Continental Tires

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Mike,

How old are the tires with the sidewall cracks? Looks weather related to me? It would be nice to save $1600 on a set of tires if the Continentals would just perform well.

I think there are some variables in the tire compounds of most tires resulting in variations of tire performance ranging from good to poor. I.E., the tires made in week 10 may not perform as well as tires made in week 20. Some manufacturers may be better at controlling the variables than others. There’s no concrete proof of that except that some people get good performance out of a particular brand and model of tires and others get lousy performance out of the same tire.

I’ve owned 4 new sets of “m” brand tires over the years and have been fortunate to have received good performance from them, therefore I never considered switching to another brand.

Conversely, I have owned Continental Conti tires that were OEM on three new cars I’ve purchased. All wore out prematurely between 10K & 20K miles. The last set on my 2016 Jeep had chunks of tread missing after 10K miles. Continental Customer Service was great to work with and replaced them all at no charge which I appreciated. Since they also own General Tire, they gave me the option of switching to General’s Altimax RT which (so far) seems to be performing well.

Because of the poor performance of the Continental Conti tires on my automobiles, I’d be a bit leary of putting them on my coach until there was history of users showing them to be a dependable and long lasting tire.