RE: Availability of Nokian Tires Two problems with Nokian right now. There are some Nokian tires still shown on their website, like the CS or CQ, and may be avaialble in other parts of the world. BUT Nokian has told their dealers that they are NLA in North America. Second problem, and the big one, is that Nokian only distributes through Tire Factory. No other source for Nokian tire at least in the Western US. Period, end of report. This puts all other retailers out of the business or at the very minimum at the mercy of the local Tire Factory stores. My previous set of Hakka CS for my Westy came through Discount Tire. No more, they can't get anything from Nokian. I found a link to Nokian Corporate some months back and sent them a concise and polite email pointing out the very limited number of Tire Factory stores and the questionable wisdom of limiting Nokian tire distribution and sales to just that one outlet. I got no response. Maybe others could do the same? |
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