

| Subject: | Re: TIRES |
| From: | pickle vanagon |
| Date: | Wed, 11 Jul 2012 08:28:14 -0400 |
I know this isn't what you're looking for, but tiresbyweb.com seems to have pretty much the whole line. I just emailed a tire place close by (near New York) and checked if they could get me Nokian WR G2 in 215/60/16 XL and they can, 160 each mounted and balanced, which is not far off the tiresbyweb price. Regarding others' comments on the tires that are still available in 14 inches. I have two criteria for tires to run year round for us: 1) the manufacturer should intend the tires to be run year round 2) they should have the severe service alpine symbol. I failed to find any 14 inch tires satisfying these two constraints. Even if I interpreted 1) to just mean "not studdable" I think there are no options. On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 11:56 PM, Loren Busch <starwagen@gmail.com> wrote: > RE: Availability of Nokian Tires > Two problems with Nokian right now. There are some Nokian tires still > shown on their website, like the CS or CQ, and may be avaialble in other > parts of the world. BUT Nokian has told their dealers that they are NLA in > North America. Second problem, and the big one, is that Nokian only > distributes through Tire Factory. No other source for Nokian tire at least > in the Western US. Period, end of report. This puts all other retailers > out of the business or at the very minimum at the mercy of the local Tire > Factory stores. My previous set of Hakka CS for my Westy came through > Discount Tire. No more, they can't get anything from Nokian. I found a > link to Nokian Corporate some months back and sent them a concise and > polite email pointing out the very limited number of Tire Factory stores > and the questionable wisdom of limiting Nokian tire distribution and sales > to just that one outlet. I got no response. Maybe others could do the > same? >
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