Another reason to shun Chinese tires

by **The Roadie** » Mon Nov 17, 2014 10:55 am

A counterfeiting gang building knock-off tires with stolen molds, imported into the US, everybody denying they're responsible. No recall unless they have some proven safety-related problem. Merely being poor tires not enough for the feds to act.

https://autos.yahoo.com/news/counterfei ... 00450.html

by **bartonmd** » Mon Nov 17, 2014 11:45 am

Surprised face --> :-|

Mike

YouTube Videos · by **Trail X** » Mon Nov 17, 2014 1:12 pm

Yeah, I had seen some Chinese and Taiwanese tires when I was doing my search, I made sure to stay away from them, simply for the fact of unknown quality.

For instance, Maxxis makes a tire called the buckshot mudder. There's also a Chinese company called BCT that also makes a buckshot tire, that looks nearly identical.

by **Opeth** » Mon Nov 17, 2014 6:53 pm

I've never been one to use Chinese knock offs to save a couple bucks on tires. Good to know though.

by **HARDTRAILZ** » Tue Nov 18, 2014 1:29 pm

No surprise, but I will say that buckshot mudders have been around since I was in high school and have been a farmboy/redneck standard round here

YouTube Videos · by **Trail X** » Tue Nov 18, 2014 2:30 pm

I'm sure those are the Maxxis versions. The BCT buckshots are new to the market, and by simply looking at their marketing, they hide the fact that they are independant of Maxxis, and infact sell their slightly different tire tread as an upgrade to the original.

by **HARDTRAILZ** » Tue Nov 18, 2014 2:39 pm

BCT = Bullshit Chinese Trash ???

by **Cable810** » Tue Nov 18, 2014 10:56 pm

ROFL ^

by **Speed** » Sat Nov 22, 2014 6:27 pm

Don't have a ton of sympathy for a company that outsources to China. It's not like intellectual property theft hasn't been documented for decades! This is one of those, "I told you so" moments...

by **AA1PR** » Sun Nov 23, 2014 1:50 am

they have no quality controls standards over there

look at all the cheap ham radios they import for example

MY Youtube Channel · by **TBYODA** » Sun Nov 23, 2014 12:33 pm

And what make them keep importing to the U.S.? Everyone that keep buying both.

by **AA1PR** » Sun Nov 23, 2014 11:33 pm

TBYODA wrote:And what make them keep importing to the U.S.? Everyone that keep buying both.

Yes American greed, looking to save a buck

YouTube Videos · by **Trail X** » Sun Nov 23, 2014 11:37 pm

It's built into the American psyche that we need a bunch of stuff, and the only way to get that is to do so cheaply. The European mentality is kinda opposite, save up, get the good stuff, keep it forever. It will take a culture shift for us to adopt quality over quantity. There will always be a market for cheap crap though.

by **KE7WOX** » Tue Dec 02, 2014 11:50 pm

MY Youtube Channel · by **TBYODA** » Tue Dec 02, 2014 11:54 pm

LMAO! Well that is what we get for having everything made over there.

by **Marineguy** » Wed Jan 21, 2015 11:08 pm

Trail X wrote:It's built into the American psyche that we need a bunch of stuff, and the only way to get that is to do so cheaply. The European mentality is kinda opposite, save up, get the good stuff, keep it forever. It will take a culture shift for us to adopt quality over quantity. There will always be a market for cheap crap though.

Guess I have more European blood left in me than I thought, having just celebrated on Facebook my Yukon's achievement of rolling through 150k, every mile put on by me or my wife. The family members who criticized that substantial purchase by a 28 year old with his first kid on they way are now ready to trade the second shitty vehicle they've owned over the same period. Mine still looks like new.
I don't buy Chinese unless there is no other option. Not only are their products of inferior quality, manufactured with no regard for humanity or the environment, but they are our biggest strategic adversary. Your new flatscreen will help pay for their F-35 clone's look-down/ shoot-down radar.

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