as if that joke hasn't been played to death...
since this thread jumped the shark about 2 months ago...
I remember that whole deal with Explorers and Firestone tires....I think the whole deal was a crock of pooh. People were just getting into buying SUVs yet the chassis's were set up as trucks were in those days live axle rear, high CoG, good ground clearance, with passenger truck tires, which were not speed rated by any stretch of the imagination. Pretty soon soccer mom who doesnt even know how to check airpressure in her tires, is driving this new explorer thingy at 80 mph down the highway, swerving back and forth like a Camry, with 10 psi air pressure. Tire blows out and now its everybodies fault but the driver's. Now we have Explorers without any offroad ground clearance and stupid tire pressure monitoring systems that are way too expensive because of a handful of idiots that don't know how to check tire pressure.
I had a set of tires on my Landcruiser FJ40 that were of the same family of tires as the Firestones OEMs on the explorers. They were called into a class action lawsuit and I was contacted if i wanted to partake in the class action. I wrote a letter to the court say HECK NO, throw this lawsuit out because there wasnt anything wrong with the tires, they weren't meant for highway speeds and low tire pressure.
