Tires For E450

lane hog wrote:
Replacing all six of my tires on our E450 Minnie, and considering the following options:

BFG Commercial TA
Cooper Discoverer HT3
Cooper Discoverer HTP

I’ve run Uniroyal Loredo’s, Cooper Discover HT, and Michelin LTX’s and now have two of each on our rig. It’s time to go back to a matched set, but I can’t justify the cost of the Michelin’s after the problems we had with the cracking on them.

Any experience with these? All come in at about $150 a tire plus installation.

I think that Michelin has fixed the cracking problem.

Starting with their Defender LT series, I believe that they changed the material used in the sidewalls of their popular Class C tire sizes when they brought out their Defender line. I've had Defender M&S (Mud & Snow) tires on our Class C now for a few years and not a sign of cracking, no road noise at all, and outstanding (lack of) tread wear.

Michelin now even has an improved line above the Defender in the 225/75R16E size. They call it their Agilis® CrossClimate tire:
https://www.michelinman.com/tire/michelin/agilis-crossclimate/245-75-r16-120-r--bsw?fromResultList=searchEngineByVeh&zipCode=95030

I refuse to price shop for RV tires for a bunch of reasons, so I'm going to continue to go with Michelin - but always being careful with which one of their tires I have installed. Tire dealers sometimes try to install "what they recommend" or "what they have in stock". I do my homework and go into the dealer and demand a specific tire size and type for our RV, even if it means that they have to special order it.

Things I watch for are such criteria as the weight of the tire for any given size (heavier means more material), tread type for a given size (Mud & Snow tread is best to deal with bad weather), tread thickness, tread wear rating, and length of warranty.

(I've also changed tire size from what came stock on our Class C ... in order to increase ground clearance just a bit.)