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Subject:Re: New Tires at Last
From:Jim Felder
Date:Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:15:45 -0500

Congrats, John. For all that fretting you've earned it.

Jim

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:00 PM, John Rodgers<inua@charter.net> wrote:
> 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
>