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Subject: TireProblems : So - What is next? - What shall I do now?
I posted the preceding stories and updates already
on the brickboard. Here is the newest update:
3 of my 4 SEARS tires got the bulge (Guardsman SCR II).
I replaced them one by one. One tire I had left.
Until I came to this 30 Million Dollar lawsuit
against the manufacturer.
I posted these lawsuit-links on the brickboard/links
some month ago, but Jarrod or Ringlee deleted it,
probably by keeping it - they might loose some
advertisement customers. !?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Or did they put it somewhere else in the brickboard,
where a blind guy like me can't find it??
OK I had one tire left with bulge and went to SEARS.
They measured the pressure and the warm tire
out of the warm wagon trunk had 40 psi.
(We had 90 F in Southern California the last days.)
The maximum pressure is 44 psi labeled on the tire.
So the guy in Sears said, it is caused by overinflating
and they will give me nothing for it. Nada. Zero. Null.
Of course I refused his point, because the tire was warm
when he measured it and still 10 percent below the maximum.
OK I went to the next SEARS Auto shop.
First:
There they said the tire was produced 4 years and 11 month ago
(week 25 of 1997) and there is no guarantee.
I answered the warranty starts with the date of Sale
and not with the production.
Second :
They want to see the receipt, when and where
I bought the SEARS tire from SEARS. - I don't have that.
Tires were bought by PO.
They want to know also the milage the tire ran.
Can't give that too, because my odometer is broken.
Third:
He measured the remaining profile ON THE BULGE.
That is about a HALF inch protruding from the good parts.
Of course at the bulge the profile is almost ZERO.
The good parts have app. 4 mm profile.
Pointing to the lack of profile, he said
he will give nothing because the tire is used,
and he has to measure the profile at the lowest spot!
What an irony!!! If there is a bulge They measure that spot !!!
Fourth:
They say, if I could get any reimbursement, what they doubt,
it would be approximately 5 $ or so.
OK my questions are now:
Regarding the 30,000,000 $ coppertirelitigation:
Is it already settled or what?
What do I have to show or proof?
As I read the legal papers from the NewJersey court,
since I am the owner of this tire,
produced between 1985 and 2002,
I am entitled to a reimbursement.
But how do I claim?
Do I have to go to SEARS with 2 witnesses and an attorney?
Or should I contact the small claims court?
Or should I contact the Bureau for Better Business?
In the moment I am stuck.
What anger's me,
it's not the value of the remaining profile,
but the way SEARS handles warrantys and tries to
avoid any reimbursement by all means.
Any reimbursement would be far away from all the damage,
what these faulty tires caused on suspension, bushings,
struts, shocks, tierod ends, ball joints, steering.
If I would count all the damages together, it would be
a few hundreds or maybe a thou bucks.
Or shall I just accept it as it is. They are s*** tires,
they were always s*** tires and there is no way to
claim anything. According to the old sales man :
Once you have/bought it - it is YOUR problem!
My conclusion:
STAY AWAY FROM SEARS - BY ALL MEANS AND UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES !!!!!!!!!!
One last idea:
Why is it, in the AAA magazine 'Westways', they have a lifestyle
section with restaurant reviews and wine recommendations,
but they don't write anything about tires/quality/lawsuits.
The AAA magazine has about 50 % lifestyle, 30 % advertisement
and a meager 20 % car-related content. Why ???????
There is almost more information about cars in any
telephonebook than in the AAA magazine.
Should I buy a lifestyle magazine to read about cars and tires?
Any input appreciated!
Feel free to wax in all your poetry!
(which seatcovers are nicer to run with a humpy-bumpy-bulgy tire?)
(P.S. I have a ZF tranny with automatic lockup and don't know
anything about AW tranny overdrives)
Thanks for your time and have fun !
--
GN Long Beach 745 1986
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