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Multi-Life

In the transportation business, there is no other tyre management package to match Michelin Truck Tyre Management. In addition to service without parallel from the tyre industry's best-trained personnel, the package offers the Multi-Life of the Michelin truck tyre, incorporating regrooving for extra mileage and Recamic, our unique retreading process. This is backed up with quality service from the authorised Michelin network.

By adopting Michelin Truck Tyre Management, you can achieve approximately three times the tyre life for less than two times the cost, which converts to big savings on your tyre bills. Make Michelin Truck Tyre Management part of your policy and use it to your advantage.

The Multi-Life package
By selecting the right tyre according to vehicle type and operating conditions, you give yourself the opportunity of fully exploiting the Multi-Life capability of Michelin truck tyres.
Life 1: The new tyre
Life 2: Regroove
Life 3: Recamic
Life 4+: Recamic
Life 1: The new tyre
Michelin truck tyres give excellent performance over a long and reliable first life:
  • Only the highest quality materials are used in manufacture
  • Strict quality control
  • Computer-designed, precision-engineered casing
  • Innovative tread patterns for increased grip
  • Outstanding braking and traction on wet or dry road surfaces
  • Directional stability and a vibration-free ride for driver comfort and load protection
  • Lower rolling resistance for greater fuel economy
  • Long tread life for high mileage and cost savings
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Life 2: Regroove
Regrooving, a proven method of increasing tyre life, is essential if you are to obtain the maximum cost saving and life potential from your Michelin truck tyres:
Michelin Truck Tyre Sidewall Markings
 
  • Tyre life increased by up to 28.5%
  • All popular sizes designed for regrooving
  • A quick, easy and economical task
  • Greatly improves wet road grip and safety due to the deepening and widening of the tread pattern
  • Does not prejudice casing acceptance for the Recamic retreading process
  • Regroove Depth Indicators for accuracy

For help and advice on regrooving, consult your Michelin Representative.

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Life 3: Recamic
When your Michelin tyres reach the end of their second life it is time to return them to an authorised Michelin Dealer for the Recamic Cold Retread Process:
  • A unique and technologically advanced retreading process
  • The performance and mileage benefits of the Michelin tyre
  • Uses new Michelin tread compounds for similar performance as a new Michelin tyre
  • Tyres rebuilt to their original high quality using the very latest equipment
Recamic
  • Unique bonding for improved reliability
  • In service operating temperatures reduced to improve life and reliability
  • Unique numbering process of the tyre casing increases security and provides detailed inspection reports
  • Michelin truck tyres are acknowledged as having the highest casing acceptance rate in the industry
  • Interchangeable tread patterns
Consult your local Michelin Representative to discuss the various casing management options.
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Life 4+: Recamic
With preventative care and maintenance, your Michelin/Recamic tyres should benefit from further Recamic processing. This improves the tyre performance and reduces operating costs. Interchangeable tread pattern allows flexibility of utilisation:
  • Casing quality
  • Tyre casing durability
  • Quality of Recamic processing ensures little tyre degradation
  • Interchangeable retreads
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Michelin Truck tyres are available exclusively from Advantage at www.AdvantageTyres.com and Michelin Authorised Retail Partners.



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