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Originally Posted by gasstingy
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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Wally world sold me 2 tires as emergency trip failures happened I bought cheapo douglass tires so as to get road hazzard also within my cant afford to spend all this darned money extra on vacation Budget.
The rooring nails convinced me I wanted the extra ins even without extra cash to spend. type Douglass xtra trak??? Then had to remove and install them in parking lot myself because I broke off one lug nut.
purchased 2 more matching 2 weeks later because the 2 best were the ones shredded on trip anyhow.
I began playing with front and rear pressures up to 55psi down to 28 for best effect mpg. bands broke in 2 and another got blister on sidewall.
Took them back only recieved partial credit as they said It was from hitting curbs or such and that wasnt quite a road hazzard. but did offer 50% of value added to a set of viva 2and carry over of the warenty I already paid for to them. needless to say I ended up with 2 miss matched sets with a questionable warrenty for about $580.00
I coulda had what I wanted first time for that money.
On side note viva 2 dont seem very eco tred designed but thier medium compound and run well at 42 psi not impressed but thier ok Im not complaining about them.