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Chickie

Chickie

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I need tyres I know this has been asked before but which do you recommend? I always buy camping car tyres and have had Michelin and continental not impressed with either. Hoping for some help. Cheers
 
Are you going abroad into deep snow ,ice mud? Then we can help
 
Michelin are now a really crap tyre. They are selling on there name but the product has deteriorated massively over the last few years. Now on Hankook and run much quieter and cooler. Hopefully they won't delaminate after 3 years as my Michelin camper brand did.
 
Instead of going for Camper tyres, which in my opinion are usually very poor value for money, look for 10 ply tyres over the standard 8. Of they have them in your size .

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Hi everyone looking for advice on tyres for my motorhome michelin crossclimate or michelin camper and feed back would be appreciated
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I recently had Falken Euroall Season Van11 tyres fitted. I wanted something that would have a bit more grip in wet grass and mud, but didn't want to go for full-on winter tyres. Having just done a trip to Spain and back, I'm quite happy with them, but fortunately didn't get much opportunity to test the mud+snow performance.
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autorouter said:
I recently had Falken Euroall Season Van11 tyres fitted. I wanted something that would have a bit more grip in wet grass and mud, but didn't want to go for full-on winter tyres. Having just done a trip to Spain and back, I'm quite happy with them, but fortunately didn't get much opportunity to test the mud+snow performance.
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I looked at them but they didn't do a high enough load rating.
 
Whilst I can't comment on the crapness of the michelin camper tyres, the michelin Cross climate van tyres we have are really good for day to day plus have the three peaks snow rating 👍
 
Jake vE said:
Whilst I can't comment on the crapness of the michelin camper tyres, the michelin Cross climate van tyres we have are really good for day to day plus have the three peaks snow rating 👍
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Several Funsters have have walls cracking on the cross climate after only a year or two.

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Lenny HB said:
Several Funsters have have walls cracking on the cross climate after only a year or two.
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I have read some comments about that but a company I work with have used them on all of their trucks with no issues. Some friends have had them on their hymer for a couple of years now with no problems. Hopefully I won't become another cracking statistic! 🙂
 
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You can see cracks on these I had to replace, good tread on all four, 5 years old.
 
Jake vE said:
Whilst I can't comment on the crapness of the michelin camper tyres, the michelin Cross climate van tyres we have are really good for day to day plus have the three peaks snow rating 👍
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Weve been very pleased with our Michelin Cross Climates too. I hope Lenny HB’s delamination issue doesnt plague us, but for now, we’ve got some wonderful tyres.
 
I’m on my second season on maxxis van smart winter tyres. Great on snow and frost conditions. In the summer I use te conti’s summer tyre.
 
I got fed up of being ripped off with "camper" tyres and just dropped down to commercial tyres. Haven't regretted it in over 12 years of using them.

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The cross climates are standard now on all our fleet of Ambulances. I can’t recall any cracking issues at the moment but then we tend to wear them out pretty quick.
 
Fitted this year a pair of Bridgestone R660, hope they are going to be as good as previous Bridgestones.
 
Ok, food for thought, I thought the tyres had to be CP and I do agree they are a rip off as anything to do with campingcar is ( at least here in France). I don't really go anywhere to warrant winter tyres. I do go to Spain in winter but never had cause to fit winter tyres. My van is 3.5 tonne, so surely it's a commercial vehicle so what's the difference.
 
Running on Michelin at moment .
Soon as they are u. s. I will change to goodrich all terrain.

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Those goodridge all terain have a hefty penalty in fuel consumption. I know mate at work has them on two vans for ground work. At least 10mpg have disappeared.
 
Chickie said:
Ok, food for thought, I thought the tyres had to be CP and I do agree they are a rip off as anything to do with campingcar is ( at least here in France). I don't really go anywhere to warrant winter tyres. I do go to Spain in winter but never had cause to fit winter tyres. My van is 3.5 tonne, so surely it's a commercial vehicle so what's the difference.
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Many MH's sit idle for long periods even when on holiday so CP tyres are (according to the blurb) designed for that and have stronger side walls and hence they recommend higher pressures. Commercial white vans are travelling all day maybe everyday so will just wear out tyres unlike MH ones which generally do not get worn out due to low mileage they just degrade from sitting about. I know some on here will say they do loads of miles and wear tyres out but the vast majority do not, even 10k miles a year is low mileage compared to a commercial delivery van.
 
raysalaugh said:
View attachment 439637YView attachment 439640You can see cracks on these I had to replace, good tread on all four, 5 years old.
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This is exactly the same problem I encountered. I contacted Michelin and the usual reply came back as to tyre pressure, overweight etc. In other words it was my fault. A customer of mine who looks after a fleet of over 70 parcel vans isn't allowed to fit Michelin tyres to any of these vehicles. The company have over 2000 in the uk and have had big problems with all Michelin tyres and refuse to use them.

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Another vote for Cross Climates.
 
I wouldn’t dream of going back to so called camper tyres now, having had these on for the past couple of years. All this rubbish about stronger side walls to cope with being stood, it’s the 80 psi pressure they tell you to keep them at that does that. Ours are much more comfortable at the lower pressures we can run them at. (Recommended by Continental) The rubber on Michelin Campers appears very inflexible and I think that’s why they crack, especially when people experiment with lower pressures on them, they appear designed to be run rock hard and nothing else, plus they have little grip.
 
Raul said:
Those goodridge all terain have a hefty penalty in fuel consumption. I know mate at work has them on two vans for ground work. At least 10mpg have disappeared.
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I haven't had any negitive points with then from the people we have spoken to who run on them .
Only good news ..
 
Thinking of using Hankook when current continental vanco’s are done, which will be soon. ( depending on CV19 )
Got them on the Golf.
Mitch

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