MegaDodge
Ontario, Canada
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Ordered new XPS Ribs today for my fifth wheel. (Everest 323P 13000 pounds.) Four tires 235's new steel valve stems, mounted and balanced, fee for disposal of the old tires...which are the same exact tires exactly five years old. Total $1423.00. Pricey, but they are good.
MegaDodge
Dodge CTD 1 ton. 5 speed.
2003 Everest 323P 5th wheel 13000 pounds ready to roll. .
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Golden_HVAC
Fulltime, CA, USA
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Hi,
I bought a pair of them in 2007 for $157 each at Wal Mart. Now they are $351 each, plus mounting and balance. What a change, I guess they are mostly oil based products to build the tires, and transportation costs went way up too, on supplies going to the factory as well as supplies leaving the factory to the local distributor.
Change - I know it happened here.
Fred.
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Randu
South Central Michigan
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I work for a company that uses carbon black in some of our processes and it is on allocation as demand is exceeding supply and driving cost in addition to the other oil based resins and chemicals. Randu
2004 GMC Sierra 2500HD SLT CC 8'BOX
8.1 Gas/Allison
2008 Mobile Suites 36TK3 Unit# 3983 -- new to me 8/12/11
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ExRocketScientist
Laurel, MD
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Don't forget that there is heat input into the manufacturing process. As the cost of energy goes up, so does the cost to put all of the raw materials together.
ERS
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Dick_B
Palos Heights, IL USA
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I tow with more confidence since I installed the same tires on my RV after two flat tires in two years with the original Goodyear tires.
Dick_B
2003 SunnyBrook 27FKS
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One wife, two bikes (both Electric Schwinn's with motor assist)
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BB_TX
McKinney, Texas
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Have had the ribs on mine now for 3 1/2 years. Great tires. 10,000+ miles and still look new.
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Center Pin
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Just be glad they didn't lower the price by moving production to China!
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Hgarnerno1
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I just put them on my Lexus. $1350 for 4 of them. They were around $900 two years ago.
Howard, USN Ret
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zak21
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Just reading about this tire as it has been mentioned before and raved about. It says that this is a summer tire and shouldn't be used near or below freezing or on ice/snow covered roads.
Does this bother anybody that currently owns them or have you had any negative cold weather experience with them?
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parkmanaa
Houston, Tx.
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zak21, The Michelin XPS is made in 2 tread designs: The XPSrib, which is a ribbed highway design and would be about the same as any other ribbed tire on wet, ice/snow covered roads. Don't know where the 'shouldn't be used near or below freezing' came from. I suspect that is one person's opinion.
It is also made in the XPStraction design, which is a more aggressive tread design and should be good on wet/freezing/snow-packed roads.
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