Re: Cooper Tires!!! Part Two!

Posted by T_Bone on November 04, 2005 at 12:41:35 from (4.240.90.128):

In Reply to: Cooper Tires!!! Huge Problems!!! posted by T_Bone on November 03, 2005 at 22:16:03:

Cooper Tires part two,

Well I didn't expect this to generate all the comments it has.

I too don't trust the news media too far, one being the exploding gas tank that they couldn't get to explode so they exploded it on purpous, and the general common sense that's lacking of the what they call news into today's world.

For the ones that didn't pick-up on the most important info I wanted to convey that this appears to be a tire problem in the hot weather in the Southern States, AZ, TX, S.Cal, NM, OK, FL from what I remember the map showing. Any body that's lived in one of these areas, knows that the heat and UV's can really damage a tire and is a concern to us more the South than in the Northern States just like frost heave and froozen pipes would not be a big deal in the South. They stated Cooper declined comment as the news media was not fare in there assements. That I agree with.

The written article was not very well presented like the TV coverage. The news media expert was guy that gave expert testiomony in the court cases of why Cooper had a blowout problems with there tires. Alot of questions he refused to answer as he stated the court would not let him comment. He did point out that any tire that did not have this rubber wedge that ran down the center of the tread would surely have a blowout with excessive heat build up.

I too have ran a tire low in tread depth and had a blowout and didn't have a problem one controlling my vehicle to a stop and it sure didn't flip my truck over like the accidents showed on the TV news. Makes me wonder just how many roll overs were severe driver error to a simple problem.

I've also went thru the 50's and 60's with Firebomb problems that my parents had and will never run a Fireblooper on any of my rigs. If you research Firekabooms track record, it's just about every 10yrs that they had the continious blowout problems.

I ran a set of Coopers in the 70's and 80's that I got great service from, 60k miles (4wd) and still looked good, but due to "my" abuse seperated the tread inbetween the ribs. Had I'd been able to find a Cooper dealer, I would have used them thru to today.

In any event I'm going to change my Cooper steer axle tires and since I have a 4wd, that requires a 6 tire replacement on my dualley. For $1400 it's just not worth the risk to me. I'll keep the tries on my trailer and use the take off tires for trailer replacement tires as the risk of accident or vehicle damage from a blowout is very low on my trailer duals.

T_Bone

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