Really paints a pretty dismal picture of FLATS don't it? Whole lot of
'Chicken Little' misinformation being bandied about here (which I will be
the first to admit I may have promulgated a portion).
I have some big time connections with a number of tire manufacturers. I use
a lot of their product in high performance applications (whereas any Westy,
save the Snychros, is in diametric opposition to such a thing).
What I'm gonna do is contact them individually and get their skinny on the
whole thing, then do a little report here for y'all.  Promise that it won't
be too technical nor full of charts and the like- just handling some of the
more inflamatory, doomsday issues (hopefully once and for all).
I hate to think anybody is out there sweating bullets every time they drive
their bus because somebody else (sic; albeit uninformed) says the whole
sidewall is going to shred the next time they make a hard turn.

And gimme a break before anybody does the flame thing- it'll take a couple
days to hook up with them (different parts of the World). Just leave it lay
for the time being- or, as they say on the tube, please standby.