[R129 SL] R129LIST Digest, Vol 39, Issue 3

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My 1995 SL600 had a full set of new Michelin Sport AS tires on it when I  
bought the car in 2004. When the tires had about 15,000 miles on them one of  
them exploded on the Interstate at about 70 MPH. Literally both the inside and  
outside sidewalls disintegrated, all that was left was the tread and the two  
beads still attached to the rim. Michelin claimed that there wasn't a tire  
problem, even though a Michelin tire specialist told me he could feel slight  
tread separation on the remaining three tires. Michelin did offer to replace the  
tire as "customer goodwill". Sure enough, a few months later, at about 30 
MPH, a  second tire blew out. There were over two dozen failures on both the 
inside and  outside sidewalls. Michelin again told me there could be no inherent 
tire  problem and refused to do anything about what was obviously a defective 
set of  tires.
Needless to say, the remaining two tires from the original set quickly  wound 
up getting scrapped as I put four new Bridgestone Potenza RE960AS on  the 
car. We do not get snow and ice here in coastal Georgia, but in both dry and  wet 
conditions the Bridgestone's handle at least as well as the Michelins and  
inspire a lot more confidence that they will hold  together.



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