Gonna need new steers soon

Been busy checking your eyelids for pinholes the last 10 years?

 

110psi all around

 

Did you read what she posted
"2006 studio sleeper freightliner columbia"
A studio sleeper is propriatary to kenworth as far as I know, but I might be mistaken thats why I asked

 

I called my tire guy Friday and michelin no longer makes the xza3+. It is now the michelin x line energy or something to that effect.

I went in and looked at them same tire different sidewall for the most part they apparently guarantee the tire for 20% more miles to take off and say it has 5 points less rolling resistance than the xza 3. I'm not sure guess I'll find out truck goes in Friday to have the tires put on. Total cost for the rubber with my discount was 546 tax in per tire for a 16 ply lp22.5 for the 11% extra they'd better be a better tire than the xza 3.

Forgot to add in there as well my discount is through the michelin advantage program, I have another discount as well through OOIDA my OOIDA price and my advantage price are pretty well the same on steer tires one may be a little more than the other, but nothing too serious. On drives and trailers the advantage program saves a small amount OOIDA's price will smoke the advantage though. My Xone's are out the door no discout about 1200/tire advantage they're about $950 OOIDA less than 900 I believe they're $850 tax in.

Both discounts require a credit card to be registered, both require a customer number for invoicing. I pay $45/year for OOIDA, and michelin is free from what I remember but you have to have 4 units for the michelin program if I recall correctly. Either way if you put a set of tires on both discounts equal a rather large chunk of change.

 

Dear God I saw someone actually recommended Dunlop's? Smh.

Maybe y'all have better luck with them, but the 8 different sets that have been on our company trucks and a few o/o trucks in the company, not a single set made it over 50-60k

We run michelin's.

 

I know 6 different guys who run dunlop all the way around on 7 axle hoppers all of them see between 80 and 120 out of a set...running 60 miles one way 60 miles back 7 miles of gravel each run.

All depends on how you treat the truck and who does alignments etc. I've put kumo steers on and haven't seen more than 30 from a set I've seen michelin that are shot in a short amount of time as well all depends on how the truck is maintained.

FWIW I have a set of dunlops on my other tractor so far in 10k I'm very happy with them. I do not see any signs of them needing to come off in fact they're wearing comparable to the BFG I'd has thrown on there a while back. For the cost difference I can put 2 sets of dunlop on for the cost of a set of michelins...330/tire as opposed to 650+ with no discount.

What's the difference between a michelin that runs 100k and a dunlop that runs 50k in that scenario? Nothing.

 

Maybe it's all luck of the draw, were the tires cast on a Monday or Friday thing.

All I know is we didn't have luck, my dad's truck for example got 50k on Dunlop's, now he's got mich tires that are over 100k. As far as I know he never got an alignment done after the Dunlop's.

Who knows.

On another note, anyone using centering pins? Saw a set and looking f for info on them.

 

It's tough to say could have been a bad set of tires as well I've had that happen a few times.

On the centering pens I've had them used and not used I have not yet noticed a difference the biggest thing is the centramatic balancers I've had put on. I don't know weather centramatic are better than balance masters or not they're the same basic concept but they do work.

My other truck has a set mine gets a set Friday with new steers, I noticed on the same stretch of highway my tires were much warmer to the touch than the steers on my other tractor.

Back to the michelin subject one thing those steers have over others is how forgiving they are. I've needed shocks and tie rod ends for a while not just haven't bit the bullet and done both. I've got roughly 120 on this set of steers right is 11/32 left is 5/32 but they're wearing even across the tire.

Some things work others don't. It's just the luck of the draw as you said I suppose. I think more or less it's having a good tire shop do tires...much the same as it is a good mechanic fix the truck.

 

Ive got them on steers only. 5 per wheel. Won't roll without em anymore. Really smooth on an old truck.

 

Is he talking about the little rings or whatever that you beat into the rim and the drum that center the wheel on the stud?

Or is he talking about the centering pins that they screw on the stud and are then removed after a few lugnuts are tightened down.

It seems as though I've never used what you are describing, but I have watched the tire shop screw the centering pins on the studs tighten the lugnuts down and then remove to supposedly center the wheel. I don't exactly understand how that works myself but they swear it does.