Chinese tire question

Ralph Cramden wrote:

SidecarFlip wrote:
I have Chinese tires on my Farm Goose Neck that I overload all the time and I've never had an issue. Keep them inflated properly and abuse them all the time.

Exactly.........we ran overloaded equipment trailers loaded down with concrete finishing equipment for years and probably a million plus miles on whatever tires the local guy had on the shelf when we needed them. Usually hecho in chino. I can not remember one failure over the years that could not be attributed to some type of road hazard, nail or screw, or one of my exemplary employees going airborne over a curb or something etc. Well I do remember one failure we did not know what caused it...just so happened to be a US made Goodyear Marathon.

I challenge anyone to post up NHTSA recalls on Chinese made ST tires that equal out to more than 1/1000th of 1% of total tires imported. I won't be holding my breath.

Because you don't believe doesn't make it not so. It just means you don't believe it even if it's true. Circa 2010 I think China ST tires were not very good for large heavy 5th wheels. There were a rash of reports of tire failures, many more than you hear about now. Some of the skeptical posters were simply not on the forum at that time and don't realize the number of posts having to do with tire failures. The problem has abated as the quality of tires now available has improved very much.

I had two tires fail and at the time talked to other people that had similar experiences. I rarely talk to anyone now that has tire issues like the numbers of 6-8 years ago.