[+Crusader+]

What?

I'm more offended by your lack of capitalization ... but ... seems Walmart might have switched your meds around too? What is it they gave you that is making you irrational, lady?

[cloiselle]

Originally Posted by TheHoff

What?

I'm more offended by your lack of capitalization ... but ... seems Walmart might have switched your meds around too? What is it they gave you that is making you irrational, lady?

TECH is WHERE ?



the duratracs do outperform these on road and in rain . there is no " wallmart" degree of quality to these, manufactured by goodyear in their own plants.

[+Crusader+]

Originally Posted by cloiselle

TECH is WHERE ?

Where some people who lack a sense of humor and social skills hang out?

[JBar]

Anyone who has purchased the tires have any additional updates or feedback? Please?

Jbar

[rustedxj]

Originally Posted by Prot

The problem with these tires is they are a Walmart Only tire. Walmart gets companies to take up cost cutting measures and put out a slightly inferior product so they can sell it at what appears to be a lower price than their competition. The product is only offered at Walmart because if it was offered anywhere else, it would be the same price. Bottom line is, you get what you pay for. Maybe those cut cutting measures don't amount to any real difference with these tires, but the marketing concept is somewhat annoying. We have three or five threads going on about this tire in various sections of this forum, all started by the same OP who for whatever reason is almost pimping these tires. I would like to see all of the threads consolidated, especially since they were all started by the same person.

I agree with you almost. Goodyear sells to anyone. This tire is just a different tire with a name that walmart will only have. A goodyear store will have it under a different name. Kinda like the sears stores here have the goodyear weather handlers...which were just regatta 2s. They just print up a different sidewall for them and they are done....walmart/sams club are like 50% of goodyears cash. So obviously they are gonna bend over backwards for them.

[Npfiremedic107]

I'll prolly get these tires at wal-mart this weekend. And yes I'll have wall-mart put them on and balance them. I personaly do not have a ton of money to be blowing in the best shops on the best products. I don't think it's fair either how you can come down on all wal-mart tire employees and lump them into the **** box... I'm sure these are hard working people people who are happy to have a job right now and like it was stated before they all use modern tools. I don't think they've balanced tires by feel for a long time now. Not to make this a Wal-Mart hate or love thread but it's important to remeber that evil corperation or not they still provide jobs for millions of americans.

And I agree wal-mart buys in bulk just like Sams. I don't think there out making exploding tires to save a few bucks. Please stop all the consperiousy talk. We have more important things to worrie about like the impending Zombie War you always hear about on here!

And another thing I would buy tires, drugs, hell let the guys from McDonalds do an alignment on my jeep before I ever bought jeans at a Wal-mart

But I'll let every one know how the tires are once I get them on. I'll even post pics. From what I've seen so far they look pretty good for every day use and a little off road action.

In the mean time if any one has some real info I'd be intrested too

[CB3]

OMG! I've been accused of degrading Walmart on the Internet! That is the funniest thing anyone has ever said to me. I seriously had some good laughs reading that.

My concerns about Walmart's mechanical services, and skilled services in general, are well founded, well documented, and anyone with much experience doing business at Walmart knows those concerns are well founded. Also, those concerns do relate to this tire since it's Walmart who is likely to mount, balance, rotate, and possibly do alignments. The skills and care of the techs is as important as the product itself. Duh. So my comments were not off topic. They go right to the heart of the matter. It's the quality of the entire experience that matters. The entire experience means the tire and skill and care of the technicians who mount, balance, rotate, and do alignments.

The idea that I could be degrading Walmart by doubting their skilled employees/technicians is laughable.

The tire itself does look good to me though. I like it.

It's interesting that, as Hoff alluded to, the Walmart fans in this thread make posts without proper capitalization, punctuation, or complete sentences. Is that sad, funny, or informative?

Enough said. Do as you please. I don't care anymore.

[+Crusader+]

I personally LOVE Walmart ... I save money by shopping there, and I spend it elsewhere. Not saying I agree with every aspect, as I don't care to feed my dog Chinese dog-treats, but ... I don't buy those.

As far as installing tires though, I would have no problem using Walmart. I find with MOST tire shops I need to observe anyway to make sure its right. One time I was at a high dollar tire shop and the tech accidentally ejected my brand new rim off of the mounting machine and down onto the wheel lip of my other brand new wheel. Stuff happens, he didn't intend to do it. I'm just laying that out because although every other aspect of the service was top notch, that one mistake made the whole experience bad.

Walmart is what it is, and most places you go are not going to take special care because its you, you're just car number 9 before lunch break.

[M2LJ]

CB3, give it a rest, will ya? This thread is about the Goodyear Wrangler Authority tires and not about the pharmacists at Walmart. If you have an issue with the store, than take the tires somewhere else. But the vast majority of us are looking for info on how well these tires perform as they appear to be some of the best looking ATs available.

By the way, the biggest mistakes I have had getting tires worked on has been at tire stores! We all know that anyone can make mistakes, and the only way you can be sure something is done to your liking is to do it yourself. Even then, mistakes can happen.

So, hopefully this thread will stay focused on the topic; and we can get some firsthand feedback from those who have run these tires...

[TowMaster]

Thats fantastic, we are all arguing over the nature of marketing between walmart and Goodyear on a thread about a new tire put out. Does anyone have useful information on the quality and performance of these tires?

[cloiselle]

Originally Posted by TowMaster

Thats fantastic, we are all arguing over the nature of marketing between walmart and Goodyear on a thread about a new tire put out. Does anyone have useful information on the quality and performance of these tires?

go back and read the thread a few of us have stated personal or first hand experience with these tires and several other goodyear tires sold at wallmart, both on and offroad impressions to boot...

[blackTJosh]

Originally Posted by Hilldweller

I saw them up-close at Wallyworld on Saturday; they look much more AT in person. The sidewalls also seemed less than robust.

I just held up a pic of the new duratracs next to the authoritys at walmart. The gaps in the center of the authority are much bigger and look more mt than the new duratracs

[Fargo]

Originally Posted by blackTJosh

I just held up a pic of the new duratracs next to the authoritys at walmart. The gaps in the center of the authority are much bigger and look more mt than the new duratracs

I wouldn't rely too much on holding up a picture to a real tire. For one thing different sized tires have different sized treads. So if your comparing the two tires you need to compare identical sized tires side by side. Also, keep in mind that with modern tires the tread size changes as you go around the tire. So at one point on the tire you might see very small lugs, but halfway around the other side of the tire you might see some nice big meaty lugs. This is done to keep road noise down. So if you really want to compare two tires you should really have the same size side by side and give them a turn to find where each tire has the largest and smallest lugs. Then you can compare from there.

[blackTJosh]

Originally Posted by Fargo

I wouldn't rely too much on holding up a picture to a real tire. For one thing different sized tires have different sized treads. So if your comparing the two tires you need to compare identical sized tires side by side. Also, keep in mind that with modern tires the tread size changes as you go around the tire. So at one point on the tire you might see very small lugs, but halfway around the other side of the tire you might see some nice big meaty lugs. This is done to keep road noise down. So if you really want to compare two tires you should really have the same size side by side and give them a turn to find where each tire has the largest and smallest lugs. Then you can compare from there.

Tread pattern is obviously more aggressive on these than the duratracs. The first time I saw these at the store last week I thought they were duratracs but today I could see a blatant difference. I'm prob going to go get a set if these tomorrow. Had planned on getting duratracs but these seem to be between the duratracs and a mt which is what sold me

[+Crusader+]

Originally Posted by blackTJosh

I just held up a pic of the new duratracs next to the authoritys at walmart. The gaps in the center of the authority are much bigger and look more mt than the new duratracs

To me, the Duratrac has far more biting edges to its design. Which leads me to believe it is a better performer all around ... and even in mud where it may have smaller voids (conjecture) to these Authority's, but the Duratrac also has that pattern in the void areas to fight unwanted adhesion by means of suction, while also giving more biting edges. I would SPECULATE that the Duratrac would be a better tire, not to say this one is bad, because I know nothing about it.