Goodyear Marathon tires are not good tires

4X4Dodger wrote:

ol Bombero-JC wrote:

4X4Dodger wrote:
Sorry but the idea that Goodyears are bad tires is just unsupportable.

There is altogether too much superstition, Myth, misinformation and personal bias to say nothing of the wild unsupportable anecdotal accusations like the OP's about ST tires.

Hmmmmmmm.....superstition, myth, personal bias, and wild
unsupportable anecdotal accusations were put to rest - a LONG time ago!

The misinformation was ruled to be from Goodyear and their expert witnesses! (Sounds like you could have been one of them!)

The tires in question included Marathons.
(see 5th paragraph, under "The Human Toll").

SP Times: "Goodyear Kept Tire Problems Quiet"

GY rep, Chuck Sinclair: "In every case customers were at fault, etc."

Former senior trial attorney for the NHTSA Alan Kam: "That's so absurd, etc.".

For personal experiences, the following is a great long-running thread, which began in 2006 to present - from the Airstream forums....

"Goodyear Marathon Failures"

Lots of folks with *supportable* accusations - or GY wouldn't be repairing damage caused by their tires (to avoid further legal actions)...:S

Kinda like Russian Roulette, (but) - if you like 'em - run 'em!..:C


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You are a prime example of the misinformation I wrote about.

The article you cited was all about LIGHT TRUCK TIRES not ST tires. They are completely different designs.

So lets put the article in true context:

According to the NHTSA there were 11,000 (Eleven thousand) accidents in the US caused by tire failure in any given year.

There were in 2012, 254639386 vehicles registered and on the roads. YES thats 254 MILLION plus.

That accident rate is infinitesimal as any kind of meaningful statistic and what it really shows is how good our tires really are.

In 2010 Goodyear sold 37.5% of those tires in the US and they are the dominant provider of OEM tires for new cars.

So tell me please, these are the facts...how can any intelligent person claim Goodyear tires are not good?

You are taking one case and trying to conflate it to an entire company over all of the product line in complete contradiction to the facts and the real world statistics.

Thats Misinformation. Thats unsupplortable myth.

4X4, you're running up against the same biases I ran into last year when I stated on here that I got nearly 13 years on my Goodyear Marathons before changing them. No tire product is perfect. A lot depends on how they are cared for. Just weed through the disinformation.