you awake from the dead?
Henry Kolesnik wrote:
Dan
What's the make and series of the tires..
Never heard of OEMs lasting that long.
tnx
Hank
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Weeks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 7:26 PM
Subject: [MBZ] Tire Longevity (was quality)
My brother, a trucker, has a 2WD explorer, short wheelbase 5-speed as
his family car. He has 114k miles on the original equipment tires.
They have about 45% of their tread left. He hates them now, and has
always hated them, saying they're like driving on hard plastic--very
little grip. He said he'd gladly replace tires every 50k miles for
some grab. He belies his words, though, as he's too cheap to throw
these out and get new ones, and will probably see the Explorer
dissolve of rust before he runs out of tread.
I think the answer is that people have gotten much more attentive to
traction ratings, tires have gotten more performance-biased, and in
general, sticky tires wear faster.
Dan
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