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Michelin Agilis CrossClimate Tires?

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Beamie Enthusiast

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Anyone have experience with these? TireRack rates them better than Defender LTX, if that's possible. Looking for snow capable highway tires for our Tahoe and seeing these muddied the waters.

CamGTP Senior Enthusiast

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All the sizes in the CrossClimate's available for trucks are going to be a LT tire and you will not want that on a half ton Tahoe.

 

They are good tires but not for your vehicle. My work sells ton and tons of them to commercial accounts like U-haul, penske etc etc for the E350-E450 vans. As well as the Transit vans.

 

Stick with the Defender LTX M/S for a highway tire on a half ton.

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diyer2 Senior Enthusiast

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CamGTP Seems you have more experience than me about tires.

Hate the factory tires on our 2019 Honda CR-V. We drive dirt roads in the mountains of Colorado but most driving is 2 lane blacktop mountain roads. 

What do you think of the Defender LTX M/S in this situation. I have looked at lot of tires and still haven't decided.

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My experience with brand new Defenders in snow wasn’t so good, ice was really bad. KO2’s as well as DuraTracs are awesome in the snow.


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diyer2 Senior Enthusiast

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As they should be. More aggressive tread.

I want all season, quiet.

I think the Defender is the best tire in this category.

 

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CamGTP Senior Enthusiast

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Honestly if you live in the mountains and deal with snow for 6 month out of the year I would seriously consider a snow tire for those months. It doesn't even have to be the top tier brand of snow tire either, just about any decent snow tire is going to be better than regular all season tire.

 

Bridgestone, Firestone, Falken, Cooper all make good snow tires and even the Nokian Hakkapeliitta tire is awesome. The Nokian is one of the most popular snow tires in northern Europe.

 

 

Whatever you decide do not get the Michelin Premier LTX's, they are garbage when it comes to tread life.

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diyer2 Senior Enthusiast

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Thanks CamGTP.

Snow tires would be the best. They do a decent job on our roads in winter and being retired we can avoid hazardous driving conditions. So an all season quiet tire will do IMO. 

The CR-V is all wheel drive and last winter we had no problems with the factory tires but they are noisy. 

My truck has all season tires and they are fine IMO.

I think I will try the Defenders on the Honda. They get good reviews. 

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Same here. We gave up AT tire drone a long time ago.

We had a couple of rounds of Michelin LTX M/S and loved them but I made the mistake of letting our dealer talk me into the competing Cooper model. Bad decision. Quiet and fine in three seasons but they stink in the snow and wore out very fast.

I hope the Defenders are like the old series.

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kstruckcountry Senior Enthusiast

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I wouldn't hesitate to run 10 ply E rated tires. I have been running 10 ply for about 120,000 miles, and consequently, I haven't had a single puncture or flat in that time. Last 2 sets have been Cooper ATWs (softer, winter rated AT3 basically).

As stated, there are a lot of dedicated snow tires that will do great in the snow. In my opinion, if you live in mountains that is the way to go.

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We are hoping for snow but it's definitely not the good old days around here.

For all season tires the old Michelin LTX M/S tires were the best for us.

 

We used to have four dedicated snows on our euro car that was otherwise useless in snow. You'd think it doesn't snow in Germany! Snow tires have their place and work but the noise level is annoying if used all the time like having knobbies on a street bike.

 

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Donstar Senior Enthusiast

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A winter has passed since the last entry on this thread and I'm hoping to read about some new experiences on this newer product.  I have a set of Michelin Agilis Crossclimate tires in my plans for my '15 Sierra 1500.  I have not had any problems with my Defenders over the past five winters, but now want a tire with an official winter designation.  The tread pattern on the Agilis tires look very similar to Michelin highway tires and should provide a decent ride.  Please let me know any good or bad opinions about my choice as it's not to late for me to change brands! Thanks!

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If you don't mind the LT tire rating, it should still be a good tire to run. As far as I know they don't have a P rated tire for the truck size crossclimate agilis tires.

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On 10/4/2021 at 10:30 AM, Donstar said:

A winter has passed since the last entry on this thread and I'm hoping to read about some new experiences on this newer product.  I have a set of Michelin Agilis Crossclimate tires in my plans for my '15 Sierra 1500.  I have not had any problems with my Defenders over the past five winters, but now want a tire with an official winter designation.  The tread pattern on the Agilis tires look very similar to Michelin highway tires and should provide a decent ride.  Please let me know any good or bad opinions about my choice as it's not to late for me to change brands! Thanks!

 

I read that it is a commercial tire akin to the BFGoodrich Commercial T/A All-Season tire.  These are made for 2500s and 3500s.

 

BFG just came out with a Trail-Terrain tire with the snowflake rating that is optimized for highway use but can do light off-roading with 1500 sized trucks.

 

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On 10/7/2021 at 12:06 AM, swathdiver said:

 

I read that it is a commercial tire akin to the BFGoodrich Commercial T/A All-Season tire.  These are made for 2500s and 3500s.

 

BFG just came out with a Trail-Terrain tire with the snowflake rating that is optimized for highway use but can do light off-roading with 1500 sized trucks.

 

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The specs and the looks of this tire look good.  It appears that they are not available in Canada yet but I will keep looking!

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