Mitas Tires

Doug Cotton · Dec 30, 2016

Bought a new John Deere 7230R this week. It has MITAS tires on it. Anybody know anything about these? Good or bad? They are made in Charles City, Ia, which I am glad to see. Just never heard of them before. Hopefully I have good luck with them, if not, they will be expensive to replace.

notjustair · Dec 30, 2016

I haven't been impressed with mine on the 886. I think they wear pretty fast but worse than that they are splitting like crazy. Not weather checking. I'm talking random slices in the tires on the case portion not the lugs. The splits are usually a couple inches long. They have slowly appeared on both tires over the years. They are mainly parallel to the direction of travel and are a clean split like a deep slash. The tires have held up well against stubble damage and I've never had any random object punctures. I'm just not a fan of them, unfortunately.

Doug Cotton · Dec 30, 2016

Thanks for the honest reply. Not exactly what I was hoping to see, but good to know.

Tom from IL · Dec 30, 2016

I have Mitas tires on a tractor I bought a year ago. I won't say that they would have been my first choice, but I haven't had any problems yet.

JD Seller · Dec 30, 2016

It depends on how old the Mitas tires are. Yours where more than likely made in Charles City Iowa. I have two sets that are 3-4 years old and they have been good so far. I know they were made in Iowa. I had a set 8-9 years ago that where imported. They did not last 3 years and the side walls cracked.

Doug Cotton · Dec 30, 2016

The tractor was built on 9-28-16. Assuming tires aren't too much older than that.

Doug Cotton · Dec 30, 2016

I bought the tractor off a dealer lot. Didn't order it, so had no say in tires.

oj · Dec 31, 2016

Have mitas on my loader tractor,mfd, been great so far, got about 2000hrs on them now, no wear to talk of, but very few highway miles... They do have great soil moving ability, sank the tractor a couple of times now, and once they start digging you'd better hope they find something solid quickly.

Doug Cotton · Dec 31, 2016

That's good to hear. Thanks for the response

CDN 400 · Dec 31, 2016

Put a new set of 800's on my combine 4 years ago and I am very happy so far. Minimal stubble wear and very little road wear and it sees a lot of road travel.

Doug Cotton · Dec 31, 2016

This is good news to me. Glad you like them. Hopefully I will too. Thanks for the response.

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