Re: Radials vs. bias

["Linnea Skoglund" <skoglund@lamar.colostate.edu>]

How strange.  I just this morning called the co-op to get prices for 
my trailer.  Bias tires are readily available and cost about $3 less 
than radials.  Guess I will go for the radials.

Linnea

 >My trailer came equipped with bias tires.  As they failed it became 
>more and more difficult to replace them.  Last year my company found 
>ONE bias tire in California
 >(I 'm in Iowa--Go figure the shipping cost).  When I had a flat 
>(unrepairable) a couple of weeks ago, of course there were no more 
>bias tires available, so they replaced it with a radial of the same 
>size.  We're not sure how this will work, but I wasn't prepared at 
>that point to buy 3 more new radials.  The mechanic said to go ahead 
>and replace the biases as they failed.  We'll see.  


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