Posted on 11/28/2023 8:59:49 PM PST by jfd1776
I don’t often take advantage of Black Friday deals, but I needed a set of tires, so I steeled myself for battle, and entered the hunt.
The one thing most shops don’t advertise online is the country of origin (I wonder why), so I handled that part by phone. I called the shop, identified the deal I was looking for, and asked them to check the country of manufacture (as far as I’m concerned, USA would be nice, but I don’t want tires made in China). He put me on hold while he looked at the tire, and returned with the news: Singapore!
Great, I said, we’ve got a deal.
So I looked at it when they were done, and it turns out, the tire says “Designed in Singapore.” But I kept looking. I knew that if the tire said where it was designed, then it would also say where it was made. Sure enough, I found, in the same small font, a few inches away: “Made in Thailand.”
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Probably why tires don’t last as long as they used to
I bought a set of Goodyear VIVA 3 for one of my cars years ago - they were falling apart within a few years.
I replaced 2 but I’m going to have to replace the other 2 before too long, I’m sure
Last I checked you couldn’t even get that tire anymore - too bad that they didn’t last - I really liked how the car drove, too
Goodyear VIVA 3 was made for WalMart only (it appears)
The US needs an Indian-style blocked currency.
We need to restore our domestic industrial base.
The US economy runs on rubber tires.
I have been buying Yokohama tires for my daily drivers for several years. I don’t know where they are made but they hold up better than anything else.
I had to buy some tires for my then-very old car and the guy suggested buying lower-priced tires, because, he explained, the main difference is how long they will last, and since my car was old, it didn’t make sense to invest in tires that might last longer than the car. Along with other ratings, one is of the miles they expect the tire to last for, like 40k or 80k.
I got 80,000 mile tires in 2011 or so
But within 8 years they were drying out and rotting
I never had tires do that before
That is very strange! The only tires I have seen do that were when no one drove the car they were on.
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