Drive tires - Are Michelins worth it?

It's that time again. Winter is coming and I need new tires.

I'm almost done wearing out my 2nd set of Continental HDL2 Eco, and I've been happy with these tires. I get close to 250k miles out of them. But these are the only tires I've ever ran as an owner op, other than some very disappointing Yokohamas.

Am I missing out by not going for Michelins? Are they significantly better? My main concerns are fuel efficiency - longevity - ride comfort, in that order.

Should I splurge for the extra $1600 a set? Or should I stick with my continentals?

 

Yeah, that's why I'm dubious. Continentals are already pretty decent brand tires, I'm not about to put Chinese double coin junk or, god forbid, Recaps on my drives - but the extra $200 a pop for the mixhelins is kind of a big ask. There would have to be pretty noticeable and immediate Improvement for me to not regret that purchase.

I do run michelins on my steers though, never cheap out on your steers.

 

I'm going through Landstar LCAPP discount program, and the Continentals are pretty much the same price as your recaps. LCAPP doesn't cover recaps anyways.

Even if they did, I would never put Recaps on my truck. I've seen what these things do when they blow out, yikes, no thanks.

 

Yokies only lasted me 100k, and they wore super unevenly. Like one side would be bald and the other side would have like 7/32. Bumpy bumpy times until I got rid of them.

Besides, if you are more than like 40k into a tire, you're better off just buying a decent random used tire with matching treadwear? Trying to put in a new tire of the same brand is just going to throw everything off at this point... make everything wear unevenly, mess up the alignment..

Unless you make them grind the tire down to match the others, and at this point you are just paying new tire money for a used tire anyways. And not all shops have that weird machine.