Check these Goodyears!!
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Check these Goodyears!!
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I returned from Carlisle, PA in October using my F-350 with a slide-in camper pulling a 20 foot Interstate cargo trailer. On the way back to NY my brother and I noticed that the rig was riding a little choppy. We stopped a few times and looked things over and all seemed OK. On our last stop into a rest area he looked in the right side mirror and thought the back tire looked a little wobbly. This time we noticed a huge lump rising from the tread on the Wrangler AT/S. These tires had less than 20k on them and had great tread, having been rotated probably 3 times. We changed out the spare and rode home, very smoothly. When we got back we took this tire and another Goodyear, a Wrangler HT that was on our cube van with an identical problem to a Goodyear dealer and they told us "Have a nice day". They said they were tires made in 2001 and could do nothing for us. We bought the tires in '03 so I guess it was our fault that they were on the shelf for 2 years somewhere.But, I've never heard of a 'time' warranty on tires, only mileage. On the HT's we blew out an inside dual on another road trip so by the time we saw the tire it was in shreds. The second time we caught it before it blew and it had the same large lump in the tread area. Luckily, it's a dually but my p/u is SRW. I can only imagine what we dodged by getting this tire off in time, carrying a camper on the truck! I've been shopping lately for tires for another F-350 we have and I can assure you, I'm not even looking at ANY Goodyears. I put them on par with the China crap that's out there now, except that they're twice the price. I'm trying to enclose some pics with this but if they don't show up, mail me and I'll send them directly to your inbox. They're scary. If you run AT/S's and use your truck for hauling, be careful. Before anybody comes up with a million reasons why I caused this let me say that the tires are checked at 80 psi before any trip, rotated regularly and the trucks are garaged and babied. PS, I found I can't do attachments so mail me for pics.
I returned from Carlisle, PA in October using my F-350 with a slide-in camper pulling a 20 foot Interstate cargo trailer. On the way back to NY my brother and I noticed that the rig was riding a little choppy. We stopped a few times and looked things over and all seemed OK. On our last stop into a rest area he looked in the right side mirror and thought the back tire looked a little wobbly. This time we noticed a huge lump rising from the tread on the Wrangler AT/S. These tires had less than 20k on them and had great tread, having been rotated probably 3 times. We changed out the spare and rode home, very smoothly. When we got back we took this tire and another Goodyear, a Wrangler HT that was on our cube van with an identical problem to a Goodyear dealer and they told us "Have a nice day". They said they were tires made in 2001 and could do nothing for us. We bought the tires in '03 so I guess it was our fault that they were on the shelf for 2 years somewhere.But, I've never heard of a 'time' warranty on tires, only mileage. On the HT's we blew out an inside dual on another road trip so by the time we saw the tire it was in shreds. The second time we caught it before it blew and it had the same large lump in the tread area. Luckily, it's a dually but my p/u is SRW. I can only imagine what we dodged by getting this tire off in time, carrying a camper on the truck! I've been shopping lately for tires for another F-350 we have and I can assure you, I'm not even looking at ANY Goodyears. I put them on par with the China crap that's out there now, except that they're twice the price. I'm trying to enclose some pics with this but if they don't show up, mail me and I'll send them directly to your inbox. They're scary. If you run AT/S's and use your truck for hauling, be careful. Before anybody comes up with a million reasons why I caused this let me say that the tires are checked at 80 psi before any trip, rotated regularly and the trucks are garaged and babied. PS, I found I can't do attachments so mail me for pics.
