Thanks Ed! That's a LOT more work than i was willing to put into it.
Now i just wonder who makes tires for my 33 that will last as long as the ones on it. (Lucas, at least 30 years old).
And coker must have politicians working on their website. Talk about evading the question.....?
Yeah, Coker is owned by a conglomerate anymore (Corky sold out 6 years ago) and their stuff reflects
corporate-speak bigtime for sure.
I'm not happy with the whole "browning" of the white letters on BFG's for sure...
but I've also had some rotten damn luck with Cooper quality over the years also.
Ed story time:
The last set of Coopers I bought were new replacements for our '04 Ram, which were bought to replace
those awful Goodyear Wrangler HP's it came with. This was around 10 years ago...
I had arranged for a big regional tire chain store near her work to install them, then she'd
drive home with the new tires...except on that particular cold, dark rainy night, on a country
two-lane highway, the sidewall blew out on one of them without warning.
We're talking less than 15 miles driven at that point; no evidence could be found of any punctures
or other explanation for the blowout, either by the police or myself.
The tire damn near killed her...and they were NOT cheap tires, by any stretch.
Needless to say, I wasn't happy - and when both Cooper AND the reseller gave me static about
replacement under warranty (they're lucky we weren't going after them for a LOT more than that),
well...the war was on.
End result - Ed lawyered up, one of the VERY few times I ever have.
I had me some tasty tire dealer *** over that one ($$$) and those Coopers were gone before they
even had a chance to break in.
Since I'd had issues with other Coopers in prior years (yep, the old Cobras), that was the last straw
for me with that brand. I don't care if they make the greatest tire known to man, I won't own it.
That's not how you do business, simply put.
The Ram has been on freakin' HIGH dollar Michelins ever since - and good Lord, those things are
not only the best driving, safest tires made - but they last forever, too.
Everything I've owned since (except the GTX, since they don't make tires in those sizes) has been
on Michelins, damn the price.
I'm "tired" of taking chances with cheaper stuff and I'll never risk my wife's life with anything else.