Tire Issue Question
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To the OP;
You have made several posts (bitched, but I don't blame you) about your problem:
Did you report this to NHTSA? (The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration)
Dunlop has had problems with tire compounds in the past, some recent, which have caused recalls.
(Actually, more than one, Google it.)
I just checked my original rear tire (D407) that I took off my bike at about 20K miles (it is still mounted on original wheel)
There is no separation of compounds as in your pic., no dry rot, and is at about 7/64 tread depth.
Apparently Dunlop (or their parent non-US company Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.) has changed something to allow the tire to separate that way, and they have been called out on it for other tires.
Maybe it is time to call them out for these tires?
(maybe I should check my current tires???)
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You have made several posts (bitched, but I don't blame you) about your problem:
Did you report this to NHTSA? (The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration)
Dunlop has had problems with tire compounds in the past, some recent, which have caused recalls.
(Actually, more than one, Google it.)
I just checked my original rear tire (D407) that I took off my bike at about 20K miles (it is still mounted on original wheel)
There is no separation of compounds as in your pic., no dry rot, and is at about 7/64 tread depth.
Apparently Dunlop (or their parent non-US company Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.) has changed something to allow the tire to separate that way, and they have been called out on it for other tires.
Maybe it is time to call them out for these tires?
(maybe I should check my current tires???)
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From: Las Vegas
To the OP;
You have made several posts (bitched, but I don't blame you) about your problem:
Did you report this to NHTSA? (The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration)
Dunlop has had problems with tire compounds in the past, some recent, which have caused recalls.
(Actually, more than one, Google it.)
I just checked my original rear tire (D407) that I took off my bike at about 20K miles (it is still mounted on original wheel)
There is no separation of compounds as in your pic., no dry rot, and is at about 7/64 tread depth.
Apparently Dunlop (or their parent non-US company Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.) has changed something to allow the tire to separate that way, and they have been called out on it for other tires.
Maybe it is time to call them out for these tires?
(maybe I should check my current tires???)
.
You have made several posts (bitched, but I don't blame you) about your problem:
Did you report this to NHTSA? (The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration)
Dunlop has had problems with tire compounds in the past, some recent, which have caused recalls.
(Actually, more than one, Google it.)
I just checked my original rear tire (D407) that I took off my bike at about 20K miles (it is still mounted on original wheel)
There is no separation of compounds as in your pic., no dry rot, and is at about 7/64 tread depth.
Apparently Dunlop (or their parent non-US company Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.) has changed something to allow the tire to separate that way, and they have been called out on it for other tires.
Maybe it is time to call them out for these tires?
(maybe I should check my current tires???)
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Dunlop's warranty does me no good as it's a pro-rated replacement warranty if I understood it correctly, and I don't care to have another one.
I've chosen to move on, and have purchased the new CIII to give them a try. How they'll hold up is anyones guess.
Here's a picture of the 8k mile tire I mentioned above.
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I've just done a little research on the net and Dunlop tires are owned by Goodyear from what I can gather. So that's it for me with Dunlops as I've bought well into the thousands of tires for everything from 18 wheelers, farm equipment and passenger vehicles and believe Goodyear tires are nothing but garbage.
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