I replaced the Continental tires today with four Michelin LTX M/S LT235/85R16.

I needed a tire that I could hopefully get much better mileage and I wanted to increase my ground clearance for boon-docking.

The tires look great and with 15/32 of rubber they are a lot of tire. The TPMS didn’t seem to have any problem (I reset it before I left the parking lot). The very initial numbers for speed show analog 45 mph, digital 46 mph and gps 47 mph. I have no pre numbers for the digital but with the Continental’s the analog was about 2-3 mph below gps.

I also ordered a new spare the same size as I was worried if I put the stock spare on the ECU would put me in a “limp” mode when it detected the difference in diameter.

Tags: Michelin, tires

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