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   From: jclarkeusenet@cox.net   
      
   In article , gossg@gossg.org says...   
   >   
   > "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?"   
      
      
   Polyglas was older than that--they were bias-ply with a fiberglass belt,   
   and obviously that didn't stick together very well either.   
      
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