Saw this while filling up with Costco has today
New Michelin Costco tire
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Saw this while filling up with Costco has today
I'm a sucker for the Michelin Man. Unfortunately Costco is essentially out of tires for my vehicle.
If they are anything like my Premiers, I will pass. Mine wore out in 17k, not impressed one bit.
Their tire and battery website sucks really bad.. just call them. They order them in takes about 4-5 days.
I like my premiers on my 2015 forester.
Now the defenders on the accent wore out in 23k miles.
I got over 70000 on those on my old 07 Accord...It was a great tire..
were they oem tires or aftermarket and what size?
Whaddaya got? Tires? Shoes? a Bread product?
If you can bring it out w/good quality, it 'makes a name' for itself, the tradition seems to be to let that quality go and sell on the name (at same hi $) till folks see thru the ploy (Y pay extra for not so good?). Some go for 'value' the whole way (good price for good product) and miss getting that name (Klenix, Xerox, etc got the name).
Another corporate strategy? have 1 good product (gets a name) and roll out 'different models' of lesser quality hopin folk/places like this dont communicate about the 'ploy'. U Go UG! (& 71Cheb)
If you can bring it out w/good quality, it 'makes a name' for itself, the tradition seems to be to let that quality go and sell on the name (at same hi $) till folks see thru the ploy (Y pay extra for not so good?). Some go for 'value' the whole way (good price for good product) and miss getting that name (Klenix, Xerox, etc got the name).
Another corporate strategy? have 1 good product (gets a name) and roll out 'different models' of lesser quality hopin folk/places like this dont communicate about the 'ploy'. U Go UG! (& 71Cheb)
Michelin got rid of 15” sizes for the new Defenders. It’s become an increasingly Chineseium market for those recently. The local Costco tire shop manager said they will order a BFG Advantage T/A or Bridgestone Ecopia/WeatherPeak for those but will refer people to the local Big O.
The Michelin Latitude Tours lasted us 80k and still had 3/32 on the tread when we traded the car in. I had them rotated and balanced every 5k at discount tire where I purchased them. They "loved" me. Those were the best tires I have ever purchased.
now named: Latitude tour HP.
Was going to make the comment in post #9 "Or they keep
changing names. One can never tell where the article has gone, or if
the new name is a different or same product." I cant find my 9.50 wide BFG
TA / KO as they only make a "KO2" and no longer in the narrow 9.50. It has been
renamed which is good cuz the tread blocks are much larger (a different tire, bearly).
Score one for BFG. But, I cant get one that will not scrape the wheel well now shame -
Was going to make the comment in post #9 "Or they keep
changing names. One can never tell where the article has gone, or if
the new name is a different or same product." I cant find my 9.50 wide BFG
TA / KO as they only make a "KO2" and no longer in the narrow 9.50. It has been
renamed which is good cuz the tread blocks are much larger (a different tire, bearly).
Score one for BFG. But, I cant get one that will not scrape the wheel well now shame -
My last set of michelins wore down to a unacceptable level in 27k i sold the car or i would have been going after milage warranty. I had been even taking it in to costco for rotation so it was all documented. I usually just do it at home so it would not have been documented.
They were from Costco 195/65/15, wore perfectly even down to the wear bars in 17k. Traction was pretty good though.
I got burned on the first gen Premier A/S from Costco on my Camry
Less than 30k (25k~) and they were down to the wear bars
Michelin nor Costco would help, so I swore off them
Which was sad, because the Primacy MXV4 was an excellent tire in every way
Hopefully they've improved since then
Sad, that the UTQG braking rating went down from A to B on the X-tour A/S 2 and Defender 2, since the Costco special has 235/55r20 tires where the Defender 2 does not.
I think I saw it on Tire Rack from their tests/video that they were disappointed with the Defender 2 I think for wet grip.
