[Pontiac]

I’ve been meaning to get a set of Cooper tires for some years now.

I always got Goodyear tires because they were headquartered in Akron, Ohio.

Cooper is headquartered in Findlay, Ohio. That will do just fine.

[steve86]

I’m very happy with my Nokian A/S performance tires, Finland.

[Spktyr]

Check reviews carefully. Cooper’s had a bunch of recalls in recent years and their product quality varies wildly by model.

[Viking2002]

Yeah, I remember when Goodyear consolidated a lot of it's assets and pulled them back to Akron. I grew up about a mile (as the crow flies) from a Kelly Springfield tire plant that first started building tires in 1921. Oh, the stench. Betwen that and the paper mill several miles further up the Potomac, dumping their wastewater into the river, you haven't lived until you smelled that witch's brew of paper chemicals and cooking rubber......anyway, I'll bet at least half of the retail tire inventory in our town were KS tires, simply because of the relation to the plant. And people bought them, they were plentiful and cheap. It probably employed a quarter of the area for decades. Then that 'greenmail' fiasco occurred back in the mid-80's, and Goodyear was forced to restructure to buy back all it's outstanding stock. The former president of the tire plant told my late dad at the time, he was paying the employees there an average of $15 an hour in wages (in early 1980's dollars) but only getting $10 an hour worth of productivity out of them. It was an open joke that guys would spend a career sitting in a tool crib, signing out wrenches, then collect a union pension after 20 or 25 years, still young enough to go finagle a municipal or rail job. It was like the rail yard up there (huge in it's heyday, as well), you had to know someone (or wait for someone to die to open a job) to get hired. So, Goodyear had to trim the fat to grab that outstanding stock, and that plant was a prime target. Word had it that after the decision came down, the plant suddenly topped new productivity records from the workers fighting to keep it open, but too late. They shuttered the plant the following year, turned the land back over to the city, and the Goodyear parent company finally moved the local admin offices back to Akron several years ago. 'Get woke, go broke' ain't the only way of committing suicide. Idleness and greed can kill ya just as quick.

[flatpickingflyer]

Sadly this is the trend for most US Corporations these days. My company constantly boards us with with the inclusion and diversity propaganda.

BTW, don’t think that just because Goodyear is an American company that the tires are actually made here.

https://www.cleveland.com/open/2019/07/democrats-say-goodyear-plant-in-mexico-shows-need-for-labor-reforms-in-new-trade-deal.html