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08-13-2011, 09:44 AM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Auburn
Posts: 121
M.O.C. #7533
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Mission tires
I know everyone is posting about the Marathon Bombs on here, but I just looked at my tires and they say Mission Radials on them...did I get the step child of Marathon?
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08-13-2011, 10:06 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Midlothian
Posts: 956
M.O.C. #40
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I had Missions on the unit and drove into a parking area and had to cross a small curb to get to the RV spaces. less than a week later I had large bubbles in the sidewalls inside and out on the two that crossed the curb. I replaced with G-614s.
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08-13-2011, 10:09 AM
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Site Team
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Omaha
Posts: 6,794
M.O.C. #7560
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Missions were put on the units before the Marathons were put on if I'm not mistaken!
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08-13-2011, 10:39 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: McKinney
Posts: 7,361
M.O.C. #6433
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Been lots of reports of Mission blowouts and/or tread separation. I ran mine to 5,000 miles before replacing them with Michelins. Still looked good as far as tread, but the sidewalls were looking very rippled.
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Riley, our Golden
2007 3075RL (recently sold, currently without)
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08-13-2011, 10:49 AM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Harvey
Posts: 329
M.O.C. #8863
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Run as fast you can from the Mission Time Bombs. Seriously!! I replaced mine with the BFG Commercial TA this spring and after pulling off the missions and examining the rear drivers side tire, it had a broken belt that would have let go soon and probably done lots of $$$$ in damage. I have about 3-4 thousand on my BFG's now and just love the performance and ride. Great having the peace of mind of having quality tires on my expensive hobby. I did a couple months of research on line about LT tires and after talking to those who actually had real life experiences with them, I had no reservations about purchasing them.
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08-13-2011, 11:10 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Oak Harbor
Posts: 1,531
M.O.C. #2471
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As stated above Missions were before the Marathons, but lots of issues with them too. We had 3 tread separations and one blow out on our Mountaineer that had Missions.
Jack
What was left after the Mission blow out:
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08-13-2011, 11:46 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: merced
Posts: 983
M.O.C. #6171
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Look out for the Freestar tires. When I noticed cracks in the tread of mi Missions they were replaced, all 5 with Freestar tires, thought I would used them for a year or so, since they were free and then replace them with serving better later, Not a good idea.
Lost one on this last trip, probably cost $1000.00 in repairs.
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08-13-2011, 01:59 PM
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Montana Fan
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Logan
Posts: 104
M.O.C. #7928
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Missions are bad news. I got a couple of years out of them...before one started coming apart. I replaced them with LTs.
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08-13-2011, 02:31 PM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: K.C.
Posts: 11,731
M.O.C. #5980
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Bubble tire and Bomb tire, from China with love...
Bubble tire
Tire bomb
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08-14-2011, 12:59 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: corning
Posts: 694
M.O.C. #6635
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My daughter's SOB had Mission tires. This summer we went on a 1200 mile road trip, them with their SOB and us with our Montana. In two days they had two tires blow and a third was starting to delaminate. Tire pressures were checked each day before started driving. The tires were 5years old but looked new.
Two take aways... Stay away from Missions and replace tires on age not looks.
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08-14-2011, 06:08 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location:
Posts: 2,156
M.O.C. #6920
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Mission (China) tires are the parents of the GY Marathon (China) tires. I see you have a 2008 model and our is also which came with the Missions. Had separation of two Missions and bought 5 replacements right away. Mission tires are no longer being made under that name, anyway!
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08-14-2011, 10:53 AM
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Montana Master
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Oceanside
Posts: 20,028
M.O.C. #20
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I have lots of pictures of our problem tires, Mission, Freestar, and Marathon but won't post since there are already some good examples in this thread. I agree with those who say watch them very closely. You may be ok with them for awhile. Or not. Our last China bomb blowout did $2100 in damage when it blew out the side of the kitchen slide. Now we ride on tires made in the USA and have had no problem at all in 16 months. I can't recall ever going that long without problems with the Chinese tires.
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