Aeolus tires, anybody got any insight?

The company I drive for uses them on the trailers. They don't seem to last as long as the original Bridgestones the trailers come with. We run tridems with a fourth steering lift axle so there is a lot of scrubbing when turning hard. The china tires just don't last from my experience.

The lower cost is a hard thing to ignore but sometimes the lower initial cost ends up costing more in the long run. You can also get a casing credit back from your old tires but I don't think any places give a casing credit for china tires. This also shifts the over all cost.

Bill

 

Have used them for the last 2 years and have a great run, we don't get great km's out of any tyre anyway.
What I like about them is it brought the price of other good tyre brands down, I have changed to Hankook and I get a better rate for the leftover case as I only run new.

 

Aeolus is the Greek god of the winds.

The only reason I can see for naming a tire line after Aeolus is to prepare the buyer for plenty of blowouts!

 

the Aeolus trailer tires we have are absolute garbage.

 

Quite a few scrap haulers run them. They don't blow out or wear funny but they wear out fast doing heavy (100,000 lbs plus)regional work.

 

We run them on all our trucks, they are one of the best bang for buck tyre out there and probably the best of the Chinese tyres. Nearly all agitators over here are running them, never had a problem, we don't like running expensive tyres though as we tear the sidewalls and get punctures pretty often but $240 bucks for a good retread v $350 for a clean skin means we don't run retreads anymore. I got 48000k's from my last front set on a twin steer which chew steer tyres, I only got 35000k's from the original bridgestones.

 

If it was me I would put the Chinese on the drives and michelins on the steers.

 

$500-600 is too much for those tires, u can use quality on the steer.