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decent wide whitewall sought for 1992 Cadillac Broughamd'Elegance
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decent wide whitewall sought for 1992 Cadillac Broughamd'Elegance
On Mar 17, 9:35*pm, wrote:
> http://www.petepaulsen.com/Catalogof...lTires/Wide%20... Thanks for the links. But they're all so damned EXPENSIVE! Firestone FR721s used to be about $71 apiece. What happened to them? Are they coming back? |
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decent wide whitewall sought for 1992 Cadillac Broughamd'Elegance
On Mar 17, 11:23*pm, The Derfer > wrote:
> On Mar 17, 9:35*pm, wrote: > > >http://www.petepaulsen.com/Catalogof...lTires/Wide%20... > > Thanks for the links. > But they're all so damned EXPENSIVE! > Firestone FR721s used to be about $71 apiece. > What happened to them? > Are they coming back? When's the last time you bought "specialty" tires? |
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decent wide whitewall sought for 1992 Cadillac Brougham d'Elegance
The Derfer > wrote in news:fa767fe7-928d-40bb-a925-
: > > Thanks for the links. > But they're all so damned EXPENSIVE! > Firestone FR721s used to be about $71 apiece. In what year's dollars? Continuous currency debasement by the government over the years means those dollars get a LOT smaller as time goes by, so you need more of them to buy the same thing. Do you still earn $25 per day? -- Tegger |
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decent wide whitewall sought for 1992 Cadillac Brougham d'Elegance
The Derfer wrote:
>> Tire traction will be the least of your worries in south Florida. That baby >> will rust away long before she skids... > > That's BS. > Cars do way better there than in the Northeast where they dump > butt-loads of salt on the roads. True, but not as true now that they've switched to other salts besides NaCl for road salting. > Cars in S. FL looks great 50 years > old. That's a gross exaggeration. Coastal regions, including S. Florida, put a *lot* of salt into cars and cause a lot of corrosion. Particularly pre-90s cars. |
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decent wide whitewall sought for 1992 Cadillac Broughamd'Elegance
Anyone know what the GT Maxtour tire is? A local dealer is trying to encourage me to buy this tire ($489 including all installation charges). But I've never heard of this tire. It's allegedly a Goodyear brand but info on it is scarce. |
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decent wide whitewall sought for 1992 Cadillac Broughamd'Elegance
> > Thanks for the links. > > But they're all so damned EXPENSIVE! > > Firestone FR721s used to be about $71 apiece. > > In what year's dollars? The FR721 was $71 in P235/75R15 (bigger than my car needs) and that was only 4 years ago. Maybe $90 I could understand today but not 200. What happened (trend-wise) that whitewalls are no longer in style? Years ago practically all cars has whitewall tires. Now hardly any do. Are people just lazy and they don't want to clean them? (True: those "tire shine" products do only that; they don't really CLEAN much of anything, certainly not a white wall). |
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decent wide whitewall sought for 1992 Cadillac Brougham d'Elegance
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:44:15 -0700 (PDT), The Derfer
> wrote: > >Anyone know what the GT Maxtour tire is? > >A local dealer is trying to encourage me to buy this tire >($489 including all installation charges). But I've never heard >of this tire. It's allegedly a Goodyear brand but info on it is >scarce. All tires are required to have a manufacturers code molded/stamped into the sidewall somewhere. If it's made by Goodyear it will have the Goodyear code. Google and you should be able to find a list of codes. It's unlikely you'll find much info on these oddball "off-branded" tires. Goodyear probably makes that same tire under many different names for many different independent tire stores. I have bought these sorts of off-brand tires in the past and never had any particular problem, some have been quite good. |
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