Walmart has select
Auto Vehicle/Passenger Rollback Tires Event (various brands/sizes) on sale
from $50.86 listed below.
Shipping is free, otherwise, select free curbside pickup if stock permits.
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If you are going budget brand, I'd stick with a budget brand made by one of the top manufacturers (e.g. Goodyear, Continental, etc.). Douglas tires are made by Goodyear. You aren't going to get there latest technologies, but you'll get a tire that has a long reputation.
The conventional measure of one direction handling are skidpads, and dynamic handling (as in emergency maneuvers) are slaloms. This is very basic stuff that is covered well in testing that you can research if you desire.
None of this is to knock your sister's tires. There are bare minimum standards that exists for the manufacture of tires as you point out. It's not about fear. It's about understanding that extra money spent can actually buy better performing tires that can make a vehicle stop faster and handle better. I'm glad you mentioned tire wear, because that's another area where better tires drop off far less than others. This is the hardest area to find data on as most tires are tested new. I could link you to a Michelin study, that's shows variance from new to old across brands, but there's too much bias there as Michelin conducted the test. Just talking about anecdotes like you were, I can tell you I bought Falken tires once. They offered very good out-of-the-box performance when new, but boy did they become shit in the wet once slightly worn. I wish there was better testing to know that could happen. On the other hand, I've had Yokohama Avid Ascend GTs that maintained impressive all weather performance their entire life, and they are fairly cheap for what is offered.
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(IE: Goodyear VIVA 3 tires, made by Goodyear, but the warranty is by Walmart, if you took that tire to a Goodyear Store, they'd send you to Walmart for any Warranty issues.
But no, tire companies don't push off blems or defective tires to Walmart and other Big box, they're all DOT tagged, and they're held responsible if known defective tires are being sold...
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If a person is informed and decides they'd rather save the money and gamble that they won't need the performance, that's at least rational. On the other hand, if a person just lies to themselves that the less expensive tires do not potentially decrease safety, that's not an educated decision.
I don't understand what "better constructed" means in your context. It's apparent you pay more for warranty and tread longevity with more expensive tires but beyond that, I'm not sure what emergency manuevers have been tested that make a real world difference in safety. There are stringest safety standards to manufacture tires sold in the United States [federalregister.gov]. So there shouldn't be a fear that somehow cheap Chinese tires are inherently unsafe (you didn't say they were but I'm just putting that here in case people were curious).
Obviously my note was a n=1 anecdote, just wanted to let people know it has been a good tire for several years now. I'm totally open to reading more about any tests you are referring to.
What have you done J Pow 😠ðŸ˜
The only recommendation i have is, do not get the chinese trailer tires. They are infamous for blowing out when nearly brand new.
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I don't understand what "better constructed" means in your context. It's apparent you pay more for warranty and tread longevity with more expensive tires but beyond that, I'm not sure what emergency manuevers have been tested that make a real world difference in safety. There are stringest safety standards to manufacture tires sold in the United States [federalregister.gov]. So there shouldn't be a fear that somehow cheap Chinese tires are inherently unsafe (you didn't say they were but I'm just putting that here in case people were curious).
Obviously my note was a n=1 anecdote, just wanted to let people know it has been a good tire for several years now. I'm totally open to reading more about any tests you are referring to.
The conventional measure of one direction handling are skidpads, and dynamic handling (as in emergency maneuvers) are slaloms. This is very basic stuff that is covered well in testing that you can research if you desire.
None of this is to knock your sister's tires. There are bare minimum standards that exists for the manufacture of tires as you point out. It's not about fear. It's about understanding that extra money spent can actually buy better performing tires that can make a vehicle stop faster and handle better. I'm glad you mentioned tire wear, because that's another area where better tires drop off far less than others. This is the hardest area to find data on as most tires are tested new. I could link you to a Michelin study, that's shows variance from new to old across brands, but there's too much bias there as Michelin conducted the test. Just talking about anecdotes like you were, I can tell you I bought Falken tires once. They offered very good out-of-the-box performance when new, but boy did they become shit in the wet once slightly worn. I wish there was better testing to know that could happen. On the other hand, I've had Yokohama Avid Ascend GTs that maintained impressive all weather performance their entire life, and they are fairly cheap for what is offered.
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