ST vs LT tires.

Me Again wrote:

JJBIRISH wrote:

kedanie wrote:
Well, it looks like FastEagle is going to try and blow up this thread.

That's generally what happens whenever things start to go against his marketing of ST tires.

Keith

:h because of his marketing or because of your dislike or disagreement with what he says, he does always supply backup information to his claims, making it easy for you to dispute what he says with qualified and creditable documentation if you choose… :h
How is that his problem or a problem for the thread???

The E-mail Jim posted was loaded with recommendations and does nothing to increase the liability to the Mfg.… that e-mail, as were the ones I have posted have no legal binding information and are not official documents…
Each company has plenty of disclaimers to assure that, an example of that for a warranty claim Michelin and GY state…

No Michelin representative, employee or retailer has the authority to make or imply
any representation, promise or agreement, which in any way varies the terms of
this warranty…

Disclaimer: This warranty is in lieu of, and Goodyear hereby disclaims, any and all other warranties and representations, express or implied, including without limitation any warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, and no other warranty or representation of any kind is made by Goodyear or shall be implied by law.

I am going to only guess there is no official documentation making the claims that were made in the E-mail even if the information is essentially true…
And no I am not making the argument either way…

If manufacturers hold the line on warranty statements, why does GY pay for trailer damage. The Warranty states that consequencial damages are excluded. (Loss of time, inconvenience, loss of use of vehicle, incidental or consequential damage)

I have a friend that replaced Marathons with BFG Commercial TA. One failed this spring in Arizona. BFG/Michelin replaced the tire and paid for trailer damage, never questioning FE's scary outcomes. Discount Tire handled it in at a Mesa store. He said it was like a police report.

So you ask why FE motives are questioned? You have to go back many years and. follow his shill marketing to fully understand that he is not a normal poster like most of us. At one point a few years ago he stated that the government was going to ban LT tires on trailers. He has over many years used many tricks the market his product. He is noted for deleting posts later to cover his tracks.

I would follow jimnlin's advice way before any of FE's marketing centric dribble.

Chris

Chris

Manufactures that don’t hold the line usually have motives for not doing so that can change overnight… the fact is those words are the contract between you and the company and their fixing damage to your trailer doesn’t obligate them to mine or set precedence…

Their motives are almost always to protect themselves through a good will gesture… not always but often to head off future recalls if they can…

Not to defend FE, and I do not his motives then or now… I have disagreed with him many times before even very recently… still he generally offers something or a link to support his comments and makes it easy to dispute his claims if you have better or different information… his has offered a lot of factual information even if it is unpopular…

I have said already and will again, I have a great deal of respect for Jims knowledge and experience, but I don’t arbitrarily except one bit of information over another from anyone… they are all single sources of information I have to debate or research in my own mind therefore my opinion are mine and I own them, and popularity isn’t an issue for me…
I don’t know how much knowledge I have or have forgotten, but I to have a fair amount of trailering experience and countless hundreds of thousands of miles towing one or another of many types and sizes of trailers to use in forming my opinions…