Enjoy dying on the highway.
Chinese Tires
Aaron King
Elijah Murphy
Those people are essentially like this
>it's summer
>buy summer tyres
>wew, those tyres are so grippy and they were so cheap
>i'm going to write a stellar review about them so everyone knows how good they are and how bad premium brands are for ripping us off
>eh, it's so hot and I don't want to lose any power with the AC turned on so I'm just going to roll down my windows
>wow, those tyres are so noisy... but eh, they were cheap and at least they are grippy
>one day it rains
>oh man, those tyres are so grippy in the dry, they must be grippy in the wet
>let me attack this turn in 2nd at 50km/h
>tyres don't grip at all
>try to brake, but it's just like skidding on oil
>understeer into a fucking wall
Bentley Martinez
>tfw I got a set of falken ziex h rated tires for 60 each with 2 day shipping
You overpaid
Benjamin Cruz
Delinte gave me 3 free sets of tyres for my track car to run in a 5 hour race.
They are useless pieces of shit. Literally anything is better
Owen Garcia
A bit of this.
Always keep in mind that the average consumer is a fucking idiot, and has no actual knowledge of anything. You could put some Hankook Kinergy Eco up against some MPSS's and the average person would still probably rate both 10/10, or even the MPSS worse as its louder
Grayson White
>cheaping out on the only thing that keeps you on the road.
Shiggy diggy.
Lincoln Stewart
>Has anyone here had experience with Chinese tires?
>so it shouldn't be too big of a deal, right?
The problem is that chinese companies have a pattern where they start off good to get a reputation. Then they cheapen and/or swap the product to coast on that product's reputation to boost profits.
They do that for everything like chemical purity to foodstuff cleanliness and sourcing. They do that for raw materials as well as finished products. They swap the internals of electronics without filing for another license or performing another inspection, thus invalidating the Underwriters Laboratory approval. They would continue stamping UL marks on unapproved or untested items. UL caught wind of it and made it harder and more expensive for chinese companies, so they switched to easygoing CSL approval. You rarely see UL approval now since UL keeps watching for unauthorized substitution (bait and switch), so the chinese companies don't use UL due to UL actually enforcing standards are maintained.
I bought an APC brand extension outlet rated for 15 amperes (made in china of course). I plugged in a 1050 watt load (8.75 amperes) and after a short time the extension began smelling and the plastic case started sagging at one spot. It was made too cheaply to even handle a bit over half of its power rating despite the UL stamp. In defense of UL, this APC product was purchased just before UL noticed the chinese companies changing the products so this APC unit was probably one of those bad chinese products with "fake" UL marks. When the chinese change the product internals, it becomes a situation where the product that was approved (at the UL labs) was not the same product being manufactured. The chinese do this swapping frequently once a product has been on the market awhile and they guess no one is continuing to inspect that product.
Related thread on chinese-made auto parts:
archive.4plebs.org
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Kevin Reyes
>Hey Veeky Forums, I bought a set of brand new tires on eBay for about $250 with free shipping.
You should also use baseline comparison pricing from warehouse shopping clubs such as Costco Wholesale and Sam's Club. Those stores are all over the USA and have free mounting, patch/plugs for flats, and warranty service at their respective stores in the USA. The free mounting includes the dismounting of your current tires from their rims, mounting of the purchased tires, and balancing.
At my local Sam's Club today, I saw some BF Goodrich all-season touring radials for $68 each tire. That seems really hard to beat since it includes the services that other places charge extra fees for when you install these chinese tires.
Well, at least your set of tires are lower cost than one of the Yokohama tires in the picture.
Benjamin Thompson
I put cheap Dexteros (Walmart brand tires made in China) on mostly-trucks all day.
We get complaints about them being noisy garbage all the time. From a tech's point of view, they're a bitch to get balanced right- much more so than anything else I have to deal with. I groan every time a set is wrote up to be installed.
Junk, avoid them.
Hudson Morales
>I put cheap Dexteros (Walmart brand tires made in China) on mostly-trucks all day.
You are probably referring to Dexteros DTR1 tires at $53 each. But the reviews posted online for Dextero DHT2 $101 dollar tires are 3.8 to 4.6 stars out of 5 stars. They are "the best" or "reliable" or "all season" tires. Don't tell me these are all fake reviews created by the chinese staff of dexteros tire company? If chinese tires have higher user reviews than Michelin Pilot, then these Dexteros chinese tires must be better than Michelin Pilots.
Official Dexteros Tire company quote:
Advanced noise cancelling technology effectively reduces tire road noise ...
Review quote:
Look at the reviews...we are all in agreement...these Dextero DHT2 tires are the best riding and handling tires I have ever found
A ton of customers rated Dextero DHT2 tires 5 stars out of 5 stars:
walmart.com