The Best Tyres for a Motorhome in 2025?

Spring has well and truly sprung and now the annual pilgrimage to run the London Marathon is over, we’re gearing up our motorhome for a few weeks of wandering about. The poor thing’s been sat in storage neglected for many months, and needed some TLC, including a new set of tyres. Ours were getting old, two were fitted nine years ago, and although they looked OK we decided to play it safe and fit a new set.

Which brings us to the question of which tyres to get?

Motorhome tyres aren’t cheap. We don’t want to be spending more than we need to. But at the same time, having travelled across umpteen countries, we reckon the most risky thing about motorhome touring is driving. Out of all the stuff which has gone wrong for us (thankfully not much), a tyre blowout on a motorway in Spain felt (by far) the worse.

So these days we opt to spend more money on getting decent tyres for our 3.5 tonne A class motorhome.

There are a bunch of other considerations apart from the avoidance of blowouts:

• If you travel in winter, many countries outside the UK have legal requirements for tyres. Depending on the country, the tyres will either need the mud and snow (M+S) sidewall marking, or the three peak mountain snowflake (3PMSF) marking. In terms of grip, 3PMSF tyres have to pass standard tests, while the M+S ones don’t, so most folks only consider 3PMSF-marked tyres to be ‘winter’ tyres. More about 3PMSF and M+S markings here.
• Grip levels in the wet.
• How long they’ll last.
• The noise they make.
• How comfortable a ride you get with them fitted.
• How fuel economical they are.
• Whether they’re rated for the weight and speed of your vehicle.

It can get very complicated, very quickly. We’ve personally not noticed any difference in terms of ride or economy from different tyres, so our main drivers these days are legality and safety.

That blowout loosened our purse strings, and for the past ten years we’ve opted to use CP-marked tyres. These are specifically designed for motorhomes (CP stands for Camping Pneu, or camping tyre in French). Several manufacturers make CP-marked tyres, but the two we seem to come across the most are:

• Michelin – Agilis CrossClimate and Agilis Camping
• Continental – Vanco Camper

We’ve been using Agilis Camping for the past decade, but this year opted for the Michelin CrossClimate tyres. We specifically had to ask for the CP variant of these tyres, as Michelin market both C (commercial van) and CP (motorhome specific) variants under the CrossClimate label. We also noted these tyres need special high-pressure valves fitting as these tyres are inflated to over 65psi, but our wheels already had them.

Why CrossClimate? Because they seem to meet all our requirements, plus they’re 3PMSF-marked. They can be used all year round, including in winter across all of Europe. While we’re not currently touring in the snow and ice, we might in the next few years. These tyres were roughly £210 each fitted for our size wheels.

We’ve only driven about 50 miles on them so far and can’t tell any difference in terms of noise or ride. The tread pattern looks very aggressive, and we expect a good level of grip in all conditions. They’re supposed to last well even when used in summer conditions, and we’re not doing huge mileage these days, so they should keep us going for a few years.

Any thoughts folks? What tyres do you have fitted to your motorhome? How do you decide which ones to get?

Cheers, Jay