bdosborn wrote:A trip to Discount and now I have a set of Michelin Agilis CrossClimate.
I've never seen tire damage like that, I must of ran over something that cut the tread up? The front tire on the same side was fine. The old tire is a Hancook, I got 50K miles out of them. That's the most I've ever got from tires on the Dodge...
Bruce
Those Agilis look a lot like the Michelin AT2. I wonder how much difference there is in the compounds...
Were those Hankooks the Dynapro AT?
My brother ran that tire on one of his Durangos. They were extremely prone to large punctures from (small) rocks on the road, as well as throwing tread blocks (probably related to the first issue). Off-road, they were much better. But on the road, they really couldn't handle point loads.
At first, he thought the tires (which came on the vehicle) may have just been in poor condition from being run at low pressure, or perhaps they had aged poorly. He replaced the full set with the same type of tire. But kept having the same issues. Since they were all basically brand new, as well as under warranty, he got new replacements each time the puncture wasn't repairable, or a tread block decided to depart.
Over about a three and a half year period, that Durango went through 11 tires.
I even watched one of them happen. A little, pointy, but not sharp, rock the shape of a strawberry and about 1" tall, in the street in front of my brother's house. As soon as the front left tire went over that rock, we heard a little pop and a very distinct rapid air loss. It was ridiculous. It was not a rock that anyone would suspect would give a tire trouble, regardless of tire type or vehicle.
My sister-in-law was driving at the time. I think everyone within 20 miles could hear her exclamation of anger, beginning with some profanity and ending with, "Are you serious!? Again!?"
Pretty good article. I don't agree with everything, but the rubber band analogy is a good one.
I was going to say that the worst thing you can do for a tire is park it. Tires need exercise. They need to flex. They need to be used. As soon as they get parked, the deterioration accelerates.
philpom wrote:
Buy a couple of 12" pavers to get the tires off the ground. It will help a ton.
Ground or paver wouldn't have made a difference here. It was highway damage that, somehow, went unnoticed until this winter.
I know it's not obvious in the photo, but it's very obvious in person that the tire ran for quite a few miles once the chunk came off.
I just don't understand how I missed it, unless that spot ended up on the bottom every time it was parked.