Freestar or Goodyear Marathon?
I am wondering if we upgraded our Freestar tires that came on our trailer with a set of Marathon's, would we be getting much better quality? Google doesn't come back with much info. on Freestar. But...
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myredracer wrote:
Made in China stuff? Touchy subject and discussion should probably go into the same sub-forum as politics, firearms and abortion. Can't resist - I have to wonder what letting China do so much manufacturing has done to the economy. Stuff is cheaper but we all enable them by buying it. At least they aren't building our RVs there.
Yet. It's starting ... http://www.rvbusiness.com/tag/rv-industry-in-china/
Just came back from Shanghai. We are not "letting" China do anything. No one lets China do anything it does not itself want to do. Our free market consumer society demands ensure manufacturing goes to China (or wherever else that is cheap) and no matter what people say on boards such as this, it will continue well into the foreseeable future. China is developing so fast that quality cannot keep up, but that does not matter in the big picture. Recall how the Japanese were back in the day. Besides China has the money now and money talks.
Back on topic - as someone astutely pointed out above, the "evidence" that can be gleaned on the Internet regarding Chinese made tires (a) must be taken with a grain of salt and (b) the percentage of failures is small when compared with the number of tires sold. I am not saying they are the best tires out here but I am sure they are no worse than any other tires of this class for this application.
