The scary thing is that the front tires on my dad's Ram 2500 diesel look
like they're almost flat and they have 55 lbs in them!
>From: "Richard Atkins" <buzz@indiana.net>
>Reply-To: "Richard Atkins" <buzz@indiana.net>
>To: "'Linnhoff, Eric'" <elinnhoff@smmc.saint-lukes.org>, "'Bill
>Ozinga'" <oz@tirerack.com>, "'Autox@Autox. Team. Net'"
><autox@autox.team.net>
>Subject: RE: Firestone SUV Tires Major Failures
>Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 15:14:52 -0500
>
>Seems reasonable to me.
>They make tires too damn good, in the old days (yes I am old) if a tire had
>low tire pressure you could tell by looking at it now you can have 15# in a
>SUV tire and not be able to tell by looking at it. On top of that they last
>forever, again in the old days getting 20K miles was good so you changed
>tires ever year or so. If the tire blew it was always the tube that went,
>the tire didn't come apart.
>Can we go back to tube tires?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-autox@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-autox@autox.team.net]On
>Behalf Of Linnhoff, Eric
>Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 2:43 PM
>To: 'Bill Ozinga'; 'Autox@Autox. Team. Net'
>Subject: RE: Firestone SUV Tires Major Failures
>
>
>It's all a big Japanese conspiracy. Their little plan to take over the US
>through an invasion by their Canadian branch (betcha didn't know
>_that_)failed miserably so now they're pissed off and are going to try to
>kill us off one at a time via bad tires (apparently through their
>Bridgestone branch) and low quality bootleg CDs.
>
>I think they chose wisely by selecting the SUV drivers to knock off first.
>;^)
>
>And doesn't everybody check their tire pressure at least twice a week?
>
>Eric Linnhoff in KC
>1998 Dodge Neon R/T
>#69 DS #13 TLS
>eric10mm@qni.com
>
>"To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself."
>Francis Crawford
>
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