onanysunday
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- May 7, 2021
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So I have this neat 31 Chevy all steel original bodied car. Has a 241 baby hemi with a late model 4 speed auto. hand built Headers, Holley FI, pumpkin style diff, 4 wheel discs. Super cool car and a blast to drive. Time for tires and I have been put through the ringer the last couple of weeks. So it has early to mid 40s style artillery wheels powdercoated red and vintage hub caps from that era. Front tires are 5.50/16s and rears are 7.00/16s. Very specific tire that only Coker tire makes. They are called the Coker classics. So I get a first set from Coker and the date codes on the fronts are 1.5 years old but the rears are 4.5 years old. Yes new tires sitting that long. Discount says replace tires at 6 years but in AZ I replace everything at 5 years. (Trailer tires at 4 years.) Typically new tires have date codes from 6-10 months old by the time you get them. So then I thought I will put some Torque thrusts on there. Not only are they 15s but they are to wide and the offset won't work. So I am really stuck. Both sets of new rears are very soft. These things have probably been sitting in a warehouse in Tennessee the whole time. After the second set the guy at Coker was supposed to talk to his warehouse to look at date codes. Was not holding my breath. Called him back today 10 days later and did not even remember me. Then says he is waiting for the warehouse to call him. How about some initiative to make a customer happy. Told him send me fed ex labels to return all of it and I am just disgusted. Any way I can't really find a different wheel with the correct offset that will fit on this car. And I really do like the wheels and tires. They are not cheap at $1500 for the set of tires. So do I just run these things for around 4 years which would be 8 years old? New fronts certainly are fresher at 1.5 years old. What say you.
