Finally got new tires!
08-08-2007, 05:46 PM
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All, just wanted to add here that I have just finally got rid of the second set of Bridgestones (average life of 18kMiles), and installed the Pirelli PZero Nero M-S. The improvement in road noise is night and day - it is truly unbelievable. I do not know about tire life with these yet, but I truly recomend them on noise and performance in the rain.
08-08-2007, 05:59 PM
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Says we're all giving you advice, here's mine, no make that your own:
...IOW .... sell those .... get some decent tires, the life you save may be your own. Think pet food, toothpaste, seafood, chinese car crash tests, etc, etc..... it's all crap.... but fairly decent non-Chinese tires are cheap.
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08-08-2007, 07:06 PM
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08-08-2007, 10:16 PM
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Ok, let me clarify, it's not that I have a problem with the tires being Chinese. It's not the fact that the tires are Chinese that makes me not like them. It's the fact that the Chinese have terrible quality controls.
Foreign companies manufacture in China because there's cheap labor there, they simply dumb down the process to the point where they can use people as robots. It's pretty simple. Foreign companies can keep those controls tight on Chinese labor because there's certain quality standards they have to abide by.
Lets fathom what happens when you take those quality controls away. Sure they can pass a an audit a year by some ISO standard and give the DOT a few tires that will pass, but what can happen during the rest of the year?
China is the only country where the stainless steel rusts.
Contrast this with the Japanese... well... they're generally a culture of the little details. I wonder why they've built such a reputation for quality...
Foreign companies manufacture in China because there's cheap labor there, they simply dumb down the process to the point where they can use people as robots. It's pretty simple. Foreign companies can keep those controls tight on Chinese labor because there's certain quality standards they have to abide by.
Lets fathom what happens when you take those quality controls away. Sure they can pass a an audit a year by some ISO standard and give the DOT a few tires that will pass, but what can happen during the rest of the year?
China is the only country where the stainless steel rusts.
Contrast this with the Japanese... well... they're generally a culture of the little details. I wonder why they've built such a reputation for quality...
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