Rear Tires

[Tom_Barb]

Noticed today our rear tires are finally down to the minimum wear indicators. We put them on in 2009, at 8600 miles, today we indicate 73,000 miles.
I guess we will replace with another set of Michelins XA2 or 3 before we go one any more long trips.

[Tom_Barb]

In ten years of ownership we have place only 60,000 miles on the coach, I don't believe I need another 150,000 mile tires.
If I do keep the coach for another 10 years before I sell the buyer will believe the tires need to be changed anyway.

[js218]

11R24.5 mistyped again.

[js218]

12 year old grand son, fat fingers mistyped again.

[js218]

It's a class 8 truck I guess I'm used to the ride, air ride seats smooth out the long hours behind the wheel. Just left Delaware taking my 22 year old grand son on a trip to Lake Tahoe then swing up into Canada.

[js218]

Correct. .... I have 8 XDN2 tires on the drive axels an X line Energy for the steers, a 11R25.5 mounted on Alcoa aluminum wheels.

[Tom_Barb]

coach tires

[Tom_Barb]

js218 wrote:
Yep and replaced with the same Michelin tires, all season drives and directional steers, basically semi truck tire, load range H.

The coach tire is a load range "G" the truck tire is a load range "H" can it make that much difference?

research shows that the truck tire has more tread.
but does it ride harder?

[js218]

Yep and replaced with the same Michelin tires, all season drives and directional steers, basically semi truck tire, load range H.

[Tom_Barb]

js218 wrote:
Just replaced all 10 of my rigs tires plus 4 on the trailer 2 years and 8 months old with 249,850 miles. Went with Michelins.

Are you saying you got 149.000 miles out of a set of tires ?

[js218]

149,850 miles fat fingers mistyped. ...

[js218]

Just replaced all 10 of my rigs tires plus 4 on the trailer 2 years and 8 months old with 249,850 miles. Went with Michelins.

[Ivylog]

Someone actually wore out a set of Michelin’s before the sidewall cracks got to big...amazing. I went 10 years on my 6 rear tires and they still look good on the back of my dump truck...15 years old.

[Tom_Barb]

twodownzero wrote:
I'm just amazed that ten year old tires didn't shred themselves on the highway.

Coming up from Texas last week we were running 65 +- MPH in 90- degree heat, no problems.

Lots of CYA built into tire warrantees, What I worry about most is road hazard damage.

[PNW_Steve]

When I worked around fleet vehicles they would "age out" tires when they hit 7 years old even if they still had tread.