissatisfaction with Michelin LTX tires. Our LTV came with Michelin LTX A/S tires and I have continued to use Michelins with none of the problems others have reported. Our LTV does have Firestone Ride-Rite air bags that stiffen up the rear suspension. Our experience:
- In 2008, replaced original tires at 54K miles with LTX A/S tires, actually bought three and used spare as fourth tire.
- In 2011, replaced 3+1 set at 87K miles, not because they were near needing replacement but because I was driving the LTV to Alaska with two grandsons and didn't want to take any chances (especially since the spare was at that point at least six years old). The new ones were LTX M/S tires.
- This year, Michelin recalled the tires I bought in 2011 as part of their recall of those tires. The replacement tires are LTX M/S2 tires. The replaced tires had over 30K miles on them including the Alaska trip but had lots of miles left. Michelin's recall was "at no cost to the customer" no matter how many miles they had on them so they were free.
I had been happy with my Michelin's before, but now I am really happy.:)
Michelin's recall was due to a piece of manufacturing equipment that had been out of spec and shaved the sidewalls too much during one period of manufacture.
Mud and snow performance are probably not features of these tires, although in the few times I have been in snow in the LTV I didn 't experience any problem.
The only flat tire I have had in 120K miles was from a screw I picked up on the highway somewhere and it resulted in a slow leak.
