Posted by Kevin in Ohio on Saturday, March 03, 2007 at 20:08:18 :
In Reply to: Re: michelins - I would not use any thing else posted by mike stone the COTWM on Saturday, March 03, 2007 at 19:19:23 :
We went to the dealer first and they said they couldn't do anything. We ask for a Michelin rep and when we called them they said the same. As Stated earlier, We DID overload them, 500 gal of 32% nitrogen weighs over 5000 lbs plus weight of spray rig on a single wheel rear. Tires always had 80 PSI. Again, we ran all brands before these and NONE were load rated. One blew once but it was wore through the cord which was our own fault. We had 2 spray trucks and one other truck that was basically just transportation to and from farms to feed. Most weight the 3rd truck had on it was 400 lbs of hog supplement and 3 tires went on that truck so I don't think the weight argument works. I was easy to see after a while as I was following my boss and noticed one of the rears was moving back and forth while driving down the road and said he noticed a vibration. When we inspected that tires you could physically see they were twisted on the tread. I guess that is what you call a belt shift? We took the tire off and that night it blew while OFF the truck in the shop. We needed a tire with off road tread as we were spreading fertilizer and herbicides and that's hard to get in a load rated tire. We ended up going with Cooper's after the michelins and never had a problem, just like before the Michelins. They had a problem and refused to do anything about so I'm not going to let it slide. When a company treats consumers this way they should expect to get called out on it. When they ordered more trucks they made the dealer change the tires if the came in with Michelins. They said they had no control over brands. I just doesn't make sense for a premium tire not to be able to handle what a Sears Town and Country did for years. We ran those 33's for years until they quit the tread pattern. Kevin
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