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To: EyesOfTX

Damn it! Why, Goodyear, why?!?! I don’t like other manufacturers tires...


5 posted on 08/19/2020 9:24:19 AM PDT by Intar
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To: Intar

Please don’t get their tires

they doubled down on their position in a reply

Some things, it’s really hard not to buy from a liberal owned place.

Tired ain’t one of them. There are other good ones out there.

You CANNOT show support for Trump there, or even all lives.

just men who cut their privates off and blm


12 posted on 08/19/2020 9:26:17 AM PDT by dp0622 (I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE COVID GODFATHER I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. YOU CAN ACT LIKE A MAN!)
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To: Intar
Michelins are overpriced and worth every penny.

Their road grip is excellent.

True story: I had some no name tires on my car, and ended up driving home cross country on "a dark and stormy night." It was one of those country roads that hadn't been repaved in years, and had depression ruts that held water. Had to slow down to about 40 in a 65 to keep from hydroplaning. The next week I went to the tire shop and told him I wanted Michelins. Dealer tried to tell me my tires didn't need to be replaced. I told him, "do it."

I used to be in the business, and Michelins are very good (I sold Michelins, so YMMV.) However, true story:

I had a territory that covered three full states and two partial states. In two years, we had something like three Michelins come in from all dealers that were claimed to be defective. Upon inspection, two of them (truck tires) had been on a logging truck that was overloaded by 100,000 pounds (troof. We went to the guy's logging operation and said we wouldn't cover anymore tires unless we weighed a random truck coming out of the facility. Legal limit is 80,000 pounds. His truck weighed in at over 200,000 pounds.) The only other one we got in that period was from a guy who had a tire blow out about halfway across Arizona. He was driving from Houston, hadn't stopped, and when he gave us the time he left Houston and the time his tire blew, he'd been driving at an average of at least 95 mph for over fifteen hours. In the summer.

When I left Michelin, I ended up taking a fill in job at a single dealership while waiting for my next job to open up. We go more defective tires every single day (Firestone and Goodyear) at that single dealer than I got in two years for a multi-state territory with Michelin. Disclaimer #2: This was the 70s, with the Firestone 721 debacle, and that REALLY upped the number of defective tires.

92 posted on 08/19/2020 11:22:22 AM PDT by Richard Kimball (WWG1WGA)
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