Tires - To Sipe or Not to Sipe Toyo M154s

valhalla360 wrote:
Who are these people you keep referring to? The average MH owner has little to no knowledge of tire design...so your assertions regarding quality are suspect to begin with.

I stand by my original statement that if it was needed, the manufacturer would provide it.

1. I was not talking about design. There a tons of reports, here and other sites, of very early sidewall checking on the Michelins, despite very little UV exposure. I don't know where you got that MH owners are critiquing the design. They're simply reporting what happened to their OEM tires. Perhaps Michelin has solved that problem. If more owners hadn't felt burned by Michelin, I'm sure more of them would have stuck with the OEM tires to find out.

2. The manufacturer designed the Toyos to be best suited as steers. If you go to the webpage for these tires, you will see them "Recommended" as steers and "Suitable" as drives.

And if you click "Drive" tires, "22.5" on the same Toyo website, you will not see the M154 model listed.

The problem is, Toyo doesn't have a drive tire anywhere near the same size as the OEM. Nor does anyone else that I could find.

The Toyo M154s are very close in size to the OEM. The speedometer might run a mile or two off at 60 mph. Yokohama makes one that guys seem to like and a few other manufacturers do as well. I believe I was able to find 6 brands / models. My research indicates that the majority of owners have opted for these Toyos.

So partly because the OEM tires were a proprietary size, the Toyos are considered by many owners of Freightliner DPs... that came with the Michelin tire in question... to be one of the best options for replacement of the OEM tire that was known to have premature checking issues.

And yes. I respect your decision to stand by your statement. Hopefully that means we can both move on.

Cheers