Had radial tubes put in when they where first mounted, my dealer recommended it because they where having issues with Michelin's leaking thru the sidewalls, they where also loaded but after the second flat on each tire I had them leave the fluid out, thought there might be a possibility the fluid could have something to do with it.
Each time there's been a flat there's a crack in the sidewall that has pinched the tube, they would boot the sidewall and patch or replace the tube. This morning they found another crack in the sidewall but where able to patch the tube, that saved me $90.
I've had Michelin's on cars and pickups and had service from them.
Run a few sets on some semi's and didn't like them, they wore good getting the most miles of any tire I ever ran, but got terrible traction in bad weather, once they where half worn they seemed to get really hard, on wet roads I've had the steer axle skid while turning and more than once had the rears break lose spinning and nearly cause a jackknife situation.
I ran a set of Armstrongs for 18 years without a flat, have a set of 8 year old Firestones and a set of 9 year old Alliances with no flats.
This set of Michelins are 7 years old and have had 6 flats in the last 3 years, don't want the buy a set of tires just yet but at the moment one more flat will probably push me over the edge, especially if that left tire goes flat a 5th time.
Got the rest of the hay baled here on the home farm, ready to move to the MIL's place but their calling for late evening rain the next 5 days, think I'll wait a few days, have some fence mending to do anyway before moving cows to another pasture.
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