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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Lynnmor wrote:
How's this for information?
ANY tire can get a sidewall "wart" not just "ST" or "China" tires, especially if it has been overloaded and/or underinflated.
I can remember my Dad back in the early 1970s having MORE than one tire on his F100 truck with a wart..
And YES his truck was way overloaded when he put the TC in the back of the truck..
And YES, those WERE AMERICAN MADE TIRES back then on his truck that he ended up with sidewall warts so I am not "buying it" that only China made tires can have a wart..
Tire making is part science and part "art", it is a messy, dirty hard job that no one here in the States wants to do.. That is just one of the many reasons tire companies have pulled production from the US..
