Commercial Truck/Bus. Medium-Duty Truck All-Position Radial tire with Extra-Wide, Extra-Deep Tread Designed to Help Deliver Best Wear in High Scrub Regional and Line Haul Applications.
Features
- Certain sizes have chip and cut resistant tread compound
- Full-width protector ply
- Extra strong curb guards
- Variable pitch groove walls
- Full-depth sipes
- Miniature groove-wall sipes
- Beefy, buttressed shoulders
- Customized, five-rib,zig-zag tread pattern
- Application-specific high scrub compounds
- Rectangular bead bundle - a Michelin® exclusive
- Groove bottom protectors
Benefits
- Helps protect the working plies from bruising and penetrations, lowering downtime
- Help protect sidewalls against most impacts and abrasions for long casing life
- Help prevent stones from lodging in the tread, to extend casing life and improve retreadability
- Offer all-wheel position traction throughout the life of the tire
- Help provide traction and more even wear
- Help resist tearing and accelerated wear in high scrub applications
- Combines fast water evacuation for excellent wet traction with an aggressive, evolving tread pattern that helps maintain driver confidence throughout the long tread life
- For chip and cut resistance (in LRH versions with designation) make the XZE tire our longest wearing regional steer tire
- Simulates a solid steel rod "strapping" the tire onto the wheel. This design stabilizes the entire bead region and minimizes fatigue in order to extend casing life
- Help deliver additional defense against stone drilling
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