G. P. Snorklewacker wrote:Wally wrote: I wanted to give him a South African Necklace...Is that like a pearl necklace?
Google south African necklace killing.
If you're to squeamish to watch, its basically put a tire around someone's neck then light it on fire. It's a form of public execution.
你不喜歡你的新輪胎。中國輪胎一樣糟糕的其他任何便宜的輪胎。你得到你所支付的。
Flight Service wrote: 你不喜歡你的新輪胎。中國輪胎一樣糟糕的其他任何便宜的輪胎。你得到你所支付的。
I think his point was that he didn't pay for the tires, the dealer put them on(assuming before purchase?).
In reply to flatlander937:
Yes.
I need new tires for my vehicle. I was going to get them like everyone else from China but I hate the Chinese since they took (actually we gave them) all of our manufacturing jobs. So then I thought I'd buy Michelins because I hate the french a little less. But I see Michelins are now made in China too. Geez.
Flight Service wrote: 你不喜歡你的新輪胎。中國輪胎一樣糟糕的其他任何便宜的輪胎。你得到你所支付的。
the translation doesn't make much sense 
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&u=http://www.yicai.com/news/2015/05/4625285.html&prev=search
plance1 wrote: I need new tires for my vehicle. I was going to get them like everyone else from China but I hate the Chinese since they took (actually we gave them) all of our manufacturing jobs. So then I thought I'd buy Michelins because I hate the french a little less. But I see Michelins are now made in China too. Geez.
Interesting. The pilot A/S3's I recently put on the GTI are made in the USA. Guess it depends on the model.
Three of the four Maxxis tires I have on the 5 were made in Thailand. The remainder was made in China. Does that qualify me for this convo?
G_Body_Man wrote: My friend has Sailuns on his X5. They're pretty good all-season tires. Same with Westlakes. We have cheapo Douglas tires on our Echo, and they perform decently. They're good for daily drivers, not so much for performance driving.
Mmmmmmm, Douglas tires. I love me some Xtra-Trac IIs. Cheap, available in oddball sizes, wear like a rock, balance nice and surprisingly good in the snow.
THere's a huge Kumho plant opening about 15 miles from my house in middle georgia, and some Pirellis are made outside Rome...Georgia, not Italy.
Which may explain why the Pirellis on my Mustang sucked so badly...
I put a set of Goodrides on my 5th wheel RV. They are finishing up their 2nd full summer. No troubles, they're holding up great. A really nice beefy trailer tire actually.
iadr wrote: I've posted here of when the dealership I worked at bought GT Radial IcePro and BF Goodrich Winter Slalom KSI's. Virtually every BFG had out of roundness, to about .024", just enough to create shimmy's. Perhaps one in 30 of the GT's had that much, and the others had virtually none.
That is really useful information. My mom needs tires. She is retired and drives <3500 mi/yr, so they will almost certainly require replacement due to dry rot before the tread is even 2/3rds gone. Since GT Radial sponsored the Mitty, I've been wondering if they are a cut above most Chinese tires. Maybe I'll take a chance on them.
Remember the immortal words of Billy Joel: Only the good Dae Yung.
Car and Driver did a tire test a while back and included a "budget" Chinese tire...
"Consistently finishing last in all of the performance categories, the Ling Longs’ dry autocross performance was so far behind the other tires’ that we had to round its score up to zero to keep it from being negative. Geswein used the words “hard” and “skatey” to describe the Ling Longs’ feel. Their best showing was on the skidpad, where an 0.88-g effort tied the Yokohamas’ for last. Things got worse in the wet, where slip-and-slide behavior required a conservative effort to stay between the cones. The Ling Longs were a full five seconds off the autocross pace and needed 22 more feet—1.5 3-series car-lengths—to stop from 50 mph than did the best Hankooks."
wbjones wrote:Flight Service wrote: 你不喜歡你的新輪胎。中國輪胎一樣糟糕的其他任何便宜的輪胎。你得到你所支付的。the translation doesn't make much sense
So the translator failed at translating it's own translation? 
I had BCT's (which stands for "beijing China Tire" haha)on my crown vic up until I sold it and they never gave me a problem, a little slick in the rain but not to bad for <$70 a piece
In reply to SyntheticBlinkerFluid:
Find out what your hub bore is.......taurus wheels are cheap/plentiful and I already offered freebies(just have to pick up).....they just have a relatively small hub bore.
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