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Re: Pirelli Failures

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Subject: Re: Pirelli Failures
From: "Angela Hervey-Tennyson & Peter Westcott" <toobmany@bigpond.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 19:44:00 +1000
Reply-to: "Angela Hervey-Tennyson & Peter Westcott" <toobmany@bigpond.com>
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
>From Cinturatos to the P400s I currently use I've never had a failure with
a Pirelli.  

Peter
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> From: curt.onstott@orst.edu
> To: spridgets@autox.team.net
> Subject: Pirelli Failures
> Date: Tuesday, 21 September 1999 6:17
> 
> I put a brand new set of pirelli p4000's on my xj6 two years ago.  Friday
> one of them went flat.  The failure occured close to the sidewall between
> two treads.  It appears that the rubber was very thin here and cracked--
> exposing the steel belting and eventually causing the tire to go flat.
> 
> I have never had a steel belted tire go flat and I have used many in much
> worse conditions than my XJ6 sees.  Has anyone else seen a similar
failure
> with a pirelli and if they did were they able to get it fixed under
> warranty?

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