Over 100,000mi on one set of tires!

[bear4]

I wanted to share my great experience with Michelin Harmony tires I have on my 01 Echo for 101,000 miles now! Look at pictures - the tires are still good! Has anybody else exprience the same with Michelin? Although I am looking for a new set soon, I believe it is time now...

[schleppy]

Wow, that's incredible. Those things must be hard as a rock! What rotation strategy (if any) did you use? Typical driving?

You should write Michelin and tell them. Maybe they'll send you some free crap?

[yaris-me]

The wear indicators are not showing. You don't need to get new tires, yet. What do you do, drive at 30 MPH in a straight line?:confused::iono:

[advocate]

Wow, that's incredible. Those things must be hard as a rock! What rotation strategy (if any) did you use? Typical driving?

You should write Michelin and tell them. Maybe they'll send you some free crap?

This might be a good idea. Could potentially get an advertising campaign going for them or something haha.

[nemelek]

I once had a set of Kirkland AT (made by michelin) for a Toyota 4X4. The tires had 70k when I sold the truck and probably good for another 20k. Great summer tires, however in rain, ice, snow they were real slick. Winter driving took extra care.

[R2D2]

Congratulations! That is quite a feat! I'd be very interested in your tire maintanence habits if you cared to elaborate.

I had a set of Firestone Steeltex AT's on a 98 Chevy K1500 that have 140k mi on them. My dad now owns the truck and they are still on there! They were the factory tires when I took delivery of the truck on April 11, 1998. Most people don't keep vehicles that long let alone tires, lol. I checked air pressures every week and religiously rotated them every 6k. The amazing part is the truck weighed 6k lbs all the time.

Definitely write michelin and send them pics. I still have my 100k pics that I was going to send to Firestone but never did. What have you got to lose? They are good tires but you obviously deserve som credit also!

R2

[posaunemeister]

This might be a good idea. Could potentially get an advertising campaign going for them or something haha.

Like, like Jared for Subway sandwiches. :laugh:

[severous01]

ya...i was gonna say that's not the OEM crappy bridgestones that came from the newer yaris. i have 21k and i'm widdled down to near nothing. with a 160 treadwear rating you'd think they were slicks or something

any way, i love michellin. too bad for me though that i can never afford 4 at one time so i settle for fuzion, firestone or bridgestones. mostly summer performance only since i live near the sun belt.

[bear4]

Congratulations! That is quite a feat! I'd be very interested in your tire maintanence habits if you cared to elaborate.

I had a set of Firestone Steeltex AT's on a 98 Chevy K1500 that have 140k mi on them. My dad now owns the truck and they are still on there! They were the factory tires when I took delivery of the truck on April 11, 1998. Most people don't keep vehicles that long let alone tires, lol. I checked air pressures every week and religiously rotated them every 6k. The amazing part is the truck weighed 6k lbs all the time.

Definitely write michelin and send them pics. I still have my 100k pics that I was going to send to Firestone but never did. What have you got to lose? They are good tires but you obviously deserve som credit also!

R2


I don't really do anything special to them, rotate every 5-8k miles and check pressure maybe once a month, that's it. I drive mostly highway at high speeds, rarely stop and go and my echo is a manual. I am thinking about replacing them though as I believe at this point the rubber has hardned and I have bad traction, especially on wet roads.

[bear4]

ya...i was gonna say that's not the OEM crappy bridgestones that came from the newer yaris. i have 21k and i'm widdled down to near nothing. with a 160 treadwear rating you'd think they were slicks or something

any way, i love michellin. too bad for me though that i can never afford 4 at one time so i settle for fuzion, firestone or bridgestones. mostly summer performance only since i live near the sun belt.

Echo did no come with Michelin either. I bought it when it had 60k miles and now I got 152,000 miles on it. I know the previous owner, they put a lot of good extras into this car like cruise control, Alpine hi-end stereo and a set of Michelins as 50k. I plan to keep this car for a while :)

[bear4]

The wear indicators are not showing. You don't need to get new tires, yet. What do you do, drive at 30 MPH in a straight line?:confused::iono:

No, mostly straight highways...

[RedRide]

That's great to hear.
I plan on getting a set of harmonys ih the spring. :smile:

[SilverBack]

Almost tempting to ditch the Falkens I've been looking at. My Potenza's are now borderline racing slicks after only 30K miles :rolleyes:

I'll keep the Harmony's in mind :thumbsup:

[auxmike]

My Yaris came with Eagle LS rubber. I think they came with the power pkg. upgrade.
Sometimes buying "bare bones" does'nt really save you much in the long run...

[SilverBack]

That's funny. I've got the power package with OEM alloys, but still got stuck with the Bridgestones. Must be a USDM regional thing

[auxmike]

I think the treadwear rating on my Eagles is like 360...
Nice tires, but I want Michelins next set!

[talnlnky]

ya...i was gonna say that's not the OEM crappy bridgestones that came from the newer yaris. i have 21k and i'm widdled down to near nothing. with a 160 treadwear rating you'd think they were slicks or something

any way, i love michellin. too bad for me though that i can never afford 4 at one time so i settle for fuzion, firestone or bridgestones. mostly summer performance only since i live near the sun belt.
you should've gotten more from the potenza's... I'm at 38k miles and still have 5/32nds on the front and 4/32nds on the rears for tread.

It's not looking like i'll be going home (E. Washington) until spring, so I shouldn't have to worry about driving in snow... therefore I might not have to replace these until summer 2010. By that time I should have around 50k on the yaris.

[TLyttle]

My OEM tires (Potenzas) only went 20,000 miles as well, but I wrote that off to a LOT of stop and go driving. I still don't understand why I didn't get Michelins as replacements; Old Timers Disease, I guess...

My old Morris got 90,000 miles off a set of Michelins, and I did NOT baby them at all! Had I driven the car like a normal person, I don't know how long the tires would have lasted.

[RedRide]

The OEM Bridgstones are actually better tires than the Goodyear LS.

[b_hickman11]

That's funny. I've got the power package with OEM alloys, but still got stuck with the Bridgestones. Must be a USDM regional thing

Aren't the OEM alloys the same size as the OEM steels?

[b_hickman11]

The OEM Bridgstones are actually better tires than the Goodyear LS.

So the Goodyears only get about 15,000 miles?

[1stToyota]

My Yaris came with Eagle LS rubber. I think they came with the power pkg. upgrade.
Sometimes buying "bare bones" does'nt really save you much in the long run...

I don't have the power package, but I did get the 15" aluminum wheel [10 spoke] upgrade and got the Eagle LS; wearing good so far.

[firemachine69]

I have the Bridgestone 14" stockers. Man do they ever SUCK. I'm about half-way down, and it sounds like marbles rolling around! :thumbdown:

As it stands, the one Bridgestone shop in town is willing to pro-rate them... But I'd be stuck with another set of Bridgestones, and the pro-rating would just bring their inflated prices down to reasonable retail price.