Best 245/75 R16 truck tires
I have had 2 sets of Michelin Tires on my Dodge 2500 Pickup. The first set from factory, the sidewalls rotted away with major cracks. Only 17000 on the clock. Always in the Garage, no tire dressing. ...
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parkmanaa wrote:
Been running Michelins on everything for 40+ years and NEVER a failure of ANY KIND. I will stay with my Michelins, thank you.
Do you ever run yours over 6 years? Some people have told me that Michelins are very good for up to 6 years but show a lot of dryrot after that. If fact, when I had a 7 year old Michelin suffer from explosive failure and returned it to Michelin for analysis their official response was that nobody in their right mind would run a tire over 6 years and they would not accept any responsibility for me having done so. Over the years I have come to agree with them but my complaint was that I have never seen that they have made any attempt to communicate that to the public but insisted that I should have known it anyway. The QC manager at Michelin also told me that he had seen a lot of problems with RV's that were parked loaded heavy for extended periods. Since then I have always tried to take a lot of the weight off of my tires when parked, especially for extended periods.
The op's profile says that he has a "Tow vehicle 1999 Dodge 2500 4X4, SRW, 5.9 Cummins" indicating that it is roughly 18 years old so he must be averaging 9 years per tire set. If so, I would say that is his real problem. I would just wish that the tire manufacturers would come up with some definition of how many years a tire should last and stick with it, even if the tire has never been sold and is still on a rack somewhere as a new tire.
