The China-Bomb debate Put to rest
Almost every week or more a thread appears with someone with a tire question. And just as predictably the China Bomb experts come out and start decrying all Chinese made tires. Then usually they re...
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myredracer wrote:
You will never, ever know how often or by how much someone's ST tires ran over 65 mph, or how often they were under-inflated, or how often they hit potholes or speed bumps at speed, how often they turned 90 degree corners on pavement, or how often they ran on road shoulders, etc. How close were they to their max. load capacity rating? Internal damage from heat due to under-inflation and/or excess speed is cumulative and it can be many miles later that you have a failure and thus you can't relate the failure to what you recently did. If you bought a used TT, you can't possibly know how the tires were treated.
If you live on the west coast, you will never know how much the delivery guy drove over 65 mph or how many potholes or big cracks in concrete slab highways he hit. Your brand new TT can have over 2K miles on used tires in unknown condition. We followed a delivery guy last year in Ca. and saw how he treated the TT tires.
This is what amazes me about the ST tire proponents.
They are so accepting of low quality that they use all of these excuses for them.
Any ST tire failure had to be caused by abuse like is stated above.
I don't think that any of that is "abuse". It is a normal part of a tires life.
I refuse to rub baby oil on my TT tires, have a rabbi bless them and drive like an old man who forgot his glasses to make them live.
I went to LT tires in 2006, and haven't needed since to make any excuses for my TT tires.
THERE ARE better tires out there for those that want them.
