Re: OEM Tire Poll

From: Raspa 4x4 (raspa4x4@texas.net)
Date: Sun Aug 26 2001 - 21:18:06 EDT


I was thinking mine was due to off-roading, but my cousin has a 2wd and I
don't even know if it had even seen a gravel road, he has the same gashes on
two of his tires. Then Darren replied to email and said he had the same
gashes on two of his tires. Is this coincidence..??
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Levy" <andylevy@yahoo.com>
To: <dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: DML: OEM Tire Poll

> Are you sure they did it all on their own? Funny things happen to tires
> when you leave the pavement, and from your page, "While washing my truck
> after going offroading, I noticed a big gash in the sidewall of one of my
> tires"
>
> Raspa 4x4 wrote:
>
> > At less than 5k miles I found a large gash running from the rim edge of
> > the
> > sidewall out towards the tread edge of the sidewall. I had that tire
> > warrantied out and upgraded to 4 BFG ATs. This was on my '01 QC 4x4. I
> > just found out my cousin who has a '00 QC 2wd found similiar gashes on
two
> > of his front tires, he has 13k miles on his truck.
> >
> > Here it the pic of the gash on my tire:
> > http://carrola.home.texas.net/dodge/Goodyear/Goodyear.html
> >
> > I wanted to know if any of you guys out there have had this problem. I
> > knew these tires suck, but I want to know how widespread this problem
may
> > be.
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> -andy
> andylevy@yahoo.com
> Maintainer, DML FAQ - http://www.dakota-truck.net/faq/
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> '99 CC 4x4 318 auto
>



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