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FWIW, be careful about buying tires from Walmart. They have tires made especially for them in at least some cases. As a couple of examples that I checked into {not second party info that I'm repeating}. Walmart sold the BF Goodrich Excentia GT RWL tire in 185/60R14 that I considered for the Miata I used to own. Wanting to know more about the tire before buying it, I went to the BF Goodrich website to look at the specs. Nothing at all on the Excentia, so I e-mailed BF Goodrich via their contact link on the website. They told me that it was specially made for Walmart and if I was interested in any specs, contact Walmart. Same basic story for Goodyear and the Viva 2 radial Walmart sells as a fuel economy tire. Goodyear disowns the Viva 2 as a Walmart special. Both of these are store-stock tires.
OTOH, when I went to buy tires for the Rio I had, I saw a Continental tire available for Walmart online purchase that were listed on Continentals website. It was not a store-stock tire, but could be shipped free to the store. I bought a set of those tires but in both previous cases passed on the Walmart specials. My logic is, if the manufacturer is ashamed of them, I don't want them either.
Mark
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