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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

Car: MG ZT 1.8 Turbo Tyre: Michelin Pilot Sports 225/45R 18inch For any of you that have read my review of my life with the MG, you may be surprised to learn that the two of us are still together after two and a half years. In fact, it shortly will have to undergo its first MOT, I having originally bought it as a 6 month old demonstration car. Despite all the initial problems, since it has had its second engine (under warranty – before MG Rover went bust), it has not missed a beat. It is still, to drive, one of, if not the best car I have ever driven. I have gone through two complete sets of tyres on this car. It was originally supplied ...  Read the complete review

When my OEM-fit Bridgeston Potenza RE040s finally made it down to the tread-wear indicator I had them replaced with a pair of the new Michelin Pilot Exaltos. In a 205-45/17 fitting these are fairly intimidating beasties and at £140 per tyre, so they should be! None of your swoopy curves and slashes that look all sexy. Oh no. These purposeful hunks of rubber have three MASSIVE channels running around the tyre combined with some fairly agressive lugs (sipes?) around the outside edge. The mention of an outside edge indicates that these are directional tyres but maybe not in the strictest sense. The Bridgestones had an arrow indicating the direction of ...  Read the complete review