Tires- What we all already knew!

fly-boy wrote:

proxim2020 wrote:

Old-Biscuit wrote:
I try my best to NOT buy anything made in China...tires, dog food, kids toys etc.
List is very long.

Same here.

CKNSLS wrote:
OLD Biscuit

You probably don't buy much. This is VERY HARD to do.

It's actually quite easy to avoid Chinese products in lots of cases, it just takes some effort. Effort as in flipping the package over and looking at the country of manufacture. After reading and watching several investigative reports/documentaries over the years about the manufacturing practices of the country and lack of oversight, I started paying attention to the labels. You may have to check several products on the shelf, but there's a good chance there's a few that are not made in China. If I can find my item and it's made in the US or Canada, then that's the one I want. Yeah it might cost a few bucks more, but who cares. You're supporting your country's and ally's economy. Surprisingly, quite a few Canadian products are cheaper than the Chinese versions.

I try to avoid Chinese made items, but there's some items that will almost always come from there because they're the only ones that make it. However, there's some items that I will never buy from China like food meant for human or pet consumption (especially seafood). Now buying American can be difficult at times, but it still can be done. Once again, people just need to make the effort.

I don't have any issue buying something from China so long as it is an American company doing the selling- For example- the iPhone.

Thousands of American companies have production off shore in China and other third world countries- And I don't worry at all about quality. I would have no problem buying Michelin, Toyo, BFG... tires made in China because I would know the quality was there.

I agree-but I once linked an article here on this forum about the Michelin plant in China. The article stated you couldn't tell the difference between the China plant and a plant located elsewhere in the world, except for the Chinese workers of course. After posting that article there were STILL some on these forum who said they would refuse to buy a Chinese made Michelin. Somethings on here never change, and for those against buying products made in China that's one thing that won't.