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To: stan_hughes who wrote (2361)	11/27/2005 4:38:03 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 78411

I thot it was Firestone who built those mine tires. They started it. Not that Firestone is a raving good retail tire for ordinary cars. European tires are much superior in wear and driving characteristics, but when it comes to big mine truck tires, Firestone was the pioneer. I would not put a set of Goodyears on my car or truck if you held a gun to my head. Continental, Semperit, Pirelli, Michelin, Toyo, but never never, never Goodyear. Wear is perhaps 5 times better with the European tire. Cornering is the difference between life and death. Fisk is a better tire by far than Goodyear. And I have driven 2 million miles knowing the rubber I had on the road. I drove a set of Pirellis for 100,000 miles with hardly discernable wear. That would have been at least 3 sets of Goodyears, and 15,000 miles of that would have been dangerous. EC<:-}