I will buy the best product available. Just as a little correction, Maxxis happens to me made in Thailand and not Taiwan.Tuscany wrote: Tue Jun 29, 2021 10:45 am Just a simple suggestion..
Maybe consider investing in American labor instead of the Taiwanese economy.
You will get a trustworthy tire and help out your neighbor.
Marathon was a great tire when it was made in the US. It was when they shipped the production to China is when they started failing.jhnmdahl wrote: Tue Jun 29, 2021 11:33 am The Goodyear Endurance is widely regarded as a big step up from the Marathon, but even a bad tire won’t cause problems for most people.
I’m hesitant to order manny things from China myself, but I think of Taiwan a bit differently. They produce some of the best machine tools, semiconductors, etc., in the world, which is why companies like Apple use Taiwan Semiconductor almost exclusively for fabrication. I know less about tires, but wouldn’t rule a set out because they came from Taiwan.
Yes TSMC is so good look what they just did to our economy! They are just coming here because we will give them billions of free money and they can make billions. Us as smart as we are let the chip issue become what it is today. Shame on us and Intel!bruceb58 wrote: Tue Jun 29, 2021 5:55 pmMarathon was a great tire when it was made in the US. It was when they shipped the production to China is when they started failing.jhnmdahl wrote: Tue Jun 29, 2021 11:33 am The Goodyear Endurance is widely regarded as a big step up from the Marathon, but even a bad tire won’t cause problems for most people.
I’m hesitant to order manny things from China myself, but I think of Taiwan a bit differently. They produce some of the best machine tools, semiconductors, etc., in the world, which is why companies like Apple use Taiwan Semiconductor almost exclusively for fabrication. I know less about tires, but wouldn’t rule a set out because they came from Taiwan.
I am actually not a huge fan of Goodyear in general. Their huge coverup of RV tire failures kinda left a bad taste in my mouth with that company. Look up Goodyear’s G159 tire.
Taiwan makes great stuff.
TSMC from Taiwan is the world's largest semiconductor foundry. Every auto, truck,boat...probably has at least one IC in it that came from the TSMC foundry. At the company I worked at, all of the ICs we designed came from the TSMC foundry. BTW...TSMC plans on opening a foundry here in the US to meet the USA chip demand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSMC
That's not weird at all. I changed yours on my clown car and lost 4mpg.sailor55330 wrote: Thu Jul 01, 2021 11:11 pm So I towed a little over 100 mile today on the endurance. Pretty darn impressed. Smoothest tow I’ve had ever. What I’m going to say is going to sound crazy—the truck did t work as hard. I can’t explain it but I could hold higher gears better wear I normally downshift and the mileage went up a little. Same route I’ve towed dozens of times
Really nice tires
One of my trailers came with bias tires. After I ended up cutting 2 of them during our house build I replaced all 4 with radials. I dont even remember the brand I just needed tires ASAP. I could not believe the difference in ride, tow-ability, and I am sure the fuel mpg went up too. So I can also believe how a quality built tire would improve on all of those aspects even more.sailor55330 wrote: Thu Jul 01, 2021 11:11 pm So I towed a little over 100 mile today on the endurance. Pretty darn impressed. Smoothest tow I’ve had ever. What I’m going to say is going to sound crazy—the truck did t work as hard. I can’t explain it but I could hold higher gears better wear I normally downshift and the mileage went up a little. Same route I’ve towed dozens of times
Really nice tires
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