I'd suggest the LTX is the worst tire that I've ever owned, by far. Only tire that I've taken off early, and sold on Craigslist, as I had zero confidence in them.
I'll just re-post what I noted in the other thread so that everyone is aware of the Michelin-bash history baggage that comes along with this statement:
Sweet Jesus, do you have a notification set for LTX so that this can be shared every time a thread comes up? This gets posted in EVERY LTX thread. Every. Single. Thread.
BTW, curious what changed between this post by you in 2008:
mrsilv04 said:
I have a set of LTX M/S on my 2004 Silverado. Pricey, but definitely worth it. I'd buy them again without reservation. However, I'd be extremely cautious about any tire with Firestone stamped on the sidewall. Millions of tires recalled over the past 30 years, and yet another recall just a few weeks back. Remember the Explorer fiasco? Firestones.
I'm looking at new tires for my 2005 F-150 2wd and I think I've settled on the LTX M/S in P265/70-17. Mostly highway service, I don't do heavy towing, and no snow or ice to be found around here. I've read reports of these tires lasting 70-100k miles on full sized trucks. I've read glowing...
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This post by you in 2010:
mrsilv04 said:
The last set of Uniroyal tires that I had to suffer with performed like they were filled with pudding. No sidewall whatsoever. Consider the Michelin LTX2.
Help me decide: For my wife's '08 Highlander...Michelin Cross Terrain $900 OTD or Uniroyal Laredo Cross Country $480 OTD. Both include lifetime balancing and rotation. I love Michelins and generally get screwed when I try to cheap out, but almost half-price for the Uniroyals is tempting. Anyone...
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This post by you in 2013:
mrsilv04 said:
4 Michelin LTX's. Date code of 3207. Been on truck since 4807. No problems here.
I was wondering if anyone knew anything about Michelin's dry rot problems? Did they clear the issue up? Anyone experience it? Thinking about getting a set of Michelins soon...
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To you in 2014 where the tires would have been seven years old:
mrsilv04 said:
Michelin LTX's completely went to heck as they aged (and actually contributed to an accident), but others will tell you that it is the best all-around tire on the planet, bar none. I don't know. My neighbor just dropped over a grand on a brand new set of LTX's, and he's not impressed at all with the traction, even when the tires are brand new. All I can say is that I'm not buying LTX's ever again, and I doubt that my neighbor will either.
I bought 4 used MotoMaster Total Terrain A/P truck tires for my Dakota and it has 9,320 miles on them.I know Cooper tire makes them and just thinking how many of you used them and how they wear and ride in the winter etc...the truck is a 4x4
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Which has now morphed into this:
mrsilv04 said:
I read a bunch of tire reviews here on BITOG, as to how wonderful the Michelin LTX tire was.... month after month, year after year. After shelling out over $800 for a set... actual tire owner A found out they were, by far, the worst tire that I have ever owned. The only time in my life, that I've ever pulled off a set of tires at half tread, and sold them on Craigslist, because I couldn't take the overwhelming lack of wet/snow traction any longer. There's a difference right there. And then we have Random Commenter 722 (above) who comments about a tire because of "general consensus"... and apparently not because he's actually owned a set. By the way 722, I actually have a set of those "trashy" OE Goodyear tires on my truck, right now. There's a huge difference right there.
It's apparently been what, seven years since owning them, and you are now even more jaded than you were in 2014? Despite giving them glowing reviews from their 2007 install date through 2013.
In comparison, between my father and myself we've owned at least 5 sets of LTX's now ranging from the original LTX to the M/S2. LTX's will be what get put on my wife's truck when the OE Goodyear hockey pucks are done. Unlike your situation, our opinion didn't dramatically do a 180 after 7 years of ownership
Addendum:
If the tires were installed in 2007 and by 2014, which is when I assume you took them off, 7 years had passed and they were only half worn and you were happy with them for 6 of those 7 years, do you not think it possible that the tires simply degraded due to a lack of use over such a substantial duration? Seems far more likely than them simply being garbage when your own words prior to whatever transpired in 2014 clearly don't support that being the case.
I suspect that sometime around 2014 you got in an accident and decided to blame the 6-7 year old tires and now you bash them whenever the opportunity presents. Over time you've become more and more invested in that narrative, which is why your slagging and criticism, despite not owning a set since, has evolved along the way, become more and more harsh as time goes on.