I don't know ....about my approval ....of your ..tires but my tires....got my ...approval resulting in purchase...but there is no RV name on them. https://www.michelinman.com/auto/tires/michelin-agilis-crossclimate
I don't know ....about my approval ....of your ..tires but my tires....got my ...approval resulting in purchase...but there is no RV name on them. https://www.michelinman.com/auto/tires/michelin-agilis-crossclimate
Bud-ClassB
Senior Member
avanti, this is the same old same old stuff (same person), nothing new - 'claims'. Then with links that are simply the same, 'claims'. But he is right as you know, you're not right because of you are a moderator. 'Credentials of Any Kind' does not make anyone right, period. Only the evidence from someone using the 'scientific method'.
Bud
I own a tire and auto repair store and just because the tires show cracking does NOT mean that they are junk. Some tires and some climates are more prone to weathering. Michelin is the best company to deal with and they recognize the weathering issue and stand behind their tires. We have a lot of heat and humidity in on the Maryland coast...and even get some pretty cold temps...so we know weathering. But NO or LIMITED use are the worst conditions for tires.
Compounds are blended into the tires that need heat and flexing to release them. I would guess the VW is moving more than the RV releasing the compounds that help preserve the tire. Very simple. I never move my RV with low pressure in the tires. Low pressure is 20% less than the recommended pressure for the tire and I make try to get them in the road at least once a month. Worse things you can do is run a tire with low pressure, not even one foot or let a tire sit, inside, covered does not matter. RV Tire Safety
Old thread revival there...
In my anecdotal experience, sun exposure is the largest contributor to tire sidewall degradation.
When I was a kid, Dad had a '40 Buick that sat parked on the street most of its life because we didn't have enough driveway space, and it didn't get driven much because cloth-covered wire tended to fail and discharge the battery and wreak havoc on the electrical system. The outside sidewalls always looked terrible on it, the inside sidewalls didn't.
On my Jayco single axle travel trailer, the tires manufactured late 2018 had the start of cracking in the sidewalls on the outside by 2024, perfectly good sidewalls on the inside where they were mostly covered by the trailer.
On my new-to-me 20 year old Roadtrek, the original factory spare tire had horrific sidewall cracking where it was exposed to the elements in that gap between the cover and the rear door of the van, but the rest of the tire looked fine.
On my 1995 Impala SS, when I bought it with around 6,000 miles on the odometer in 2013, the original seventeen year old tires had moderate cracking in the sidewalls, more on the outside than the inside, and the car had been garage-kept its whole life. The spare tire that had never been mounted on the car and lived its entire life in the trunk had no cracking whatsoever. The car is up to around 43,000 miles now, still garage kept, and while I have relegated that factory spare tire to the shelf (put another matching Impala SS wheel as a spare) that original spare still has no cracking on it despite being now 31 years old.
Covering the tires while parked is the cheapest effective solution. I would expect that if one feels motivated to put a vehicle up on jackstands, that lowering the tire pressure while up in the air could also be beneficial, but this would be a lot more effort, time spent mothballing and restoring to roadworthiness, and risk depending on the weight and size of the vehicle.
In my anecdotal experience, sun exposure is the largest contributor to tire sidewall degradation.
When I was a kid, Dad had a '40 Buick that sat parked on the street most of its life because we didn't have enough driveway space, and it didn't get driven much because cloth-covered wire tended to fail and discharge the battery and wreak havoc on the electrical system. The outside sidewalls always looked terrible on it, the inside sidewalls didn't.
On my Jayco single axle travel trailer, the tires manufactured late 2018 had the start of cracking in the sidewalls on the outside by 2024, perfectly good sidewalls on the inside where they were mostly covered by the trailer.
On my new-to-me 20 year old Roadtrek, the original factory spare tire had horrific sidewall cracking where it was exposed to the elements in that gap between the cover and the rear door of the van, but the rest of the tire looked fine.
On my 1995 Impala SS, when I bought it with around 6,000 miles on the odometer in 2013, the original seventeen year old tires had moderate cracking in the sidewalls, more on the outside than the inside, and the car had been garage-kept its whole life. The spare tire that had never been mounted on the car and lived its entire life in the trunk had no cracking whatsoever. The car is up to around 43,000 miles now, still garage kept, and while I have relegated that factory spare tire to the shelf (put another matching Impala SS wheel as a spare) that original spare still has no cracking on it despite being now 31 years old.
Covering the tires while parked is the cheapest effective solution. I would expect that if one feels motivated to put a vehicle up on jackstands, that lowering the tire pressure while up in the air could also be beneficial, but this would be a lot more effort, time spent mothballing and restoring to roadworthiness, and risk depending on the weight and size of the vehicle.
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