[71GP76TA]

Originally Posted by Deadhead

FWIW, I had GoodYear Wrangler do exactly the same thing as the Firestones on a Jeep Cherokee. The tire separated under totally normal driving conditions, and you could see that it had been recapped yet sold as a new tire. There was a whitewall under the RWL sidewall. "They are all like that" was the response. They had been bought at Sears, who tried to charge me for a new tire until I told them I wanted my old tire back so I could take it to my product liability lawyer I used to work for. We settled on them just giving me the vehicle and not charging instead of giving me the old tire.

They are all like that. If you "curb" a RWL tire enough times.. it turns into a whitewall.

BTW - I worked at various tire stores for about 15 years

[muscle_collector]

a few years ago I had a guy in the tire distribution business tell me that after firestones ordeal with the explorers tire blowing deal that their quality control is over the top. I bought a set of transforce at tires for one of my excursions and I put around 80k on them and only replaced them because of the age of them I got worried. they still had at least a 1/4 inch of tread left on them.

[rexs73gto]

The problem with the firestone tires started long before that, my mom had bought a 72 Impala & it had those exploding firestone 500's that had all 4 replaced in the 1st 1000 miles. Then 3 of those got replaced in the next 500 miles. My dad took the car back in for the last set & made sure they put on a different brand of tire which were goodyear that lasted about 40k then. But I have to ad that the only reason they replaced them was were are related to the dealer. Otherwise they were just kept on putting on more of those junk tire by order of chevrolet.

[Deadhead]

Originally Posted by 71GP76TA

They are all like that. If you "curb" a RWL tire enough times.. it turns into a whitewall.

BTW - I worked at various tire stores for about 15 years

Not when the rubber peels back with he RWL and there is a whitewall UNDER the RWL. It was a recapped tire for sure.

[71GP76TA]

Originally Posted by Deadhead

Not when the rubber peels back with he RWL and there is a whitewall UNDER the RWL. It was a recapped tire for sure.

When a tire is recapped... Its only the tread area...not the sidewall....or not that high up on the sidewall.

[Alvin]