Run Flats to GSD93s
Le Mans Master
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From: Zephyrhills, Florida
St. Jude Donor '06-'07-'08-'09-'10-'11-'12-'13
You got some bad info from a numbnutz dealer
I live near Goodyear world hq. and the info you were given isn't anywhere near accurate.........
I live near Goodyear world hq. and the info you were given isn't anywhere near accurate.........
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From: Arroyo Grande CA
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Le Mans Master
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From: Zephyrhills, Florida
St. Jude Donor '06-'07-'08-'09-'10-'11-'12-'13
No Holiday Inn.........just the $29 special complete with local talent
Seriously, you should see some of the trials they put these tires through on their test track 
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From: Clark NJ
St. Jude Donor '05 thru '26
I'm cruisining down the freeway at around 70 MPH. All of a sudden I see what appears to be a partially crushed 12 ounce aluminum can in front of me. I realize my right tires are going to hit it. I decided not to swerve in heavy traffic. BA-BANG! It wasn't aluminum, and must have been a piece of steel. Immediately I begin listening and feeling for anything unusual. All feels normal. Ding, ding, ding, about 10 seconds later my computer starts talking to me saying that my right rear tire is flat.
I went to a Chevrolet dealer that proved worse than worseless-they wouldn't even look at my tire and had no clue where the nearest Good Year Tire dealer was! Then they gave me directions to an independent tire dealer, the service writer's kid worked there, but the independent tire dealer didn't want to have anything to do with run flat repair.
I then found a Good Year dealer that appeared to me as ignorant and confused as the independent tire dealer. I then was disgusted to find out that after driving 8 to 10 miles on run flats they can't be fixed-heck even if they repair them they say don't drive fast on a repaired run flat? WTF good are these run flats? So to make a longer story short-I bought some GSD 3s for 1K out the door. The noise was gone. The tires stick a lot better, and it seems to be on tracks when negotiating a curve. I love my new tires! No more run flats for me.
I went to a Chevrolet dealer that proved worse than worseless-they wouldn't even look at my tire and had no clue where the nearest Good Year Tire dealer was! Then they gave me directions to an independent tire dealer, the service writer's kid worked there, but the independent tire dealer didn't want to have anything to do with run flat repair.
I then found a Good Year dealer that appeared to me as ignorant and confused as the independent tire dealer. I then was disgusted to find out that after driving 8 to 10 miles on run flats they can't be fixed-heck even if they repair them they say don't drive fast on a repaired run flat? WTF good are these run flats? So to make a longer story short-I bought some GSD 3s for 1K out the door. The noise was gone. The tires stick a lot better, and it seems to be on tracks when negotiating a curve. I love my new tires! No more run flats for me.
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Did you drive to these various tire dealers on your punctured runflats? You’re can’t do that with your GSD’s!!! I’ll take the security of the runflats, thank you! Sure you can take a patch kit along, so long as you’re willing to risk you’re a$$ fixing a flat on the side of the road in the dark when it’s raining.
