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  1. 26th June 2007, 09:13 AM #1
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    beware of dodgy tyres

    This popped up from autoblog, for your info.

    Dunno if these rubbery rubbers are getting to Aussie....but...check it out.

    http://www.autoblog.com/2007/06/25/a...s-now-failing/

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  2. 26th June 2007, 09:44 AM #2
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    Yeah, someone's selling Chinese 4wd tyres up here. They often wind up being used on Troopies, which don't need the help rolling over.

    I never even considered buying them . . . because they are from CHINA!!!

    It would seem obvious. Geez.
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  3. 26th June 2007, 10:15 AM #3
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    Nor would I Davo, but someone might put them on as a cheap fix.

    But, I put on a couple of tyres on the front of the X1/9 some years ago, recommended by Allan Moffat.
    I don't think Allan ever drove on them, or he wouldn't have endorsed that brand.
    Later I discovered they came from Indonesia... caveat emptor....

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  4. 26th June 2007, 10:19 AM #4
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    i only buy real tyres

    my life and that of my family rely on them..........
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  5. 26th June 2007, 12:04 PM #5
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    About twenty years ago I was a member of a delegation to Burma (now Myanmar) which was then a very closed society, and manufactured almost everything themselves. (Including a Mazda four wheel drive i have never seen elsewhere- looked a bit like a Landrover but with the front of the mudguard sloping forward from about halfway down, but the distinctive feature being the front springs going over the axle and very little spring travel.)
    We had travelled in one of these Mazdas and a Landrover Series 3 station wagon north to Pyinmana in three days, stopping to look at a number of points. On the day we left to do the trip back in one day, the driver stopped at a garage (looked more like a blacksmith's shop) to pump up the tyres to a much higher pressure. As he explained "These tyres are made in Burma, and are not very good - without the extra pressure they won't last to Rangoon!"

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  6. 26th June 2007, 12:21 PM #6
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    It looks like a couple of Coopers I've seen.

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  7. 26th June 2007, 07:46 PM #7
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    Quote Originally Posted by Michael2 View Post
    It looks like a couple of Coopers I've seen.





    I think, to be fair, if you read the full thread at the link you provided , it seems that old mate had a bit more going on than what he first let on in his bleat:

    1. There seems to be evidence that the tyres were underinflated.
    2. The second tyre had two plugs in it.

    Throw in the temp and the possibility that the driver might not have been the 110kmh saint that he claims (after all, who admits to speeding when you are trying for an insurnace claim??). I am not convinced.

    I have had Cooper ST's on the car for 60K now - done about 30K of outback laden touring on them - no hassles. I will buy them again

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