Michelin

OK a very quick history lesson first. Two brothers, Édouard and Andre Michelin, had this rubber factory in France. One day, a cyclist with a punctured pneumatic tyre arrived at the factory. His tyre was glued onto the rim, and It took over three hours to remove it, then repair the tyre, which then had to be left overnight to dry. The next day, Edouard took the repaired bicycle into the factory yard for test. After just a few hundred meters, the repair failed. Despite the setback, he was still enthusiastic about pneumatic tyres, and along with his Brother Andre, started making their, own, which did not need glueing onto the wheel rim. In 1891, they took out ...

I bought brand new michelin tires january 2006 bought them with 138,000 miles on my car and tread is nearly gone by 155,000 worse tires i have ever bought when i went back to the store. they quickly blamed my alignment but when i provided paper work of my alignments every year they soon sang a different song got the alignment done by mercedes itself they still refused to exchange the tires, michelin lost alot of points with me as a tire company but who can blame me they dont recieve good reviews by anyone ...

I will begin by saying that however much of a motoring enthusiast you are - or you are not, if you are a driver, then the four rubber bands between you and the road surface are, in terms of safety, the most important component on your whole car. This being a "RICHADA" review, and to reinforce my point above, a short sharp shock story before arrival at the crux of the actual product review…….. …….It makes me wince when I see people abusing tyres by bashing them over curbs or leaving a car balanced precariously on a curb, with only half of the tyre supporting maybe as much as 500kg in weight. I know a gentleman who does just this, and then ...