Looking back to the Badyears (2000 model), this was the case and answered I did receive from the Goodyear center on replacing those factory tires. Same as the Michelins on the Hemi Rams this year from Discount Tires. Even My SRT tires are not to the Pilot tire that was replaced under warranty.
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Test Engineer
Ground Systems, GCE Team
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SE&I Support Division, MCTSSA
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-----Original Message-----
From: Terrible Tom [mailto:SilverEightynine@aol.com]
Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 7:49
To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net
Subject: Re: DML: RE: Goodyear Wranglers
Stlaurent CIV Steven wrote:
> If they came with the truck, the tires are built to Chrysler specs. The Goodyear or Michelins brand are different.
>
> When I replaced the Hemi truck's front Michelins, the factor were 4-ply versus the 10-ply on the same model. What a difference between the tire with the same brand and model number.
>
> Buy your tires to match your driving habits or requirements.
>
Yup - which means that my driving habits require me to have a tire that
can give me TRACTION... not slippage. I seriously doubt that D.C
specfically has Badyear Manglers built to different specs than alllll
the other Badyear Mangler tires that are manufactured. My unscientific,
uninformed, non-insider opinion would be that they took the lowest bid
when selecting Goodyear Wrangler tires for their rolling stock.
-- Terrible Tom -- AIM & Yahoo Name: SilverEightynine http://members.aol.com/silvereightynine/
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