Michelin XZE vs Landgolden..

Same boat here, have a buddy that wholesales me tires, for around the same price, from my experience if you balance them and keep your pressure the way it's supposed to be the knockoffs last as long, it will be once worn, you will see a huge difference in traction, the knockoffs don't do as well once they start to ware out

 

The cheap tires will probably last about 100k miles. The cost works out to be close to the same you're just replacing tires more often. The only potential advantage would be if you do a lot of construction site deliveries. Ruining a $221 tire would be a lot less painful.

 

I personally don’t like expensive tires but we tend to ruin more than our fair share at jobsites and going places that trucks really shouldn’t go for deliveries. Pretty much run bandag recaps on everything but steers. I don’t know for sure if it’s a bandag thing or if it’s my distributor but they stand behind them…so far only had one failure…inside sidewall blowout. And I got a new tire out of the deal. At least on mud grip drives they’re usually about 1/2 what something reliable is and last very well. I know that is not what you’re wanting but just my experience. I also don’t know anyone who has ever bought Michelin drives and regretted it

 

I put Toyos in my truck a few weeks ago saved $250 per tire over the Bridgestone 726s I pulled off, michilens were like $40 a tire more.

Surprised I didn’t take much of a mpg hit either

 

That has been my experience as well

 

I run brand name on my tractor. I have Michelin on my steers. I needed tires right after Covid, I run 24.5 low pros and all I could get during that time was road master drives. They were $525 a piece and are wearing ok, but have a very hard ride and I would not buy them again. I run cheap tires on my trailer. When the road masters wear out I will be replacing them with Michelin.

 

Ive used both cheap and expensive tires. But im also an end dump so my truck ends up driving through some less then pleasent places for trucks. My experince has been the good brand tires tend to hold up to damage and wear much better then the cheap ones. Also the cheap tires traction tends to go to hell when they get worn.

From my personal experince the cheap brands end up getting replaced every quarter or so from stuff like wearing funny or just getting damaged by really stupid crap. Such as a rock getting pushed into the cables.

In the end the cheaper tires cost me more then the michlins even before lost time was taken into consideration. But ymmv

 

Almost all the rubber in the world comes from Thailand. Most of the major tire manufacturers have plants in Thailand. My Michelin trailer tires are made there. -Allot of those not so good Chinese tires, well, the materials came from Thailand.