While a local tire shop may try to woo your business by making a promise, no tire manufacturer will warranty tires run flat unless they are offering a road hazard warranty. Tires don't suddenly go flat unless they fail. I your case the tire was probably loosing air for some time until it became a problem. Tire damage from running flat is obvious. As for tire manufacturers honoring defect warranties, through the Goodyear dealers, their willingness to replace tires under warranty is simply the best. I have had Goodyear tires replaced under warranty for ride disturbances, (balance, out of round), ozone cracking, sidewall failures, etc. The real dealers can make decisions or call in the claim on the spot. Most every other manufacturer makes you get a rep to do an inspection or some how return the tire to them. I am also curious what Goodyear tire you had on the Adventurewagon. Was it an appropriate application? As for a Syncro rotation, When I have to get a new tire, I get two, and place one front and one opposite rear. This keeps the total axle rpms matched. With almost 50K miles on a set of tires on FUN BUS, Goodyear replaced two of them under warranty due to the belts shifting. These are the Wrangler HP, 215-65/16's. Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of miguel pacheco Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2008 7:53 AM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: Rear flat at freeway speed... I had a rear left tire go flat at 65mph on my 90 Syncro AW. I got off the highway and onto the grass pretty quick, but while still mobile, the van was very steady. My lesson (and there always seems to be one) this time was to not deal with a tire shop that doesn't honor the warranty due to a 'run flat.' The Good Year shop guy told me they wouldn't honor it since I obviously ran it while flat. I told him I was off the highway and onto the grass very quickly, but no go. These tires were at 30% wear, at this time, and, as you may imagine, this caused me a problem with my 5 tire rotation. Might go to a 6 tire rotation next time. Later, I approached the local 'can do anything' tire guy and he said that since there is no way all drivers can get off the road fast enough to not ruin a tire, when flat, he never uses the 'run flat' rule to void a warranty. He has my business when I purchase my next set. Gracias, Miguel |
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