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Old 11-10-2016, 01:34 PM   #1
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Less Expensive Tires

Anyone have experience with less expensive tires. A tire like toyo or hankook, versus goodyear or michelins.
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Old 11-10-2016, 01:50 PM   #2
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A Toyo is a premium tire in the same quality and price range as a Michelin, Bridgestone, Goodyear.... etc... Toyo has made excellent movement and progress into the HD truck market.... Hankook is now standard on some cars... which leads me to believe that the quality has come up over the past few years...
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Old 11-10-2016, 01:56 PM   #3
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Have had Hankooks for almost 3 years. No problems or sidewall cracking. Ride and handling are fine.
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Old 11-10-2016, 03:04 PM   #4
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My Experience with less expensive tires

Here is my experience with less expensive tires. I have had Hankook, Bridgestone, Carlyle, and Samson. Both ST tires for Travel trailers, and 5th wheels. RV tires for Motor Homes. I never had a problem or blow out with the less expensive tires. The only Problems I've had with tires were all american made both ST for trailers (Goodyear), and RV tires for motor homes (Goodyear and Michelin). My Samson tires have given me good service at 1/3 the cost of Michelin or Goodyear.
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Old 11-10-2016, 03:33 PM   #5
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Have had Hankooks for almost 3 years. No problems or sidewall cracking. Ride and handling are fine.
X2 but 4 years.
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Old 11-10-2016, 05:42 PM   #6
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An old friend that worked at a different RV dealership then I did said that a few of his customers went to Sumitomo tires and were happy with the price and performance. He put a set on his Adventure and had the same results. I went for 6 on my Journey and really like the results! Oh ya and the price. They look great and run smooth and quiet. 4 Years now and a trip to California and who knows how many trips to Florida and still no complaints.
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Old 11-10-2016, 06:26 PM   #7
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Old 11-10-2016, 07:05 PM   #8
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We had General- Continental tires on last coach & felt no difference from original tires that came with coach from factory. Very smooth & quiet.
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Old 11-10-2016, 08:03 PM   #10
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I really don't see the need to spend the extra dollars to put Michelin or Goodyear on my coach when they will only have 20, 000 or so miles on them when I need to replace them.
I run Michelin on my cars and use them till they are worn out so it makes them more viable but then again I could probably get the same mileage from another brand for less money.

Many other brands are just as good or maybe better for less money.
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Old 11-10-2016, 08:15 PM   #11
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I have about 30,000 miles on my 4+ years old Toyo's. Purchased from Les Schwab August 2012. Very happy with price and performance.
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Yokohamas on the front, Generals on the back. Saved $1600 over Michelins on the FMHC deal. 20,000+ miles and 2 years later, no problems with ride or anything else.
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No experience with Toyo, but the Bounder is running Double Coin tires from Les Schwab, which is their economy alternative. They seem to perform as good as anything I have had. For the real economy minded, you can do what I did. Took all the wheels off and drove to the tire store and had them mounted. Schwab discounted my tires $100 which worked out to $110 savings when you calculate the saved sales tax. I like to do maintenance at tire change time anyway and prefer to mount my own wheels, to avoid improper procedure. Improper mounting leads to rotor thickness variation pulsation, which most describe as warp.
I recently changed the original rotors on the Bounder after 200k miles. They had slight thickness variation but were too thin to turn, only .010 over minimum. I drive in the mountains a lot.
Yeah, Double Coin tires are okay. Have Toyo on the pickup and they perform well also.

P.S. An article of interest about wheel mounting.

http://www.hendonpub.com/resources/a...etails?id=1787
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Toyo AT's on Dodge 2500 second set and I have Toyo on my Dodge 1500 the only problem I had was a set of HT's due to a recall. Hercules on trailer probably 10K miles and no problems.
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