Re: [Chrysler300] Fwd: Coker Tires way past 'best before date'

Mark:

I hate to put good money out for tires that look good. However, the value of my 300F is probably in the $50-60K range. At freeway speeds and you blow a front tire, you may or may not have a total. I will not chance it. I don't drive the car but a few hundred miles each year but at 6 years, I change the tires if I am going to drive it at high speeds and long distances.

Besides, I want to see your F at the Meet in show condition

By the way, when are you leaving for the Meet? I am leaving early Monday morning, 5/14. Perhaps we can meet up along the way and caravan. I will be going up I -5 also.

Dan Reitz

Bell Canyon, CA

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From: mark love <marklove@xxxxxx>
Date: April 28, 2018 at 9:15:24 AM PDT
To: "Yahoo! Inc." <chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Coker Tires way past 'best before date'

All;
I’m trying to get by on a set of Coker Classics in my 300F, but want to drive the car about 250 mi north to the 300 Club meet in Rohnert Park in a couple of weeks.
The tires seem fine as I tool around Palm Desert on 20-30 mi runs, often at 60- 70 mph in stretches.
Lots of tread depth and no side wall cracks or blisters but here are some hair line cracks on the side wall running parallel to the wheel, just outside the wheel lip.
I’ve been told everything from ‘get new tires immediately to cheap sob’ to ‘if the cracks deepen to 1/8", it’s time to buy new tires’ to ‘hell, roll ‘em off the rims, it’s all a scam by the manufacturers just trying to get you to buy more tires more often’.
It’s hot weather here now, 90-100 in the daytime and I’ll be rolling up I5 to San Francisco at 60-65 mph. It’s likely 7-8 hours with three or four stops along the way.
Question: ‘get new tires you cheap sob’ or ‘roll ‘em off the rims’?
Thanks,
Mark