SoundGuy wrote:
Spade Cooley wrote:
Correct! Once the retailer owns the product he/she will attempt to market it.
But I have control of my pocket book and have the option of buying a better product or shop for a better price. We are in charge as consumers. If Walmart wants to take the chance of a civil suit knowing they are selling a defective product, that's their business. If I owned the company I would request Goodyear exchange the product for a safer product or loose business at our stores. Goodyear and Walmart are in bed together and depend on each other.
I'm sure Walmart is shaking in it's boots. :R
To quote your own words - "But I have control of my pocket book and have the option of buying a better product or shop for a better price. We are in charge as consumers."
Clearly you weren't when buying these Marathons. ;)
The Marathon is no more "defective" than any of the hundreds of other brands of trailer tires for sale around the world and as already pointed out in this thread others haven't had any issues at all with their own Marathons. :S
Until you have some empirical experience to back that up, I'd leave that one alone. Yes light duty trailer tires are more prone to abuse and blowouts than car tires in general, but GY discontinued them for a reason. They suck!
And there's about 1000mastercraft boat owners that would agree. As well as others. On the MC site the experience is more typical to mine and about 10:1 ratio of suck to not suck!
Sorry, don't buy them unless you like changing tires!
I was out of spare tires one night and sawed the flap of tread off one, one night. Tire held air but was horsewhippin my nice polished gelcoat fender. Limped home on a tire carcass....
