In my mind, the tire industry is much like the auto, and oil industry. They must sell tires to stay rich. There is no doubt tire technology is being suppresed. Tires can be produced that will, last much longer, be safer, and have less rolling resistance. It's just not profitable. Many years ago NASCAR cup cars had two tires to choose, Goodyear, and Hoosier, Geoff Bodine ran Hoosier and actually finished races in the top 10 on 1 set of tires, and then all of a sudden Goodyear had the exclusive contract, and Hoosier was out. Tires are still a 10 times better than they where 30 years ago, and a 100 times better than the early days of Henry Ford, and Harvey Firestone.

 

Since my wife and I now own a Yukon, does that mean I no longer pull any maintenance with my truck , or just the Denali?

 

Come up to Ft. McMurray and work on your truck in -55c weather and see how well that works for ya. The tranny leak is getting fixed in spring. I didn't mean to say all SUV owners are bad at maintenance, just 99.9%

 

Oh boy, c'mon now guys. Wheres my waders?

Where exactly did that percentile figure come from? Uranus? Sure, tire life is greatly effected by tire maintenance. But how can anyone honesty think that someone who drives a SUV does not pull maintnenance... well, 99.9% of them anyway?

I don't like being nit-picky by any means, but that is just ridiculous.

 

[quote=olyelr;1963830]Oh boy, c'mon now guys. Wheres my waders?

Where exactly did that percentile figure come from? Uranus? quote]


lol

 

i think the maintenance free theory comes from so many women driving them that don't even know how to (or care to learn) check the tire pressure.

 

I agree, a large percentage of s.u.v. owners are soccer moms, old women, or preppy girls (near me at least) and they wouldnt know how to answer if you asked if their vehicles was up on its maintanence.

 

Thats all I was trying to say, sorry if it rubbed some of you guys the wrong way it wasn't what I was meaning to say. And the 99.9% was from mars actually.

 

Im finally getting around to watching that video, that is actually damn scary.


great find though

 

Its no big deal man, I just thought your figure seamed a little far fetched...

I understand your guys thinking and all, but I wouldn't relate it with only SUV's. Its like that with all kinds of vehicles... and it surely isn't only the female's cars either.





I went out and checked the dates on my new tires. All of them were made between the 37th and the 43rd week in 2009. Im good to go for a while.