Maybe it's a michelin thing or maybe there are just two guy driving w126 like go karts! Had pretty bad experiene with michelin of the late anyone else getting the same prob?
I'm using something called a Michelin Harmony tire that the tire shop I went to last time put on there.... anybody know anything about them? i'm delighted for the moment, they handle great and I've put nearly 10k on them and they're still looking new. (Well except for the driveway dust
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Michael S.
86 300SDL *329,500 miles *
"I am a firm believer in psychology when it agrees with my own opinions."
I'm using something called a Michelin Harmony tire that the tire shop I went to last time put on there.... anybody know anything about them? i'm delighted for the moment, they handle great and I've put nearly 10k on them and they're still looking new. (Well except for the driveway dust
I had those on my 420sel at one time.. good tire. Pretty good life, but i found they get pretty loud as they get around 20k+ on em. The only real problem I have had with Michelin's, is many tires were not perfectly round and were not balancing right, finally had to use one of the Load force balancers to prove to discount tire that the tires were bad. I remember going through 5 tires at there shop to get a tire that was correctly weighted and not out of balance.. I have heard many stories like this from many people with Michelin's and other brands..
Honestly, people should look at Kumho 716 Solus tires (assuming you are stock sizes) I had always bought the "more expensive" brands because I always assumed they were better.. This is simply NOT the case... My last set of tires for the 420sel were Goodyear TrileTread tires... they were supposed to be the best tires going period, and at $130+ each they should have been.
I found that while they road extremely nice and have a 80k mile warranty they were just to damn loud on concrete.. A damn shame considering most the west coast is concrete. On a luxury car this is just not cool, After dropping almost 700 bucks on em I removed em after just 4k miles.. Bought a set of the Kumho's and all I can say is WOW..
Almost silent tire, 61bucks a tire and 40k warranty.. I now have em on both my 420sel, 300se, and a 03 Galant.. Ride is great, and just plain quite.. I love em
Amazing quality.. I have had all the others, yoko's, Goodyear's, and the overpriced Michelns. Honestly, I will never go back.
Just my 2 cents
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Last edited by billabongo : 09-08-2006 at 10:09 PM.
wow, i'm surprised michelins have a reputation for being hard to balance..... I bought five for my car when I did that, changed the spare too.... and out of those tires, three of the five read 0.00 on the balancer when they ran them, and the other two... I think one of them was only off by 0.25 and the other maybe 0.75, in terms of the little weight things they added to them... 3/5 of them were perfect without any correction at all, I thought that was pretty good.
I did remember that the might be out of round! I won't buy michelin got them free! I don't mind the michelin pilot sport SX only! I don't think the rest of the range is worth the money!
I think best tire is good year F1 or GSD3. I could you them all the way down without tearing them up.
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