Lazy Daze Owners' Group

About your tires....

April 29, 2006, 07:27:28 pm

Yahoo Message Number: 66078

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Since some LD folks are in the market for new tires, I just uploaded a tire information presentation titled, "About Your Tires" to the Files section. The information was developed for (and presented at) Ladeze get-togethers; the content has been updated where relevant.
(Tire manufacturers can frequently change the designations and specs of their tires; always be sure to verify that you're really buying what you think you are!)

An additional point that isn't covered in the material is to make sure that the tires you buy are of the newest possible manufacture, i.e., within a (very) few months, and that all are of *very similar* manufacture dates.  A tire shop will not do this unless you insist; they want to clear out those old ones that have been sitting for a year or two.

If anyone has tire questions, email me at jctaylor1941 at yahoo dot com and I'll try to answer (or at least direct you to the possible source of the answer).  I hope that the information is helpful to those of you who intend to buy new tires.

Joan

Re: About your tires....

Reply #2 – April 30, 2006, 10:29:08 am

Yahoo Message Number: 66092

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"Terry Tanner"  wrote:
 "AboutTires.doc" is a very comprehensive summary and I thank you for it. I will be buying tires for my 2001 26RB in the next month and am looking at the Michelin tires.  I too wanted an "all steel" tire, but the Michelin XPS Rib is not rated M/S (Mud and Snow) while the polyester sidewall Michelin LTX M/S is.  It is a difficult choice ---- Thank you; I'm glad that the doc was useful to you! Getting the "best" replacement tires *is* a difficult choice, and an expensive one whatever we end up hanging on the axle ends.  I think that the ultimate choice of the "right" tires (For one's LD, in this case) is largely influenced by the model and *its weight*, the type and frequency of driving that the owner does, how savvy the owner is about not letting a tire shop make his/her choice for him/her (or just accepting whatever the dealer happens to have on the shelf), and the total cost of 6 new "shoes".  (That last one is usually sufficient to addle one's brain into thinking that cheaper might be better!)

So far, I have no complaints about the stock Michelin LTX M/S; *if* I couldn't get the all-steel tires that I wanted when I needed to replace what I have now, I would definitely consider replacing them with the stock Michelins. I certainly try not to drive in either mud OR snow, sometimes there's no choice, and the tread pattern of the Michelin LTX M/S is a good, "all-purpose" one for a lot of road conditions. (The tread pattern on the stock Michelins also doesn't pick up as many little rocks as some tread patterns do.)

However, my coach is a 23.5', and it weighs about 11900 going down the road; a very high quality polyester sidewall belted "all conditions" tread tire would (and does so far) do the job. (But I plan to replace my current tires with all-steel ones anyway.) But if I were driving a 26.5' at close to GVWR (or a 30', which would likely be *over* GVWR) especially if I were fulltiming or doing a lot of traveling, all-steel tires would be my only choice. I don't care for the "highway rib" pattern of the Michelin XPS, so I would go with the Goodyear G647s if there were no other appropriately- sized/rated all-steel tires available at the time I was due for replacements.

When you do buy new "shoes", Terry, please post on what you decided on and how you like them.

Joan