Must say I thought the same - maybe a little bit of truth, but mostly
overblown. Then I saw my friend's truck. It was a Ford Ranger extended
cab w/ Wilderness AT's. Three of the four were affected by the recall.
All three had a visiable 'crack' about 3/4" from the top of the tread
around the whole tire - both inside and out. The fourth tire (with a
'good' date-code) was fine. He got them replaced last week. Nothing
but Cooper's for my vehicles!
-Scott
RBHouston@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 10/08/2000 9:29:32 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
> sfooshee@home.com writes:
>
> > Since we're off the subject here, I'm curious if anyone knows any specifics
> > about this ATX tire thing. Are these tires giving out under normal driving
> > or
> > are they blowing because they're underinflated and being run above their
> > speed
> > rating and designed operating temperature?
>
> Depends on who you ask. When you ask a Ford guy...it's the dang tires made
> by the union jerks at Firestone, and when I was down at the Firestone shop
> trading for Bridgestones, it was Fords fault for advising 26PSI instead of
> 30PSI...and did you know the Explorers fuel tank is all on one side and that
> extra weight caused the tires to fail..and all those people were going over
> 90 miles an hour...
>
> Bit of reaching on both sides I suspect. Were a bit spoiled by new tire
> technology I think. I remember when getting 20K miles on a set of tires was
> quite acceptable and everyone knew where the jack and lug wrench was because
> it was not "if " you where going to fix a flat, but when.
>
> It seems probable that Firestone did have some quality control problems, and
> Ford may be wrong on the inflation numbers, but 30PSI sounds high to us old
> guys. It also seems improbable that there would be zero defect in any
> manufactured product anywhere and one wonders if these problems are perhaps
> inflated by the media just a bit? Gotta sell them papers and sound bytes.
>
> RH...just an OF's opinion...but I do like the looks of the new Bridgestones
> and the ol PU seems to like 'em too. Has a bit more pep!
--
Scott Kilborn
Gilman, IA
scottk@pcpartner.net
'75 Honda CB750K '75 Honda CB750F '72 Honda CB350K '66 MG Midget
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