Tow Vehicle Tires

[FSH 210 Sport]

So on Sunday we had torrential rains here… when driving home my truck drifted through a couple of corners on the oem Goodyear wranglers and that was the last straw…went to discount tires yesterday and got a set of LTX Defender tires. Omg’dah! What a difference, so much smoother and quieter.

The oem tires although they still had tread were down to the wear blocks. Once that happens the tires cannot pump water to the sides. What a crappy design they also had significant wear at 34,000 miles and the traction was crap. I can deal with fast wearing tires if they have great traction, or tires that don’t have that great of traction but wear like iron.

 

[HangOutdoors]

Yes the Defenders are awesome.

 

[SCP1]

Replaced my tires on my Suburban with Continental Terrain Contact HT XL same size you have. Honestly the tires ride much better when towing (they are not as sponge) and not too rough when not. Very happy and cheaper than the Defenders.

 

[HangOutdoors]

Replaced my tires on my Suburban with Continental Terrain Contact HT XL same size you have. Honestly the tire rides much better when towing and not too rough when not. Very happy and cheaper than the Defenders.

I looked at the Continental, they were $215 per tire. The Defenders were $228 per tire. Figured for $13 bucks may as well do the Michelin. The Admiral has the Terrain Contact on her Acadia

 

[Samjames99]

Falken at4 are pretty dialed in imo

 

[HangOutdoors]

Falken at4 are pretty dialed in imo

Nah, the Falken 4's are louder with worse fuel economy and 15,000 less than the Michelin Defender with warranty. The Falken's are ok, but not a great tow vehicle tire.

 

[Exciter 220]

I've used Michelins for over 50 years. Decided never again after I had an entire set start throwing dime-size chunks chunks of rubber. At first I thought I was picking up rocks and they were hitting the fender wells. Got home and saw missing pieces of tread on all four!

That said, I bought a used Yukon last year that came with Michelin Defenders and they seem to be very good. I've put about 40K miles on them in the last year.