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Jiles

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Over the last several years, I have bought several Cars/Trucks, for personal use.
Some had Michelin Tires.
I just bought an Infiniti FX35 and the salesman pointed out that it had the original Michelin factory installed tires.
From my previous experience with Michelin tires, I told the salesman that I disliked Michelin tires because I never had a set that didn't leak air!
We checked the tire pressure and sure enough TWO were 3 pounds low on air.
I bought the Infiniti and I have to add air to these two tires about every two weeks.
Like I told the salesman, I have had many different brands of tires that didn't leak but never had a set of Michelins that didn't leak.
Anyone else have this problem.
 
Bought a 1 ton single wheel four door cab, eight foot box Dodge in 2004 with Michelin tires. Got 106,000 miles out of the tires, and yes it has the same brand on it now. No trouble at all with the first set.
 
I've only had one set that I remember and they were on a 2005 Dodge 1500 4x4. I didn't have any problems other than they were completely worn out at 28K miles. I just figured they were cheapies to get it off the assembly line. The best pickup tires I've had were Coopers.
 
I am not referring to the high mileage achieved, I am talking about loosing air pressure.
 
I like Michelin's on my sports cars good handling and ride. Don't have problems losing air but don't get that many miles out of them.
 
I had Michelins years ago and was not satisfied with them. Costco kept on selling them and I was told that the ones that they were selling later were made to Costco specs.

I put on a set of Costco Michelins rated for 80,000 miles. I had 76,000 on them when I replaced them at Costco for a new set; they would have made 80K easy, but didn't want to push my luck driving the freeways around here. Now I only drive that vehicle about 4,000 miles in a year so this set should last a long time.
 
Might be the rims and not the tires. A lot of the aluminum rims do not hold air real good without a bead sealer applied.
 
I atribute leaking air to aluminum rims more so then tires theirselves.

I had a set of michelins came on a 1996 dodge truck (steel rims) and never wore them out and they held air fine. I pulled them off the truck because of no traction but they still had about the minimum tread depth left and worn evenly. Ever other brand I put on after those worn funny and quick.
I never have stepped up money wise and bought more michelins.
 
From my experience, a high mileage rated tire is made of "harder" rubber and will not grip as well as a regular tire.
I have took off perfectly good ----high mileage rated tires, because of poor traction.
For me, traction is more important then attaining high mileage.
 
I have worked at a Michelin tire plant for over 25 years. Have
built Michelin , uniroyal and BF Goodrich tires all at the plant
during that time. The Michelin brand tires have a tighter spec
and different material content than the other brands. Hope you
are not loosing air on any I built.
 
Worst tires I've ever owned.
Took a brand new truck back to the dealer 6 times
before they could get the vibration out of them.
At 3 months (under 2K miles) one of them blew out.
Warranty was not worth the paper it was written on.
 
I worked in a tire shop for several years that sold Michelin tires, the field rep for Michelin flat out stated many times that Michelin did not make a bad tire while he was looking at several that had broken belts.
 
I've had Michelins on steel wheels on multiple cars and trucks that wouldn't lose air for years.
EVERY car I've had with alloy wheels I've had problems with losing air pressure...no matter what brand the tires were.
 
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