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    On 1/29/2020 at 7:32 AM, manholt said:

    RATTLER.  Welcome to the Forum!

    I have had 295's Michelin's, 8 & 6, 295's with 2,  315 Steer tires  also Michelin...dry rot after 4 1/2 years.  Now I have 315 (8) BFGoodrich!  Under 90 days old is my benchmark, if it's more than that, get a discount...2 years old? No thanks!

    Thru FMCA Fleet, we get a discount on Michelin, BFG, Continental and Hancook, they are all good tires!  I think Continental has 235, if not then 245's may be Ok!

    The Michelin coach tires had a UV fighting compound and I'm just replacing 11 year old tires that still have no separation issues. I'm going to tell you how your RV is stored plays into the equation. Outside storage in all kinds of weather you'll replace them much more often than a unit stored indoors where no UV light is present.

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    On 9/16/2019 at 4:55 PM, mhumm38 said:

    Anyone running these?

    I spent 20 years in the tractor trailer world. We were very picky about which tires to run on the steering axle. I always ran Sumitomo on the steering axle and nothing else. In my opinion these are better than any Michelin tire and has a much better price. The tire has a much more substantial sidewall where the Michelins have a much lighter more flexible sidewall and tire ear was never an issue . We have a 40' Prevost and I'm shopping for tires if Sumitomo had a 315 80R22.5 in a steering tread that's what I'd buy, but they don't.

    We have a commercial bus outfit near here that is part of the Greyhound system. They are running Firestone FS400s. I just don't have anything good to say about Firestone but I'm also old enough to remember the Firestone 500 poppers and the 721s that followed from the late 70s and the Firestones are within $10 0f Michelins price.

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