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re: Best replacement tires? Any tire experts on here?
Posted on 10/31/16 at 9:25 pm to WMTigerFAN
Posted on 10/31/16 at 9:25 pm to WMTigerFAN
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Hard to find, thinking about the online option.
go to tirerack.com...very easy to research brands/sizes there and they ship to your local installer.
I found that after the inflated installer fees, it worked out to around what I would have spent locally anyway, but the tires arrived a whole lot sooner.
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Posted on 10/31/16 at 9:36 pm to Muahahaha
I was right about one thing...you are a lesbian.
Posted on 10/31/16 at 10:45 pm to Muahahaha
I typically go with either Michelin, BF Goodrich, or Toyo on our vehicles. Currently running BFG KOs on my truck and Michelin somethings on my wife's car.
Posted on 11/1/16 at 9:51 am to meauxjeaux2
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meauxjeaux2 posts:
I dealt with dozens of vehicles a day every day for over 13 years professionally.
What name brand tires are prone to blowouts?
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WHAT WE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT TIRES:
A HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
Alas, in the mid-seventies Firestone Tire decided to get into radials on the cheap, fabricating radial tires on machines made for building bias tires. The tires came apart in a spectacular manner. Firestone recalled close to 9 million of its Firestone 500 steel-belted radial tires. From 1977 to 1980, Firestone’s tire business dropped 25 percent, resulting in the layoff of 25,000 workers. The company went from a $110 million profit to $106 million loss, and its stock dropped from $15 down to $10 a share. Firestone was rescued when Bridgestone Tire bought them in 1988.
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Firestone and Ford tire controversy
The Firestone and Ford tire controversy was a period of unusually high tire failures on the Ford Explorer and related vehicles equipped with Firestone tires.
In May 2000, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) contacted Ford and Firestone about the high incidence of tire failure on Ford Explorers, Mercury Mountaineers, and Mazda Navajos fitted with Firestone tires.
Ford investigated and found that several models of 15-inch Firestone tires (ATX, ATX II, and Wilderness AT) had very high failure rates, especially those made at Firestone's Decatur, Illinois plant.
The failures all involved tread separation[9][10]—the tread peeling off followed often by tire disintegration.[
Over 240 deaths resulted from these failures
Not every single death occurred in the Ford Explorer/Firestone tire combination.[16]
It is estimated that 3,000 catastrophic injuries also resulted from this issue.[16]
Many of the recalled tires had been manufactured during a period of strike at Firestone.
Firestone ultimately recalled millions of tires including 2.8 million Firestone Wilderness AT tires
only 90,259 of those tires were confirmed as removed from service
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Since 2000, there are have been several major recalls of tires. In the early 2000s, there were massive recalls of more than 15 million tires of several types of Bridgestone and Firestone tires (Bridgestone owns Firestone), especially those put on the Ford Explorer SUV, which resulted in a number of crashes and rollover accidents, killing and seriously injuring hundreds of motorists. For example, Firestone’s Wilderness AT tire
tires made overseas (such as in China) may not be as safe as those made in the United States.
The following tire manufacturers and tire brands have issued recalls for tread separation and dangerous tires:
•Bridgestone Tires
•Continental Tires
•Cooper Tires
•Firestone Tires
•General Tires
•Goodyear Tires
•Kumho Tires
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And, what about those tires recalled in 2000?
In 2013, a reporter for Channel 2 Action News, in Atlanta, was able to purchase a “brand new” Firestone Wilderness AT tire that was actually included in that recall but was still in the store.
Posted on 11/1/16 at 10:13 am to ATL-TIGER-732
did you really go there with the firestone/Explorer debacle? 
Holy frick dude. You do know it was mostly the fault of the design of the high center mass and live rear axle design of the Ford Explorer right?
I worked for Firestone at the time this shite went down and the recall was just to appease the media storm that was coming. Wasn't the fault of the tire or any defects even though Firestone cowed down to pressure.
Much akin to the random Toyota acceleration issue that turned out to be nonexistent.
Ford changed the design of the Explorer to an independent suspension after this.
Hmm.. Wonder why?
Holy frick dude. You do know it was mostly the fault of the design of the high center mass and live rear axle design of the Ford Explorer right?
I worked for Firestone at the time this shite went down and the recall was just to appease the media storm that was coming. Wasn't the fault of the tire or any defects even though Firestone cowed down to pressure.
Much akin to the random Toyota acceleration issue that turned out to be nonexistent.
Ford changed the design of the Explorer to an independent suspension after this.
Hmm.. Wonder why?
Posted on 11/1/16 at 10:23 am to Muahahaha
I've always like Firestones. I always get the highest number of ply's a certain tire model is offered in.
Posted on 11/1/16 at 10:34 am to meauxjeaux2
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did you really go there with the firestone/Explorer debacle?
And you conveniently ignored all these:
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Since 2000, there are have been several major recalls of tires.
The following tire manufacturers and tire brands have issued recalls for tread separation and dangerous tires:
•Bridgestone Tires
•Continental Tires
•Cooper Tires
•Firestone Tires
•General Tires
•Goodyear Tires
•Kumho Tires
You are more interested in protecting your ego than in getting bad tires off the road.
Posted on 11/1/16 at 10:36 am to ATL-TIGER-732
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And you conveniently ignored all these:
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Since 2000, there are have been several major recalls of tires.
The following tire manufacturers and tire brands have issued recalls for tread separation and dangerous tires:
•Bridgestone Tires
•Continental Tires
•Cooper Tires
•Firestone Tires
•General Tires
•Goodyear Tires
•Kumho Tires
You are more interested in protecting your ego than in getting bad tires off the road.
Products get recalled all the time. I didn't think it necessary to address those because there was no stories about fatalities involving those. I seem to remember an issue with some Continental tires a long time ago.
Posted on 11/1/16 at 1:10 pm to FishinTygah84
Buy Michelin, period.
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