Roger,
I have just completed another weekend with my TR4 and continued to play with
the tire pressures. I can see no appreciable tire wear from a 2 day weekend.
These tires are too hard. Let me know when you get the new ones. I may be
game. Either way, thanks for responding and taking action. I'm pleased to see
it.
Bob Kramer
----- Original Message -----
From: Roger Kraus
To: BOB KRAMER ; Friends of Triumph
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 1:33 PM
Subject: Re: Tires - A032R - 205-60/15"
Hello and thanks for the info. I was a bit surprised about the Dunlop's
performance but I have informed Dunlop and they have responded! The tire we
have been getting is a HARDER version and they can make a SOFTER version for
us next year. I have told them that we no longer take any more Harder ones.
The question is when we can start to see the new softer tire. This will not
solve the problem of a 195/60R15 tire however. Dealing with Yokohama seems to
be very difficult and I would be open if someone can point me in the proper
direction as even the people from Yokohama in this country do not follow
through in my experience. Thanks for the input and please feel free to call or
e mail me anytime. Regards, Roger Kraus 1-800-510-7223
BOB KRAMER <rkramer3@austin.rr.com> wrote:
I would think that the lack of DOT approval would keep Yokohama from
producing that tire for sales here in the USA through the bigger vendors.
Why can't we get a specialty tire supplier to import a container load and
resell them? Bob Woodman, Roger Kraus, Sasco, are you listening? There is
market for a 195-60-15 or 205-60-15 that is being ignored. I have the
Dunlop 205-60-15 D84J's and I am unimpressed. I think the word is out on
them. I would try the 032Rs if they came available, especially if they
were
195's
.
Bob Kramer
rkramer3@austin.rr.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wes Dayton"
To: "Friends of Triumph"
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 6:51 PM
Subject: Tires - A032R - 205-60/15"
> Given I had opened my big mouth about this, I thought I'd better do
some
> c! hecking. I jut got off the phone with our Sydney Yokohama
performance
tire
> distributor and tried to see if we could figure out why these tires are
> available here but not in the U.S.
>
> His estimate was that they sell around 100-150 sets in this size aross
> Australia per year which is sufficient to justify importing them from
Japan.
> I would be very surprised if the market in the U.S. wasn't much bigger
than
> that; his estimate was that it's generally about ten times the size.
>
> What we did wonder was "are the U.S. tires manufactured locally"? It's
> quite possible that Yokohama hsa a plant somewhere in the U.S.
producing
> performance tires including the A032R? If that's so, maybe you're
runninvg
> into a case where they just don't make that size locally, and so
someone
> needs to organise importing them.
>
> Can't think of any other reason that makes sense.
>
> W! es Dayton - Sydney
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