Wanli Motorhome Tires

Bruce Brown wrote:

rgatijnet1 wrote:
I'll bet that most people on this forum would chose Michelin tires IF someone else was paying for them. :B

Honestly, Michelins would be my last choice, on anything.

I just replaced the Michelins on my Super Duty, 60,000 mile rated tire, wouldn't pass NYS inspection at 28,000 miles. That was my 3rd Super Duty with those tires, the best set made it just over 30,000 miles.

Well, as stated earlier, I'm sporting brand new Yokahamas in place of the cracked Michelins I had that were only 6.5 years old and 40K miles on them. Not only that but, that coach is parked INSIDE an RV garage for its entire life that we're not out using it. So, it's (and the tires) have had the best of care ever since we purchased it just over 6 years ago.

The Michelins that were on it, were proprietary in size. 255 x 80R x 22.5". I searched quite a bit trying to find other makes in that size. Pretty darn tough to find. So, I upped the size a tiny bit to 265 x 75 x 22." and paid a whole heck of a lot less for the Yokahamas. Very happy with the results.
Scott

CKNSLS wrote:

Bruce Brown wrote:

bigred1cav wrote:
I think when my life and my family's life depends on tires, I want US Made tires.

Good luck finding that. With today's world economy every brand has tires built all over the world.

BigRed

Then when your on the road stay away from big rigs-many running Chinese made "Double Coin" tires and others made overseas.

Correct. Many many trucks run them. Double Coin actually has a good reputation. My parents had them at one point, they served them well.

rgatijnet1 wrote:
I'll bet that most people on this forum would chose Michelin tires IF someone else was paying for them. :B

Honestly, Michelins would be my last choice, on anything.

I just replaced the Michelins on my Super Duty, 60,000 mile rated tire, wouldn't pass NYS inspection at 28,000 miles. That was my 3rd Super Duty with those tires, the best set made it just over 30,000 miles.

gutfelt wrote:

rgatijnet1 wrote:
I've never had a bit of trouble with Michelins. I remember one guy posted on here recently that his Michelins were 10 years old, still fine, and asking what he should do. Naturally most of the recommendations were to get some cheaper Chinese brands, even tho it was obvious he knew how to take care of his tires and just got 10 years of service from his Michelins.
I can count on one hand the number of people I have seen checking their tire pressure before hitting the road each morning. One guy even mentioned that his TPMS was going off but that it would stop as soon as he started driving down the highway.
I am convinced that most RV owners do not keep their tires properly inflated and that is what causes most of the problems. They treat them the same way as they do the tires on the cars.

Michelins are notorious for side wall cracking everyone knows that
there also the most expensive :: tires mounted and sealed properly should not need constant AP checking :: people that check AP every day are a tire leak in themselves

There is nothing wrong with checking air pressure in your tires. Tires are not infallible. While construction techniques and SOME quality control has improved over the years, the potential for tires to simply seep air, is still there. It may not happen very often but, it does now and then. I have no proof of it but it's been said that "Capillary action" is one of the reasons for ultra-slow leak down of certain tires. I'm not gonna lose sleep over it. I don't check mine each and every morning.
I turn on my TPM system and, see what it has to say. Many times it squawks at me for a short distance then quiets down. If and when I get around to checking them, when they're cold that is, they're always at the same pressure I set them at, the last time I checked them.
Scott

rgatijnet1 wrote:
I've never had a bit of trouble with Michelins. I remember one guy posted on here recently that his Michelins were 10 years old, still fine, and asking what he should do. Naturally most of the recommendations were to get some cheaper Chinese brands, even tho it was obvious he knew how to take care of his tires and just got 10 years of service from his Michelins.
I can count on one hand the number of people I have seen checking their tire pressure before hitting the road each morning. One guy even mentioned that his TPMS was going off but that it would stop as soon as he started driving down the highway.
I am convinced that most RV owners do not keep their tires properly inflated and that is what causes most of the problems. They treat them the same way as they do the tires on the cars.

Michelins are notorious for side wall cracking everyone knows that
there also the most expensive :: tires mounted and sealed properly should not need constant AP checking :: people that check AP every day are a tire leak in themselves

rgatijnet1 wrote:
I'll bet that most people on this forum would chose Michelin tires IF someone else was paying for them. :B

Not if you paid me to use them. I would rather run six different brands of used Chinese tires.

Been running Hankook AH12's for 5 years and 30K miles, very satisfied but had an inside dual blow-out on a tire that was 7 years old and hence needed to shop.

Replaced both inside duals (other was also 7 years old-datecode ignorance on my part).

Ended up putting 2017 date code Ironman I-502's made in China. These are 275/70/22.5's and are a J rated 18ply tire. Price was significantly lower than the Hankook's which I could not find locally.

After a 2500 mile trip up to Nashville, down the Nachez Trace and thru Mississippi, Alabama and the panhandle for Florida they have performed as expected (that is , I cannot tell the difference from their smooth riding predecessors).

Ironman is a subsidiary of Hercules and is really just re-branded as Hercules also has a line of I-502 all position commercial tires.

I know Chinese tires are a controversial subject, but J rated tires for 275/70/22.5 tires is kind of cool IMHO.

Bruce Brown wrote:

bigred1cav wrote:
I think when my life and my family's life depends on tires, I want US Made tires.

Good luck finding that. With today's world economy every brand has tires built all over the world.

BigRed

Then when your on the road stay away from big rigs-many running Chinese made "Double Coin" tires and others made overseas.

I've never had a bit of trouble with Michelins. I remember one guy posted on here recently that his Michelins were 10 years old, still fine, and asking what he should do. Naturally most of the recommendations were to get some cheaper Chinese brands, even tho it was obvious he knew how to take care of his tires and just got 10 years of service from his Michelins.
I can count on one hand the number of people I have seen checking their tire pressure before hitting the road each morning. One guy even mentioned that his TPMS was going off but that it would stop as soon as he started driving down the highway.
I am convinced that most RV owners do not keep their tires properly inflated and that is what causes most of the problems. They treat them the same way as they do the tires on the cars.

rgatijnet1 wrote:
I'll bet that most people on this forum would chose Michelin tires IF someone else was paying for them. :B

Not after reading of all the sidewall cracking and zipper blowouts on this forum.
I would not put my family in that kind of danger. :E