As an owner driver who looks after his tyres im considering going for ‘the best money can buy’. Currently using Bridgestone all round and while I’m not unhappy with their performance I like the idea of getting 3 lives out of a Michelin tyre (first life, remix and encore retread). Newmercman you may like to drop in and explain a bit in detail of the rolling resistance of the different Michelin tyres available!
What sort of money are you guys paying for your 295/80 and 385/65 Michelins and in you’re opinion are they really worth the extra money over say a Bridgestone or hankook?
Yes we need to know how to work out the rolling resistance without having to listen to a tyre sales persons waffle!
I myself don’t like the thought of running a tyre that’s basically been remoulded twice
you can get 6 lifes out of a Michelin … matt… 1st life then recut, remix then recut, encoure it and re cut aswell… but boy has that casing done some mileage after all those lifes… I wouldn’t have any more encoures given even if they was for free…
a encoure tyre doesn’t mean its a Michelin tyre casing either… some say encores are decent !! but the ones we have had didn’t last all blew out , only ever used Michelins on all the trucks we run …super singles steers, and 295 steers and drives, but slowly trying hancooks , continentals and goodyears now… so time will tell
I only ever put mich on the front particularly after nearly losing my trousers with a drivers front blowout down Monmouth hill with 30 tonne on, the mich probly would have gone as well but I’m OCD about tyres now.
I don’t think Mich are worth the premium over say Bridge or Conti though, Hankook are a tier below IMO but still good.
My Mich fettish on the front is fairly unreasonable I know, I’m sure bridge & conti
Would be ok on the front. Someone said hankook were slippy on the drive in a recent thread, two fellows in fact.