Charlie D. wrote:
NC Hauler wrote:
The MIchelin Tire plants as well as other well known brand named plants that are now manufacturing THEIR tires in China have CHOSEN to CONTINUE to produce a QUALITY product and show their affiliation to said "named manufacturer"...,
Are you including the Goodyear Marathons? Many reports of failures of the Chinese Marathons. I have read some reports on this forum and others that Goodyear has moved the Marathon manufacturing back to the states but I haven't seen any.
Goodyear Marathons had to have been a total failure in China...I do understand they are moving the manufacture of the Marathons back to the US, (if they haven't already), but the plants didn't conform to producing a good quality product and it came back and bit GY where it hurts.....Sometimes a plan works and sometimes it doesn't. Don't know how much training GY put into the training and hiring of those that ran those plant(s) in China, but Quality in a product is something that is addressed everyday in the manufacturing process.
You are correct, I couldn't include GY Marathons made in China in that list, but again, I also didn't see the ISO/TS certifications from the China GY plant(s) that I saw, and still see with the Sailun tire Manufacturing plant in China. (It's actually something you HAVE to earn, you can't buy it or "inherit" it:).
