Thursday, Mar 16, 2006 at 23:03
Yes they ARE supposed to be chip resistant. I did untold damage to
mine up at the Outback Challenge last year, chipped the hell out of them and lost whole lugs etc. The friendly Cooper man called by and told me "Oh thats not chipping"
Well I dont know what it was then.
Anyhoo he replaced two of the tyres for nix, I had sliced/staked the other two, but it was a battle. The one with the missing lug was a no-brainer, but the other one had only "bits" missing and I had to convince him to replace that also, by calm discussion. He came around tho with not a lot of coaxing. I was more concerned getting him to replace the sliced one cause it was as stuffed as the others tread-wise but had a bg slice in it. Suffice to say I didnt win that arguement.
Imagine my joy when the tyre man raplaced them and came out with his schmick digital tread depth gauge and measured the tread depth for the "pro-rata" replacement. Hmm they were down to 12mm after 4000 km from a start of 15mm, 20% after 4000 km .... that would mean 20000km from the suckers. I got him to measure the sliced one and it was worn MORE (11mm) than the ones that had done 2000km more.
So after an appropriate seethe, I called the tyre man back and told him it was replacement not pro-rata and that there were a number of
places that he could insert the new tyres if he wanted me to pay ANYTHING. He saw reason after I mentioned I would cut them off and give them back to him.
After 2 years of wanting Coopers I now want something else and the Coopers are brand new, should have just burnt the $1000 dollars I paid for them in a campfire, would have been more pleasure.
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