XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: gossg@gossg.org   
      
   "J. Clarke"  wrote:   
   >pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu says...   
      
   >> I once had a tread separation on a highway while driving a car --   
   >> *bang*, looked in the rear view mirror to see my fender skirt flying   
   >> away.  Got to the side; found the tread wrapped around my rear axle.   
   >> The tire actually kept air for several hours after that; it didn't go   
   >> down until the car was being unloaded from the flatbed at the tire   
   >> store.   
   >   
   >I threw the tread on two nearly-new Goodyear Polyglas a couple of miles   
   >from home once.  I drove on home on the carcass.  The next day we threw   
   >all four wheels in the back of the pickup, drove down to the Goodyear   
   >dealer and raised holy Hell until he gave us our money back on the   
   >pieces of shit, and then bit the bullet and got Michelins.   
   >   
   >I really don't understand why everybody thought Polyglas were so great.   
      
   Back in the early days of steel radials, American manufacturers were   
   having trouble getting the rubber and steel to stick together.  (I'd   
   owned Belgian steel radials most of a decade earlier, but ... shrug.)   
      
   A particular tire, the "721" brand was the focus of a major fiasco,   
   perhaps with deaths.  A friend of mine was showing me his new Jeep.  I   
   mentioned that the brand of tires was a disaster, so we looked closer.   
   I saw bubbles on two of the four tires on his new car.   
      
   I still had trouble convincing him to get his car towed to the dealer   
   and the tires replaced.  "The car is new.  How can there be a problem   
   with the tires?" "Look THERE!  BUBBBLES!"  "So?"   
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