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Subject:Re: ok, now a tire question
From:Larry Alofs
Date:Fri, 13 Jun 2014 22:20:02 -0400

My question is about the age of those tires.  I have had the same type of
thing happen.  One came apart on I-80 in Ohio at 100F with my wife driving.
 I have to admit tho that those were very old Michelins.  The tread didn't
seem to wear out so I kept running them.

Larry A.

On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com> wrote:

> with one of them having a tread separation on I95 in Florida with my poor
> wife driving.  That was at ~59K miles.
>
>   I don't like Michelins any more.   They seem to have a LOT of tread
> separations.  I have seen 5 tires on vanagons with goiters..People give me
> old 14" wheels with tires and some have been sets of Michelins...plenty of
> tread but bulges in the tires.  The "new" 97 Safari AWD came with two sets
> of Michelins...one set has two tires with separations the other set only
> has one separation...That means I have to toss out 8 expensive tires with
> good tread left and that sucks.
>

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