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Subject:New Tires at Last
From:John Rodgers
Date:Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:00:27 -0500

Looked all over - and hit the 14 inch wall everywhere - at least for
what I wanted - which was a 205/70 or 75/R14 Load Range C-D. Not to be
found. Lots of passenger type tires, but not what I needed.

Then  the General Altimax RT came up in a thread here, and I looked into
that. Tire Rack had them in a size I wanted. I had to resolve the specs
- Service Description was 98 T, and Load Range XL. After looking hard at
those numbers, and getting some info from Dennis Haynes on this tire - I
decided it was for me. Price on the Rack was $58, cost for delivery to
my zip code was $50, and local installation was $20/tire. Total was
$370. I fidgeted over that cost, then did some research locally and came
up with four Altimax RT's in the same size for total of $300 mounted,
balanced and installed.

Those tires ride so much better than the Michelin XCA's that were on there.

I am delighted!

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver