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"Seemingly" same tire with different specs?
Something from a friend who works for a tire company might explain it?
Car companies sometimes work together with tire companies to develop a tire especially for a particular car. You can do that if you're going to buy 100,000 tires. They don't start from scratch, they take an existing tire like ProContact, and maybe use a slightly different rubber compound, or somehow they tweak it a little for better performance at the expense of treadwear.
So you might have one "custom" verson of ProContact that was developed for VW, and another "custom" verson of ProContact that was developed for Volvo, or for someone else. They have the same label molded into the sidewall but they're different somehow.
edit: I should say they have the same name in the sidewall, but they have to change the load-rating or the UTQG treadwear, if that's different.
->Posting last edited on Mon, 8 Oct 2012 05:56:16.
Posts in this Thread:
- The validity of online reviews., dmz789qqq, Fri, 5 Oct 2012 18:28:33
- Continentals, JohnA , Sun, 7 Oct 2012 05:49:12
- ExtremeContact DW, ryan , Sun, 7 Oct 2012 15:16:03
- Very true, SWEDECAR , Sun, 7 Oct 2012 09:40:57
- Load Rating?, Snowmobile , Tue, 9 Oct 2012 07:24:50
- ContiProContact, JohnA , Tue, 9 Oct 2012 06:08:42
- Generals, Steve T., Mon, 8 Oct 2012 07:35:56
- Re: Very true, JimBlake , Mon, 8 Oct 2012 05:53:08 <-- Viewing This Message
- Good example, dmz789qqq, Sun, 7 Oct 2012 06:35:42
- Re: The validity of online reviews., Ron, Sun, 7 Oct 2012 04:35:47
- Re: The validity of online reviews., Kristjan , Sat, 6 Oct 2012 23:58:11
- Online reviews: YMMV, Noel, Sat, 6 Oct 2012 15:14:57
- I was confused, MI-Roger , Sat, 6 Oct 2012 07:09:47
- I rate your review 3 smoking turbos out of 5., Snowmobile , Sat, 6 Oct 2012 05:19:05
- I ***HIGHLY*** rate the above post!! n/m, Skip, Fri, 5 Oct 2012 20:16:39
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