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All position L rated 315 Goodyear Tires
AITA price each, includes FET
G291 – regional/urban – 68 mph – $528 – G291 link
Marathon LHS – long haul – 75 mph – $537 – Marathon link
G670 RV MRT – regional/urban – 75 mph – $793 – G670RV linkProduct Application Guide – Guide link
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Bought 4 315’s in April at $3444.64 including taxes through the national account we use with Dupree Products.
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Has anyone purchased Michelin 315’s since April?
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Still trying to find 12R 22.5. Tires are now 10 years old and Michelin can’t come up with any. I think I will have to buy some Goodyears or GoodRich’s. Even Firestone if I can’t find anything else.
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Michelin’s were non existent for me as well. I went with Toyo M-170 in the 12R22.5. Run good, no problems after 4 years.
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I do wonder at times how much business Michelin has lost due to the lack of availability of tires. I realize it is not to our benefit to have tires sizes that are not common with trucks, but it would appear getting the correct tire after an on road failure is very difficult.
When we make a planned tire purchase and have trouble getting Michelins of the correct size it proves the scope of this problem is significant. Given the issues with 365 tires I am concerned about their availability, especially if a failure occurs while we are traveling.
Over the years I have had trouble buying 120 size and 315 size so this is not a new problem.
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Great point Jon!!!!
Like the very successful gentleman I worked for in the airplane said often: You can’t run a grocery store with any groceries!
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Early on, I had to get the front tires replaced under warranty as the driver’s side tire was ‘out of round’. Interesting that Prevost Mira Loma had them available with good date codes. They also gave me the ‘Star-Trek super Galactic’ 3 axle laser alignment.
I noticed on the warranty invoice the 365’s were $1,002 each. Do you think they are doing this to keep tire prices up?
I wonder how far in advance that we would need to order as I want to replace all the tires in about a year. My rear tires have late ’13 and early ’14 date codes (the fronts are ’15).
Mark
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Since Prevost is an OEM (original equipment manufacturer) you can bet the farm Michelin will never fail to deliver 365 or 315 tires to Prevost when they are needed. You can also bet that with the muscle fleet owners have, and I am thinking of Greyhound here, they also are not ever going to be without spares. But stuff happens and for Prevost to understand how we are impacted all they need is for Michelin to fail to deliver to them.
As the fleets get smaller, and then as we progress down the food chain to individual owners, our needs get addressed only after everyone else upstream is taken care of and Prevost so far has not had to experience the pain we individual owners have endured.
Prevost and Greyhound both should be shaking in their boots because large businesses never ever want to be at the mercy of a sole supplier. If Michelin fails to be able to produce 365 tires, the amount of noise we might make is nothing compared to the shit storm they will endure if any of Prevost production is shut down, or if Greyhound has to park its almost 400 Prevost coaches.
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Warning: Modest thread creep.
Mr. Mark: Did you notice a difference in handling after three axle alignment? Did the tech find much out of spec in what I would suspect was an almost brand new coach?
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I put new tires all around about 3 weeks ago…We have a national tire account with a local tire dealer and it only took him 2 days to get my tires in…the only ones he actually had to order were the 365’s…the 315’s are pretty common in our area…All 8 tires were just under $7200 including all tax and disposal fees… DT
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“Mr. Mark: Did you notice a difference in handling after three axle alignment? Did the tech find much out of spec in what I would suspect was an almost brand new coach?”
I think with Prevost replacing the front tires, they wanted to make sure everything was perfect by also giving the coach an alignment. Like anything that is done to the coach, I always ‘feel’ like I can tell a difference, like a placebo I guess. LOL!
I honestly don’t remember if our alignment was out of spec or not. I know that the steering wheel was perfectly straight afterwards where it was slightly to the right before.
Safe travels,
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I don’t know about Prevost service at locations other than Nashville, but when I had my alignment done the tech said he was not satisfied with the settings to be within the allowable range, it was his goal to be in the middle of the allowable range. He also biased it slightly for predominantly RH lane driving to compensate for the crown in the road.
Every Prevost I owned handled and drove better than the previous one, but after the alignment there was a definite improvement which I never expected.
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I had the exact same experience as Jon did at Prevost in Jacksonville. The drive axle was way of tolerance (which caused me to chase the coach all over the road), so much so the tech was surprised. Said someone outside of Prevost must have used an imprecise machine to adjust alignment at some point, had the largest stack of shims he’d ever seen. First the tech got it within tolerance, then smiled and said “now I’m going to dead center” which he did. Then he asked if I normally run in the right lane, I said I did, and he put a little left trim into it for me compensate for the crown of the road. The tech was originally from Quebec. Very nice guy.
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Looks like I will be installing BF Goodrich on the drive axle. Local truck company has 12R 22.5 in stock and will run just under $600/tire balanced and installed.
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FYI everyone. My last buy of tires using FMCA advantage program had the cost of 315s slightly OVER the cost of a 365. Go figure.
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