Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 05:38:18 -0700
Reply-To: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Was: Westlake Tires Now Michelin LT MS
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Don't know about the tires you mention in your perfect subject line (grin)
but
In my experience, Michelin LTX MS's did what your's are doing...Namely,
they cracked on the sidewalls while they still some decent tread depth.
Overall, the performance and durabiltity of that set of tires was not to my
liking, I won't be buying any more Michelins for my van...
84 low top westie interior 14" 2wd plenty of backroad and rough road
travel.
"Your experiences with Michelin May Vary"
Michelin Tires...They are supposed to be Premium tires. Priced that way
anyhow. They've lost their grip...(sorry)...on producing tires to match
their reputation, IMHO.
A few years back, didn't they have a fiasco with F-1 tires?
I bought some of their racing slick tires a while ago, for a 'special'
race where I really wanted to beat one of my braggart friends..and besides
being quite expensive, the Michelins became Hockey Puck-like after two
sessions of 20minutes on the track...virtually un-usable. Big waste of
cash, mainly based on their "good tires" reputation.
The LTX I had on my van..they were really scary on a grated bridge deck I
often must negotiate. This is a narrow long toll bridge (Hood River, Or.
across the Columbia river) with lots of wide vehicles on it. My van,
running on the Michelins, would dart around on that road deck very
unpredictably...so much so that I began going an extra 20 miles out of my
way, to use the next closest bridge without the steel decking while I had
those nasty tires on my rig. Other tires do not behave like those.
And, I got stuck on almost flat wet grass in my parking area with those
tires....a couple of times. Ugg!
Don Hanson
On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 11:18 PM, Kim Springer <kimspringer@astound.net>wrote:
> Hello All,
>
>
>
> Note that I used a subject line related to the subject not "Hate to start a
> tire thread". That way, someone searching the archives with the same
> question I have, might have a change to save posting a repeat question". I
> did not find anything in the archives about Westlake tires. But it might be
> buried in a useless subject line.
>
>
>
> This is a foreign brand but seems to have the specs for our Vanagons. Any
> experience with these out there?
>
>
>
> So far I have found that there was a thread on Samba that was relatively OK
> with the tires but short on miles to give it credence.
>
>
>
> I know there was a tire recall on this brand some years back, but not the
> H110 model I have been reading about.
>
>
>
> H110 205 R14C 109/107Q 8PR. I wonder if this is a trailer tire? But not by
> what I have read.
>
>
>
> My 195/14 Michelin LTX MS 97 C Rated are failing, all four, cracking on the
> sidewalls, only about 30K miles on them.
>
>
>
> Kim
>
> '88 Tristar #7
>
| 
