need tire advice
Last week I had my first blowout. Nobody's fault but mine, I was going too fast for the tires (rated at 65), I was doing just shy of 75. Normally I drive up and down the West coast but this trip I...
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FastEagle wrote:Mile High wrote:
I really feel the pain for the guys out there that have to baby those ST tires and still suffer blowouts and trailer damage, only to find out they are going to catch the blame anyway by the tire manufacturer.
Maybe you should also feel the pain for consumers reading these posts about “China Bomb blow outs” . Most never make an effort to find out what the cause was. They don’t report failures to NHTSA or turn the tires in for the manufacturer to investigate the cause of the failure. Almost all tire failures are easily diagnosed by experienced tire damage investigators.
FastEagle
Let me tell you what the NHTSA does - they take your complaint and send it to the manufacturer for comment and reply - and as a result, ANY relationship you were going to have with the manufacturer to get your product warranted just ended. You might as well just throw them in a dumpster and go buy a different brand. I don't blame anybody for not reporting anything to the NHTSA, been there, done that.
