FREDO wrote:

My personal choice is Michelin. I have the LT265/75R16C LTX M/S on my GMC
Z71 I currently have 93,000 miles on them and they still have most of the
original tread depth left (11/32 according to my Discount Tires guy). They
also get great traction on ice and snow. (I commute 47 miles each way every
weekday year round to northern Indiana (and have for 16 years).

I have owned Goodyear Wranglers, Firestone Wilderness, General Grabber, and
BF Goodrich All Terrain tires in the past and these Michelins are by far the
best tire I have ever owned on an SUV or 4X4 Pickup.

Ditto on the LTX M+S experience here. Greatly improved my Explorer's
ride, handling and traction (dry, wet, mud, snow, you name it) over the
"interleaved pork chop" tread of the stock Wilderness ATs (boom!).
Roadnoise was reduced to car-like levels. First time out with them, I
felt like I should have driven directly from Ford to Michelin when the
vehicle was new, to just toss the ATs in the trash and get the LTXs at
my own expense, that's how much I thought of the overall improvement. I
put 60,000 miles on them then traded the vehicle, tires STILL looked
new.

Of course as others have mentioned, there's more to a tire than
treadwear. There are tradeoffs but somehow Michelin achieves good
traction and long treadwear with several of its tires, but at mucho
$$$. You can get what you pay for and you can be happy with them for
many miles. You might also get just as good a ride with tires with
shorter wear rating, maybe for less $$ and just have to replace them
sooner. That's what I opted for on my latest tire purchase (for a car),
not because of money savings but because I liked the particular tire
and the idea that there might be something even better available when
it's time to replace. I like replacing the rubber every few years
whether there's plenty of tread left or not... it's about the integrity
of the rubber. So I looked at how many miles I was going to put on the
car in that time and decided I didn't need to pay for tread I wasn't
going to use, but I WAS willing to pay for better tread I WOULD use.
OK, so maybe this is kind of a jumble of opinion but you might take
something from it.

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