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Posted by Rob in Atlanta [Email] (more from Rob in Atlanta) on Tue, 17 Aug 2004 07:21:26 Share Post by Email
In Reply to: Re: Costco Tires now with Nitrogen, t_mokes, Mon, 16 Aug 2004 12:55:12
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COSTCO probably has a policy to only install tires of the same or higher speed rating as OEM as an anti-lawsuit measure. I can here the examination in Court now -

Q: Are you telling me you installed a tire that was of a lesser speed rating than what came on the car as original equipment?

A: Yes. The customer specifically asked for a tire with a lower speed rating.

Q: But you had all this information about what was OEM equipment on the vehicle, right?

A: Yes, of course. We have a computerized database that tells us exactly what tire came on the car originally - it takes only a second to look up the information.

Q: Yet, nonetheless, you installed an inferior tire on the vehicle?

A: It wasn't inferior, just of a lesser speed rating.

Q: That doesn't answer the question. You knew the tire might fail if the customer took his vehicle above the speed rating for the tire you installed, right?

A: Of course, but the rating for an H-rated tire is far above the legal speed limits.

Q: So when the customer's tire blew out on the interstate and his vehicle slammed into the cement overpass embankment, killing all on board, you were to blame for installing a tire which was of a lesser quality than that specified by the car's manufacturer?

A: Well.... that's not realy true......

Q: That doesn't answer my question!

[Objection!!]

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Hehehe. Seriously.... I'm sure they do that as some sort of protection against negligence claims. It sucks, but we have only ourselves to blame for allowing the run away litigation lottery to continue. [gets off soapbox] Sorry for the rant.

Rob in Atlanta
'98 900S, 5-Door, Manual, 167K miles

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