T_Bone
Arizona
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Hi All,
Well this should ruin someones day.
ABC15News , local TV news for Phoenix, did a story to night on how Cooper Tires have been failing in any State that has hot weather. It seams Cooper left out a rubber wedge that will cause the tread to come off, mostly during hot weather.
Cooper is the only tire mfg that does not have this rubber wedge that cost penny's to include in the manufacturing process and has known this to cause 218 deaths and 300 serious accidents since 1996 but refuses to include the wedge.
The news stated Cooper has been having the court files sealed upon settlement to prevent the news meadia from finding out the results.
You might wanna check your off brand tire names for the Cooper Tire mfg codes as they make a huge number of tires for different companys. You can get the codes from the link above.
I now have 14 Cooper tires mounted
All I can say is some tire shop in gonna fall in love with my check book this next week 
T_Bone
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wildnfree
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My GN trailer came with Cooper tires. I had one tread separation and one blowout and a third developed a knot before I got them changed out. No more Coopers for me.
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Beach Boy
Birmingham Alabama
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Does this information apply for all sizes of Cooper tires used on RV's? I have a MH and came close to purchasing Coopers for the front axle. My rim size is 19.5. Thanks for the heads-up.
Bill & Laura Blanton
1990 37' Allegro Basement Model with tag axle
1997 Jeep Wrangler w/ Sterling tow bar
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Paul B
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Yesterday a bunch of Goodyear Marathons, now Cooper. Ya, I have Carliles, but about 20k troublefree miles and still going!!!
Paul B
2001 Excursion-Powerstroke Diesel
2000 Honda CRV
2006 Flagstaff 31' - 7.5k lbs.
2004 Two Honda EU2000i's/parallel cables/extra fuel tank
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Prowlerado
Cumberland County, New Jersey
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Is this just for their RV tires? I've had Cooper's on our car for 2 years never a problem.
00 Silverado 5.3L, 133"WB, 6400lb. GVWR/GCVWR 12,000 lbs.
GVW w/o TT 5250 lbs...w/ TT 5964 lbs., GCVW 10,350 lbs.
04 Prowler 25J 6800lb. GVWR
GVW 5100 lbs. - Tongue weight: 700 lbs
Reese Dual Cam
Me: Ray(22) Billy (3-1/2)
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McDonoughDawg
Peachtree City, GA, USA
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Personally, I don't cut corners/prices on tires for my vehicles. I didn't buy a Yugo when it came out and I am not going to buy Cooper tires.
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skipnchar
Topeka Kansas USA
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Paul B wrote:Yesterday a bunch of Goodyear Marathons, now Cooper. Ya, I have Carliles, but about 20k troublefree miles and still going!!!
Paul B
LOL - We live in a VERY strange world 
quote: Personally, I don't cut corners/prices on tires for my vehicles. I didn't buy a Yugo when it came out and I am not going to buy Cooper tires.
That one's kind of hard to understand. Cooper tires are just too expensive for me to use. Guess I'm lucky I can only afford Goodyear.
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edited 11/04/05 08:43am by skipnchar *
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almckin
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Thanks for the heads up.Gonna be checking mine TODAY.
Al & Donna
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04 292 Sprinter
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Ag Teacher
Oklahoma
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Those big bad tire companies. All they do any more is try to kill off all of their customers. When will it end.
2005 Explorer by Frontier RV T265
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BenK
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"Most" all big companies are now run by bean counters who know very little
to nothing about their products, processes, and customers. They only know
HOW2 run a company from the spread sheet (FASB) & legal (SEC) side of things.
Bottom line only, so of course they will chose a penny over common sense
any day.
Not just Copper, but all of them (most all...as I'm sure there are some
with common sense and knowledge of their products). GM, Ford, Dodge,
Toyota, Nissan, HP, IBM, etc, etc.
I'll check out that thread later today to see which/where wedge. There are
many in most all tire designs. If tread, then thinking/guessing the ones
at the transition between tread to sidewall. That one manages both the
squirm (both waves, one on the sidewall and other tread) and the tendency
for the tire to "roll over" onto the sidewall. Both of those metrics are
involved with heat generation within the tire materials and the stability
of the tire while rolling.
Wonder if their upper management also talked about their clothes like
the head of FEMA did...
-Ben Picture of my rig
1996 GMC SLT Suburban 3/4 ton K3500/7.4L/4:1/+150Kmiles orig owner...
1980 Chevy Silverado C10/long bed/"BUILT" 5.7L/3:73/1 ton helper springs/+329Kmiles, bought it from dad...
1998 Mazda B2500 (1/2 ton) pickup, 2nd owner...
Praise Dyno Brake equiped and all have "nose bleed" braking!
Previous trucks/offroaders: 40's Jeep restored in mid 60's / 69 DuneBuggy (approx +1K lb: VW pan/200hpCorvair: eng, cam, dual carb'w velocity stacks'n 18" runners, 4spd transaxle) made myself from ground up / 1970 Toyota FJ40 / 1973 K5 Blazer (2dr Tahoe, 1 ton axles front/rear, +255K miles when sold it)...
Sold the boat (looking for another): Trophy with twin 150's...
51 cylinders in household, what's yours?...
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