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Learjet wrote:Cummins12V98 wrote:Learjet wrote:38,000 miles on my Michelin LTX MS2 tires and they have been great and are wearing great!
I assume you had your front aligned to nearly ZERO toe???
No alignment changes...still set from factory.
I have seen your post about that...but I never had an issue with wear on the front tires. I do rotate the front tires only side to side every 10,000 miles. All good so far ![[emoticon]](https://forums.motorhome.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/smile.gif "smile")
VERY interesting!!! Are you the original owner?
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cummins2014
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Cummins12V98 wrote:Learjet wrote:Cummins12V98 wrote:Learjet wrote:38,000 miles on my Michelin LTX MS2 tires and they have been great and are wearing great!
I assume you had your front aligned to nearly ZERO toe???
No alignment changes...still set from factory.
I have seen your post about that...but I never had an issue with wear on the front tires. I do rotate the front tires only side to side every 10,000 miles. All good so far
VERY interesting!!! Are you the original owner?
I had my truck set to the Thuren specs after the drag link recall replacement from whatever it was to near O toe. I too have never had any unusual tire wear prior to this alignment , hope that doesn't change ,setting to these Thuren specs . This is my third set of tires .
Not sure how much water this holds ,this near 0 toe . Been hearing this since I've owned the truck . We will see . I see no difference in handling , road wander etc . This is the first alignment my truck has had since new , 9 years . Not sure why, mostly because I had the drag link replaced .
To add my son is on his third Ram since 2008 , and its used daily for work ,lot of miles ,and he's never had one of his trucks aligned ,and again no unusual tire wear . Beginning to wonder about this 0 toe thing . Kinda funny that the manufacturer of these trucks don't set the toe to nearly 0 ,makes you wonder .
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Jack in Dixie
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PROBEM SOLVED: As a few members posted, an LT245/75R17E size tire will fit the 2021 RAM 3500 1-Ton dually. Was also able to find the tires I wanted all along in that size tire... the Michelin Defender LTX M/S and/or a Michelin LTX M/S2 tire.
Bought a set of 6 Michelin LTX M/S2s from Tire Buyer dot com. These are the same tires I had on my previous Tow Vehicle (2011 RAM 2500 CC/LB 4x4).
Hopefully this post will help someone else to DUMP the NEXEN tires and find a good Michelin Defender/LTX M/S2 set of replacement tires for a RAM 3500 DRW Tow vehicle. It was a costly lesson for me, but now I have 100% confidence in the tires to drive with peace of mind and comfort. Hard to put a price on that...
THANKS to all for your inputs, even those with the snide comments. I won't bother with another 'silly' post or 'complain' on the forum again.
Jack
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"THANKS to all for your inputs, even those with the snide comments. I won't bother with another 'silly' post or 'complain' on the forum again."
Ya gotta ignore certain members, who really try to post like members, "dicks" IOW.
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ive only had one Micheblow tire that was any good, that is was an XDE M+S in a true truck tire 225-70-19.5 LRG tire. ALL of the LT or P metric tures didnt do so well. Glad micheblows work for someone generally speaking.
In the meantime, I've found Cooper to be better tgan micheblows. Toyo too, but they are asking for too many of my kids per tire. Good Year a mixed bag......
Glad OP has issue fixed?!?!?!?.....
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Cummins12V98 wrote:Learjet wrote:Cummins12V98 wrote:Learjet wrote:38,000 miles on my Michelin LTX MS2 tires and they have been great and are wearing great!
I assume you had your front aligned to nearly ZERO toe???
No alignment changes...still set from factory.
I have seen your post about that...but I never had an issue with wear on the front tires. I do rotate the front tires only side to side every 10,000 miles. All good so far
VERY interesting!!! Are you the original owner?
yes, original owner bought new...less than 20 miles on it when I picked it up. Maybe, I got lucky
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Cummins12V98
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cummins2014 wrote:Cummins12V98 wrote:Learjet wrote:Cummins12V98 wrote:Learjet wrote:38,000 miles on my Michelin LTX MS2 tires and they have been great and are wearing great!
I assume you had your front aligned to nearly ZERO toe???
No alignment changes...still set from factory.
I have seen your post about that...but I never had an issue with wear on the front tires. I do rotate the front tires only side to side every 10,000 miles. All good so far
VERY interesting!!! Are you the original owner?
I had my truck set to the Thuren specs after the drag link recall replacement from whatever it was to near O toe. I too have never had any unusual tire wear prior to this alignment , hope that doesn't change ,setting to these Thuren specs . This is my third set of tires .
Not sure how much water this holds ,this near 0 toe . Been hearing this since I've owned the truck . We will see . I see no difference in handling , road wander etc . This is the first alignment my truck has had since new , 9 years . Not sure why, mostly because I had the drag link replaced .
To add my son is on his third Ram since 2008 , and its used daily for work ,lot of miles ,and he's never had one of his trucks aligned ,and again no unusual tire wear . Beginning to wonder about this 0 toe thing . Kinda funny that the manufacturer of these trucks don't set the toe to nearly 0 ,makes you wonder .
I don't believe I have ever recommended the near ZERO toe spec for a SRW truck. I only comment and recommend this to DRW trucks.
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Jack in Dixie wrote:PROBEM SOLVED: As a few members posted, an LT245/75R17E size tire will fit the 2021 RAM 3500 1-Ton dually. Was also able to find the tires I wanted all along in that size tire... the Michelin Defender LTX M/S and/or a Michelin LTX M/S2 tire.
Bought a set of 6 Michelin LTX M/S2s from Tire Buyer dot com. These are the same tires I had on my previous Tow Vehicle (2011 RAM 2500 CC/LB 4x4).
Hopefully this post will help someone else to DUMP the NEXEN tires and find a good Michelin Defender/LTX M/S2 set of replacement tires for a RAM 3500 DRW Tow vehicle. It was a costly lesson for me, but now I have 100% confidence in the tires to drive with peace of mind and comfort. Hard to put a price on that...
THANKS to all for your inputs, even those with the snide comments. I won't bother with another 'silly' post or 'complain' on the forum again.
Jack
I have to ask what are the date codes on the obsolete MS2's???
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Learjet wrote:Cummins12V98 wrote:Learjet wrote:Cummins12V98 wrote:Learjet wrote:38,000 miles on my Michelin LTX MS2 tires and they have been great and are wearing great!
I assume you had your front aligned to nearly ZERO toe???
No alignment changes...still set from factory.
I have seen your post about that...but I never had an issue with wear on the front tires. I do rotate the front tires only side to side every 10,000 miles. All good so far
VERY interesting!!! Are you the original owner?
yes, original owner bought new...less than 20 miles on it when I picked it up. Maybe, I got lucky
You are lucky!!!
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Cummins12V98 wrote:cummins2014 wrote:Cummins12V98 wrote:Learjet wrote:Cummins12V98 wrote:Learjet wrote:38,000 miles on my Michelin LTX MS2 tires and they have been great and are wearing great!
I assume you had your front aligned to nearly ZERO toe???
No alignment changes...still set from factory.
I have seen your post about that...but I never had an issue with wear on the front tires. I do rotate the front tires only side to side every 10,000 miles. All good so far
VERY interesting!!! Are you the original owner?
I had my truck set to the Thuren specs after the drag link recall replacement from whatever it was to near O toe. I too have never had any unusual tire wear prior to this alignment , hope that doesn't change ,setting to these Thuren specs . This is my third set of tires .
Not sure how much water this holds ,this near 0 toe . Been hearing this since I've owned the truck . We will see . I see no difference in handling , road wander etc . This is the first alignment my truck has had since new , 9 years . Not sure why, mostly because I had the drag link replaced .
To add my son is on his third Ram since 2008 , and its used daily for work ,lot of miles ,and he's never had one of his trucks aligned ,and again no unusual tire wear . Beginning to wonder about this 0 toe thing . Kinda funny that the manufacturer of these trucks don't set the toe to nearly 0 ,makes you wonder .
I don't believe I have ever recommended the near ZERO toe spec for a SRW truck. I only comment and recommend this to DRW trucks.
Didn't say you recommended anything. Thuren recommends it , and yes they recommend it on SRW , same reason you recommend it for DRW .
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