by gudmund » Sun Dec 17, 2017 1:24 pm
be warned out there when looking for Goodyear trailer tires -- I am still seeing a lot of the Chinese made 'trailer' Goodyear ones sitting on the tire racks in stock at the local W-M's and Camping worlds -- which tells me, there are probably still "a lot" of them out there in stock on other tire racks. Make sure you take a "real 'eye's on look" at what ever tire you are buying - look along the bead of all tires, it is written there where the tire was made. (in resent years, it has been shocking seeing the different country's I have seen where they are being made now - NAFTA - "Brand" names really mean nothing any longer being tire company's are owned by 'whomever' nowadays. Example: Bridgestone(Japan) owns Firestone - General is owned by Continental(Germany) - Cooper is owned by a company in India - etc., etc., etc..... Tire company's are like oil company's anymore - just names being put on items to make it look like there are more brands of something to sell - example Pennzoil/Quaker State Oil both being owned by Shell Oil/SOPUS - ARCO/Castrol Oil both are owned by BP-British Petroleum (an even better example of this would probably be car battery's - there are a total of 3 company's making battery's here in the states but umpteen different brands being sold out there - look at the W-M brand labeled batteries which are presently made by Exide who also makes NAPA's batteries - on and on................... also when looking at that bead on any tire you look at, look at the date it was made - it will be a 4 number oval shaped impression - first 2 ##'s are the week # of the year it was made - second 2 ##'s are the year made - example #0417, made 4th week of the year of 2017 and YES there can be a lot of 'OLD' tires sitting on tire racks out there being sold these days since the age of tires has become such a hot topic these last few years since the government has been talking about settings "age" limits on tires being sold. (the 5/10 years ordeal spoken about in the earlier e-mails here in this subject)