RV'ers with No Goodyear G670 Problems

A retired tire engineer indicated to me that the principal cause of rivering was inflation. He said "Too many people inflate for the ride rather than for the load." He then added that the next biggest cause were shocks that were not up to the job. He also said that of course you will never convince the consumer of this, because they know it all. I might add that he never worked for GY.

I think this is all quite funny, as I sold tires for way toooo many years, and the consumer has not changed. One could never convince a consumer that the abnormal wear pattern was caused by their lack of maintenance, it was always the manufacturers fault.

Cbones wrote:

What is the value of a topic if you cannot share opposing views? There are thousands of posts of problems with these tires. Tire dealers that carry Goodyears and other brands acknowledge problems, and people who drive trucks for a living prefer other brands for their steer tires. I guess this is just Internet hype. To me a small sampling of folks who love their Goodyears cannot outweigh the thousands of negative posts that are all over. I am getting off my soap box now, and I am going to start a new topic for people who only have no problems with their Yugo cars;)

I think what the op was trying to do is show that there are a lot of owners who also did not have problems with there GoodYears, there's a ton of info about problems with the tires, and people generally do not come on these forums to say how good there tires we're.

That said if I we're in the market to buy tires, I don't think I would want to take a chance on the goodyears.
Our new coach will be coming with them, so I guess in a year or so we'll see what side of the fence end up on regarding them. I'll watch the front tires closely and will change them to something else if necessary, but I'm hopping to get a decent service life out of them.

mdprince wrote:

Cbones wrote:
All I can offer is anecdotal evidence. I had the G670s on my coach from new. I had several alignments where different facilities each told me that the coach required no adjustment. . I have had nothing but rivering issues and exceptionally hard ride for 60,000 miles. I switched to Michelins, and it feels like better than a new ride. The ride is so much softer and less jarring, it is like night and day. I will NEVER put these******tires on this or another coach. To me the Michelins were worth the premium.

I'm sorta reading between the lines here, but it seems that you just might 'not' be an RV'er with No Goodyear G670 Problems.........

Kinda makes me want to start a thread for folks who agree that 2 + 2 = 4, and see what gets posted !!! lol

What is the value of a topic if you cannot share opposing views? There are thousands of posts of problems with these tires. Tire dealers that carry Goodyears and other brands acknowledge problems, and people who drive trucks for a living prefer other brands for their steer tires. I guess this is just Internet hype. To me a small sampling of folks who love their Goodyears cannot outweigh the thousands of negative posts that are all over. I am getting off my soap box now, and I am going to start a new topic for people who only have no problems with their Yugo cars;)

Cbones wrote:
All I can offer is anecdotal evidence. I had the G670s on my coach from new. I had several alignments where different facilities each told me that the coach required no adjustment. . I have had nothing but rivering issues and exceptionally hard ride for 60,000 miles. I switched to Michelins, and it feels like better than a new ride. The ride is so much softer and less jarring, it is like night and day. I will NEVER put these******tires on this or another coach. To me the Michelins were worth the premium.

I'm sorta reading between the lines here, but it seems that you just might 'not' be an RV'er with No Goodyear G670 Problems.........

Kinda makes me want to start a thread for folks who agree that 2 + 2 = 4, and see what gets posted !!! lol

Rivering is a real problem with theG670s.
Shocks is one of the excuses given by Goodyear.There was 4,000 miles on the coach when we first noticed the problem.
Sitting at the RV factory repair 2 years ago there were several there that had the tires changed or were getting them changed, just up the road because of rivering.
It is clear not all G670s performed badly. We still have four on the rear of the coach. They ride hard and will be replaced with Michelins for that reason.

Sully2 wrote:

Cbones wrote:
All I can offer is anecdotal evidence. I had the G670s on my coach from new. I had several alignments where different facilities each told me that the coach required no adjustment. . I have had nothing but rivering issues and exceptionally hard ride for 60,000 miles. I switched to Michelins, and it feels like better than a new ride. The ride is so much softer and less jarring, it is like night and day. I will NEVER put these******tires on this or another coach. To me the Michelins were worth the premium.

And all I can offer is evidence to the contrary. 5 years..approx 30,xxx miles...never had any sort of alignment...no rivering at all...Inflated to 120 psi front and 110 psi rear.....

If it werent for the FACT that one day here I spent all day calling LG tire joints and they all acted like they had the very last set of tires available in the USA and wnated WAR prices for them.....Id redo my coact in 2013 with them again.

Did someone mention Michelins?? At $902 $$$ EACH here Id drive mine on the rims and replace them....

We are close Scully, I run 115 front, 110 rear. No rivering, no blowout, no issues.MMMM, I guess my tires are bad.

The Goodyear bashers are always here. Here is a question...do all these tire places know alignment specs for your coach? Do you? I do, never had a problem on second set now. There is nothing wrong with these tires. if there were we would ALL have problems. 2 blowouts in one day! and you think its goodyears fault? Do you really know the odds of that happening. As I said before, know one on here is ever at fault, its always the tires!

Cbones wrote:
All I can offer is anecdotal evidence. I had the G670s on my coach from new. I had several alignments where different facilities each told me that the coach required no adjustment. . I have had nothing but rivering issues and exceptionally hard ride for 60,000 miles. I switched to Michelins, and it feels like better than a new ride. The ride is so much softer and less jarring, it is like night and day. I will NEVER put these******tires on this or another coach. To me the Michelins were worth the premium.

And all I can offer is evidence to the contrary. 5 years..approx 30,xxx miles...never had any sort of alignment...no rivering at all...Inflated to 120 psi front and 110 psi rear.....

If it werent for the FACT that one day here I spent all day calling LG tire joints and they all acted like they had the very last set of tires available in the USA and wnated WAR prices for them.....Id redo my coact in 2013 with them again.

Did someone mention Michelins?? At $902 $$$ EACH here Id drive mine on the rims and replace them....

All I can offer is anecdotal evidence. I had the G670s on my coach from new. I had several alignments where different facilities each told me that the coach required no adjustment. . I have had nothing but rivering issues and exceptionally hard ride for 60,000 miles. I switched to Michelins, and it feels like better than a new ride. The ride is so much softer and less jarring, it is like night and day. I will NEVER put these******tires on this or another coach. To me the Michelins were worth the premium.

5 year old G670's.
Stored 100% inside
Inflated to GY specs and Winnie Specs
2 Blowouts in 1 day.
Enough said.