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

All of us have different experiences and thoughts. My Coker Classics on my '55 C300 lasted 21 years. Still plenty of tread but hairline cracks. By some sort of miracle, while on jack stands, overnight, tread on right front tire separated. Car had been on jack stands about 6 months and not driven. Just glad it happened in my shop and not on the road.

5 new Coker Classics are nice, however, the quality is not as high as it used to be. Coker has already replaced at no cost to me 2 of these 3 inch whitewall radials with miner flaws in the whitewalls. Call me at 678-521-3658 for more details

Bill Allen

On Tue, May 1, 2018, 12:14 AM mark love marklove@xxxxxx [Chrysler300] <Chrysler300-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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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