Just had Michelin XDN2's Installed...

Just replaced the super single Bridgestone Greatec drivers. Did not like the way those tires wear at all. I will be interested to see how these XDN2's perform, they come highly recommended.

I lucked out as far as what I ended up putting out money wise. I had already decided that I was going to go with them last week. I opened an Owner Operator Michelin Advantage Account last month. Even with the Advantage discount those tires are still over $900 a piece.

On Wednesday I got red lighted on a weigh scale. Officer came out and thumped my front passenger drive tire. He told me to park and bring in paperwork. Turns out I had run over something and had a slow leak resulting in the tire only having about 55 lbs when he pressure poked it. The guy let me go on 30 miles where there are two truck stops. He could have put me oos, but I told him I'd milk the ride and keep an eye on it.

Nice guy!...

Anyways, I made it to the truck stop. By the time they pulled me, almost an hour had past. Turns out they wouldn't try and repair it and didn't have a used super available. They didn't stock Michelin XDN2 either.

So, I drove out of the parking lot into the next parking where there was a Love's. The tech asked me what I needed and told him a used 445/50/22.5. He pointed over to a what looked like a brand new tire he had just unmounted from a new truck.

Guess the new truck had a tire failure on the highway and Love's road service brought out the only new 445/50/22.5 they had on the rack and put it on. The mega fleet company didn't want that tire because it didn't match, made Love's order in a matching tire and change it out.

Would you believe it if I told you it was a Michelin XDN2 445/50/22.5? LOL!

I asked the kid, "what do you want for that tire?"

"What are you thinking?" he asked.

"No, what are you thinking?" I asked trying not to show any emotion

"How about $250?" he said.

"$250 dollars?" I said. "Hmmm... well... okay, that sounds fair I guess...put it on..."

Sometimes you just get lucky and happen to be in the right place at the right time as I ended paying an effective rate of $772 per tire before labor.

 

The weight on the tire from losing air forced some cord to be exposed. Too be honest, I really didn't want to waste time having it repaired anyways as I had milked that set. As it turned out, it all worked out in my best interest anyways.

Interestingly enough, in 7 years of running supers, that's the first time I've encountered that.

 

That's some good feedback. I appreciate it very much!

 

As a follow-up, I had Centramatics installed on all three axles as well. We'll see how they work out as far as life extension, etc.

 

These XDN2's are performing very well.

I've put 140k miles on them so far. Rotated front to back @ 100k. No shoulder wear whatsoever. I'll rotate them again side to side at 200k

From the looks of it, they should easily go 300k miles.

 

A little data on my XDN2 tire performance.

27/32 new.
18/32 current
138,000 miles to date
9/32 used to date
15,333 miles per 1/32

Not too shabby.