Nylon tires thumped. Don't know about rayon. Some newer tires have rayon, however. I don't know why. My brother tells me that radial cords smoothed out the thumping even more than the move from nylon, but I do know that nylon thumped. DMc ---- Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@q.com> wrote: > My recollection is that nylon cords were introduced to get RID of the > thumping; it was rayon cords that had > "memory issues". OTOH, I could be wrong - it's been many years ago. > > Karl Wolz > | > |From the link you provided, I see that the tire includes nylon cords. I > |did not know that any modern tire included nylon in the construction. > |Perhaps because Hankook markets them as a "summer tire," they find nylon to > |be satisfactory. Have you noticed the thumping phenomenon I mentioned? Do > |you guys drive them year-round? I would assume so. > | > -- David McNeely |
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