I have coker bias ply on my A, Have driven it up to six hours at a time at 70 mph, no problems at all. Had an issue with the shape of the white wall when I purchased them, Coker replaced the tire with no h***le. Great service.
I have bought and driven on both bias cokers and the coker cl***ic radials. The bias tires seemed to need shaved but I never got it done before I sold the car. The coker cl***ics ****ed......sorry but everyone in my club that has ran a set of these in the last ten years has had seperation problems .....I've lost 3...2 on one trip. A buddy had one seperate last weekend. Another had a brand new set and one came apart. I can't speak for the other wide white radials Coker sells....we have bought some of the silvertown radials for a car but haven't got any miles on it yet.
Thanks to every one who has replied. I appreciate it. I have driven well over a million miles on Bias tires and the same on Radials. I have had more separations with Radials than any other type. All of us have expensive hot rods and want the best safety for the bucks without problems. I raced in the 50's 60's at very high speeds on bias and not near the problems as with radials but I get more mileage out of the radials. I have never used Cokers and It seems the replies here indicate more yes than no so I will give them a try and as long as they make any defects good you can't go wrong.
my buddy just had a slivertown blowout on the freeway last week on his 36 roadster, now it's in the shop getting a new fender and paint
Our focus changed after the Firestone issues a few years ago. There is now an insulation wrap between the tread and steel belt. The process is slower, but the tire is more secure in the long run. I don't work for Coker, but they do what they can to get good tires out there and any product giving them issues like you say, they would have to be all over it or die. That's the biz these days.
The BFGs and Goodyears we install here at work are all USA made. Its not hard to find USA made tires.
COKER ****ED ME! i broke an axle on my 54, when my axle tried to slide out my tire scuffed my inner fenderwell. the tire had about 3000 miles on it, i sent it back (i had the road hazard warranty) and they told me the tire only had 3mm of tread left! it was brand new still!!
he bought the car last year ,he said the tire was about 5 yrs old,he was on the way home from a show and the car started viberating then the tire blew out,he said it was the side wall
I've had Coker bias on 3 or 4 cars and never had a lick of trouble with them. I've never had a problem so no feedback there but they are real good people to deal with as far as I am concerned.
I have never had a problem out of Coker tires, but my dad had one www start to turn brown and no matter what we did to clean it it would still be brown. I called them up explained the problem and they asked how many I wanted to replace and sent them to me for the price of the frieght. This was after owning the tires for 3 or 4 years, thats what I call stand up service!!!
Three sets... no problems. bought the last set using the alliance discount. Got a great deal. Ordered one day and Fed-X delivered them within 48 hours. Rich
I hate tire problems and when you do and they do the right thing it resolves any hard feelings. I had a tire go down on my 34 and went down the next day and had all new Michelins put on. I have new steel wheels for my 33 and in need of new tires and that's the reason for my post. The only thing not addressed here is how many sales at Cokers versus bad tires? Every Mfg. has defects and problems with there products and I guess the key here is what's the percentage of defects and how they deal with you. Thanks for all the input and opinions
Ive been running Coker bias plies for about 12 years without a single problem! Damn, I just went and jinxed the whole thing! As of last week there have been 3 guys in our club that have had trouble with Coker Cl***ic wide white radials. One was a blowout and the others were the belts coming apart causing the tire to distort to the point that the car wasnt safe to drive at Highway speeds. Two of them have had more than 1 tire go bad (at different times). None of these cars were true daily drivers, but they were driven alot. Im not a big fan of radials on a traditional car anyhow, so I will just stay with my outdated, unsafe, should've been outlawed, bias plies!!
No matter how large we know this board is, it's small in comparison to the entire industry. All products are prone to defects from time to time. We use Cokers on cars worth a dozen Deuce coupes and have zero failure issues. One car has a 16yr old set on it, and although it's a "kept" car the tires stay nice and round after off season storage and still look new minus a few thousand miles of wear. Got a set on order for a new Packard restoration right now. We like em.
"Bias ply tyres should have been out lawed decades ago. Safety is more important than cool." With that logic so should be unshrouded cooling fans, non-shielded exhaust pipes, any tranmission pertruding into the ****pit, clear red fuel line, copper lines on anything but vaccuum sources. I guess that sums pretty much sums up 50% of the parts on a good of the hot rods on this site. Jeez, let's lighten up a notch.
I was informed that the Goodyear Front runner Landspeed type tires were made in Columbia or some such SA county. I understand that they are now being made here. But these are all very short runs for a tire maker. Hard for a large US maker to tool for a 100 tire run.
I've run them for years as well, never a flat or failure, BUT: I usually run a 7:50-16 out back, and the run-out of the tread was always a bit too much.. My local race-tire shop (Kraus) has a tire lathe, and for a few bucks would shave just enough to remove the run-out, and it really made a world of dif. The fronts at 4,50-16 were a little better but would still have them trued up, eliminates tire-hop at high speeds..
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