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Re: dumb question about buying tires
Sorry VOLS don't want to steal your post but just borrow it to set something straight.
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many of the off-brand tires are actually name brand tires with a different name to sell the tires cheaper.
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This is not the case. Most off brand tires ARE in fact made differently than the parent co. tire under a brand name. ie: Dayton tires make a lot of off brand and store brand tires. Carnagie from Pep Boys is just one, this tire is made on the Firestone mold with the name plate changed but the recipe for he rubber and layering is way different than Firestone tire.
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Cordovan tires are cast from the same mold as Kelly-Springfield Tires. So, in general, I was buying a set of Kelly's rather than Cordovans. They were just significantly cheaper.
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These are made to a recipe dictated by the buyer. Granted if the tread style is purchased then that tire will come off the SAME mold that the name brand tire did but the rubber make up and layering WILL be different.
Name brands do carry their own cheaper than tires made on the same mold as the original Name brand,, BUT they ARE different, there has to be some cost reduction to it, to under mine their own sales is business suicide.
By the way, Firestone, Bridgestone, and Dayton are all in bed together ,,,so to speak [img]images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
I spent 5 years making tires at the Dayton Tire plant on Council RD in Oklahoma city back in the 70's