Goodyear Polyglas flaw

I look forward to reading the reply you receive. I have always had great customer service from Kelsey Tire but I've only had 1 tire with an issue and that was 15+ years ago. They sent me a new tire and covered the return shipping.

I guess I'll unwrap the other three G60 tires and see how they look. I'll send Kelsey photos of my tire with the white rubber flashing on the bead and see what they say. As if the escalation in price isn't bad enough, now there are quality issues as well. Thanks for your post about this topic.

$140/hour. Ouch!

 

I got news for everyone....Coker quality is in the toilet right now as well.
Back in August I ordered F70-14 redlines.
I ordered 2 from Summit, and 2 from Jegs.
Reason.....Summit only had 2 in stock, and didn't charge 10/tire handling fee that Jegs did.
Got the tires from both places, and opened them. One of the tires from Jegs had a defective redline, the redline wasn't grooved right and got very thin for about a 4 inch section. Called them, returned it and got a replacement.
The tires from both places were all molded same day, same batch.
About three weeks later, my son and I were in the garage, and my boy says, whoa, look at that tire.
I look and see a goose egg size bulge in the sidewall of one of the tires near the bead. Zero miles on them, just sitting in the barn. Called summit returned it, they are out of stock on backorder, so my car has three beautiful restored wheels with redlines, and one ugly spare, and no date for replacement tire.

 

Back in the 200os I had to send tires back to Kelsey, way out of round! Also back then I ordered a set and had them shipped to a shop in Iowa and the shipper left them on a doorstep!? You know where this is going, either the shop kept ‘‘em or they said they weren’t there, luckily for me ups or maybe it was fed ex covered it gregg

 

Holy crap. For that kind of cash you get white dots? That would drive me absolutely mad.

 

O' ya, the body shop rate is $110 per hour. VET

 

Mine are scheduled to be delivered tomorrow. Hopefully they will be ok.

 

Hello,

The issues that you are seeing are completely within the realm of normal construction. The white dots are the white rubber coming up into the vents. Same thing happens to redline tires. The remedy for this is nail clippers removing the vent nubs and dotting the white with Sharpie markers. Unless you want to leave it like that, as the same thing happened back in 1970.

 

Ok each time the car is taken out I have to sharpie 20-30 dots per tire so I don't look ridiculous with our high end high dollar restoration . Ok what about the loose white rubber flashing along the bead? Kelsey said this shouldn't be there and could cause balance issues. Now we're talking safety. Also if this is so common why does it seem to have hit the G Polyglas on this run of tires but others haven't seen it?

 

There is no excuse for poor quality workmanship.
This thread should not need to exist.

When you are talking about $400-$500, pushing $600ea stupid tires( highway robbery, gouging) we should not be asking why these tires are crap quality!!

 

...sadly, quality control was an early victim of contemporary business practice...

 

Maybe my expectations are too high, but when purchased new in like say 1972, we didn't necessarily see that did we? I do not remember it anyway. Anyhow why should it be acceptable now when paying many hundreds % higher price? What do you do, take a fine paint brush and dab black dots all over the new tires? I'm not trying to make anyone feel bad for spending insane money on flawed reproduction tires, they have the money to burn, but since the pics were posted, my reflex reaction for being ripped off kicks into place for other people.

 

I know that back in the seventies and eighties, none of the white letter tires that I bought had that problem.

 

For whatever reason these tires are needed, a suitable modern US made radial should be allowed to take their place.
F'em if the manufacturers want to put garbage out there and overcharge for it.

 

This is an overly broad statement. There are still companies that insist on and deliver quality. Apple and Toyota come to mind.

 

The price to maintain a show GSX and a GS race car have both increased. Yes I paid the price for a set of Goodyear billboard tires. If I have to use a black marker to make them look good. That's okay. I'll do that. Quality products have declined unfortunately. The GS race car guys will pay the price for their cars to run .20 seconds faster.
Have fun and enjoy. Life is short.

 

I absolutely love the color of your GSX.

 

Thanks Ken. I am also a fan of the color. So glad it was the color that my brother ordered.

 

Having bought new cars in 1969 and 1970 , and several replacement polyglas tires that’s bs . Never happened .
And to nail clipper / sharpie a $2500 set of tires is a INSANE suggestion and probably would void the warranty . It’s a shame no one has any pride in their products anymore . I feel badly for the Kelsey customers .

 

Yep!
I think for almost 600 bucks you’d get a factory wheel of choice along with the tire