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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 5 2015, 12:37 AM (1,548 Views) | |
| cwatkin | Mar 5 2015, 12:37 AM Post #1 |
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I had a Douglas come apart at the seams not long ago. It came on the car and someone said, "That is one of those crappy Wal-Mart Douglas tires. They all do that." Now I know firsthand with dealing in computers/electronics that Wal-Mart spec goods can be made to a lower standard. I would think that anything required to meet government specs like tires would not fall into this category. I know that many of the tire companies sell their lower lines there but don't they still have minimum specs on these things? I know Wal-Mart is Wal-Mart but they have enough bad publicity that you would think they wouldn't stoop to selling unsafe tires. Is this the case or more of the Wal-Mart hating? It isn't that they don't deserve some of the hate but it seems hard to imagine that these tires would make it through the approval process. Conor |
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| Tubablake | Mar 5 2015, 01:30 PM Post #2 |
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A careless employee probably sold you tires that were old and they fell apart. I worked as a Wally world tire tech for quite some time and never once did I have a tire failure. My car has 4 195/65 R15 Douglas Xtra Trac II's now for 35k miles and have only lost 3 32's. For 40k mile tires that is really good. If you were too actually look at the rules we as tech's had to follow then you would see Wally world is really strick when it comes to all that tire and oil stuff. It's to protect them. A lot of times what happens is a careless employee ignored rules and there is a problem. We had one employee that put tires on clearly bent rims( I mean bent so bad you could see it wobble on the balancer.) Because of that the tires wore out along with the bearings and tie rod ends and eventually the tire failed. Because the employee ignored that rule, we had to pay to replace all of those things on the customers car, even though the customer felt his car vibrate we still had to replace everything. This resulted in an uhappy customer put in an unsafe situation. All provided by an employee who was fired. All these tires are just name changed Goodyears. |
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| DesmondGhostRider | Mar 5 2015, 03:04 PM Post #3 |
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I've never had an issue with Walmart tires. I'd take it back and get it swapped. Make sure there is nothing in the wheel well that could have cut your tire or something. I popped a brand new tire once because one of those little rods that supports the corners of the bumper snapped off the bumper, swung around backwards, and popped my tire. :/ Just something to think about. |
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| dayle1960 | Mar 5 2015, 04:26 PM Post #4 |
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I've thrown wally world Douglas tires on my metro for over 13 years without ever having a problem. Never. Never. Ever. I'm sure there is a government agency which tests new types of tires. If Douglas had problems then the government tests would have found them. Your problem was probably due to lack of air pressure, old tires, somebody slit the back side of the tire with a pocket knife...... |
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| Mythstae | Mar 5 2015, 04:29 PM Post #5 |
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He didn't buy the tires. They came already installed on a car he bought. |
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| Highwayman | Mar 6 2015, 02:15 AM Post #6 |
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I buy the xtra tracks and have been using them for 16 years thats appx 20 sets and I have never had a problem except I cant get more than a year on a set ( 30000-35000 miles) I mount and balance them myself as it is real easy to damage tne bead on the extratrac 12 and now 13 inch tires. My daughter got a nail in one of hers and had a non wally store repair it. She came home and showed me a big bulge on the sidewall bead so her nearly new tire was ruined by them tearing the bead while remounting it.
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| Tubablake | Mar 6 2015, 04:31 PM Post #7 |
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I meant the person who bought them before to clear it up. They were probably old, and maybe the person before had run them with low psi, happens more than you would think. When I bought my new metro in like october the tires on it were only 3months old but because he was running them at 20psi they were ruined. I don't love wally world but not everything is crap. |
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| cwatkin | Mar 7 2015, 01:44 PM Post #8 |
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Gotcha! Good to hear. I figured they wouldn't sell unsafe tires. They may not be top of the line but not death traps either. Yes, the tires were on the car when I bought it so don't know the history. They had plenty of tread but the one came apart and it appeared to be a major structural failure of the belt. I was probably seconds away from a blow out when I pulled over. Conor |
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| wahoospa | Apr 21 2015, 11:26 AM Post #9 |
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I bought 4 Douglas tires from Walmart about 6 years ago and they are still on the car (116,000 miles on car) except for one that I had to replace because I ran over something on the Interstate one day. They are now what I consider 'getting old' and need to replaced them soon. When I had to replace the one tire I had a hard time finding 13" tires. The only place in this area that had 13' tires was Sears. Sorry I went there, it took 5 hours to get one tire installed. Never going there again. Oh, one other thing, the tires were only $20.00 each. They said they were going to stop selling them when sold out and they had 1 left after I took the 4. I will gladly buy Douglas tires again if I can find them locally. |
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| ThePrudentNinja | Jul 10 2015, 10:23 PM Post #10 |
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Would just like to point out that tires are technically "perishable". Any tire older than about six years is potentially dangerous even if it "looks" new. The reason is the rubber itself can deteriorate over time and when used lead to tread separation or blowouts. I have seen some places selling "new" tires that were manufactured over five years prior. You can read the following link to tell how old your tires are and learn how to avoid getting old "new" tires. http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tiretech/techpage.jsp?techid=11 |
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| wahoospa | Jul 11 2015, 05:10 PM Post #11 |
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That 6 years was a wild guess, I recently replaced all 4 tires with the same brand from Walmart. |
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| Bannedfonz | Jul 11 2015, 08:13 PM Post #12 |
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Like others have said, never an issue with Wal-Mart tires here either. Never had the Douglas tires, but has 3 sets of different brands of wal-mart tires on my S-10 over the years and no issues. |
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| solerpower | Jul 12 2015, 10:57 AM Post #13 |
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Ten plus years and counting! This is not the number of years I have had their tires. It is the number of years not buying anything from them.
Edited by solerpower, Jul 12 2015, 10:59 AM.
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| ThePrudentNinja | Jul 12 2015, 11:46 PM Post #14 |
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I'm considering the purchase of a Walmart tire. At around $50 not bad. Only need one (the rest are perfectly fine). If I do, I'll give my two cents on how it goes. Might be a month or so away though. |
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| rmcelwee | Jul 13 2015, 05:14 PM Post #15 |
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Tell us more about balancing your own tires. I keep having balance issues on all my tires and want to start doing them myself. |
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