Michelin XZE

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