brad@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Brad Spear) (04/05/84)
In article <6585@uiucdcs.UUCP> falken@uiuccsb.UUCP writes: > > I bought 4 of those nice BF Goodrich TA's about a year and a half >ago. 2 days later, the two on the passenger side blew up when I hit >a pothole in the Lake Tahoe area going approx. 30 mph. Granted, >they stick very nicely. But as a warning to prospective buyers, they >also blow up quite nicely too. But not always. In 1976 I was driving down an dim street at about 25-30. With the fact that standard headlights don't always light the road well, the pothole I didn't dodge bent the frame of the car, but my 6 month old TAs held together. However, I did blow one when I was coming back from San Francisco the next year. I'm not sure what caused it, there weren't any potholes in I- 5, and the sidewall was ripped. Thank the powers that be for recirculating ball and power steering, I had no trouble handling the front wheel blowout. Other than that, I have never had any problems with TA Belted (are radials better or worse?) tires, which I have used exclusively since the summer of 1976. I haven't even had to patch any of them. I think that sooner or later, many people will get a bad set of tires, whatever brand. The real test I suppose, is for people who live on gravel roads. From experience, I know that gravel can chew up tires real quick. My first TAs only had a month and a half of that torture. Brad Spear sdcrdcf!brad