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Michelin Super Singles

Discussion in 'Trucks [ Eighteen Wheelers ]' started by IrreverentCrawfish, Aug 3, 2018.

  1. Aug 3, 2018 #1
    IrreverentCrawfish

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    I'm a lease op at Prime, and Prime has made a real effort in recent years to push Michelin super single tires for drives and trailers. Nearly all Prime trucks have super single drives, and I leased mine used so it came with those same michelin super singles. When the michelins hit about 6/32 tread, they basically self destructed and slowly started losing chunks of tread over the course of a month or two before they became illegal and had to be replaced. I bought Yokohamas as the replacement, and have been very pleased with the new ones. Has anyone else (Prime or not) noticed this issue with michelin super singles?
     
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  3. Aug 3, 2018 #2
    x1Heavy

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    I don't use them ever. Duals or nothing as far as I am concerned.
     
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  4. Aug 3, 2018 #3
    homeskillet

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    I am a company driver, and many of our tank trailers have Michelin super singles, and I have noticed a sort of patchwork, "squares missing" pattern on some of the tires, usually around the time the tread is low enough to get your attention during the pretrip

    Haven't seen similar wear on the drives, though, and we use a different tread profile on them. So our trailer tires aren't "old drives".
     
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  5. Aug 3, 2018 #4
    bzinger

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    My Michelin energy's in dual set up on my drives have done the same thing as they got down around 6/32s .
    Putting 8 new yokos on tmw .
     
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  7. Aug 3, 2018 #5
    Dave_in_AZ

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    What about Bridgestone? My Yoko's are doing OK going past the 120K mark, but I'm still on the fence to see if they go past 200.

    And be advised, you gotta rotate them a lot. The kid that PM's mine does them every other service ( 40K ), for an extra $40. It's $20 a tire at a truck stop.
     
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