ice-capades Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 (edited) 10 hours ago, SoonerLS said: Who chooses Goodyear tires, anyway? It drives me crazy that Ford puts Pirelli tires on a Mustang GT. It's America's original pony car but the company cuts costs to the bone by putting foreign tires on the Mustang instead of Goodyear Eagles. I don't care if the Pirelli tires or another brand are made here. The Mustang should have American brand tires! Edited July 17, 2020 by ice-capades grammer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HotRunrGuy Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 24 minutes ago, ice-capades said: It drives me crazy that Ford puts Pirelli tires on a Mustang GT. It's America's original pony car but the company cuts costs to the bone by putting foreign tires on the Mustang instead of Goodyear Eagles. I don't care if the Pirelli tires or another brand are made here. The Mustang should have American brand tires! If you've ever seen the Pirelli calendar, you'd understand why someone in Procurement is doing business with them,,,,, HRG 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ice-capades Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 29 minutes ago, HotRunrGuy said: If you've ever seen the Pirelli calendar, you'd understand why someone in Procurement is doing business with them,,,,, HRG So what's the point about the Pirelli calendar? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HotRunrGuy Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 (edited) 14 minutes ago, ice-capades said: So what's the point about the Pirelli calendar? Never mind. It was a feeble attempt at humor, when vendors (like Pirelli) send out marketing materials to customers (like Ford) to keep their name & products under consideration. Kind of like the calendar I have hanging nearby, with the name of a Ford Dealership at the bottom. HRG Edited July 17, 2020 by HotRunrGuy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ice-capades Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 53 minutes ago, HotRunrGuy said: Never mind. It was a feeble attempt at humor, when vendors (like Pirelli) send out marketing materials to customers (like Ford) to keep their name & products under consideration. Kind of like the calendar I have hanging nearby, with the name of a Ford Dealership at the bottom. HRG Okay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akirby Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 1 hour ago, ice-capades said: Okay Google Pirelli girls.....but not at work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OX1 Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 17 hours ago, SoonerLS said: Who chooses Goodyear tires, anyway? This........ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T hawker Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 9 hours ago, ice-capades said: It drives me crazy that Ford puts Pirelli tires on a Mustang GT. It's America's original pony car but the company cuts costs to the bone by putting foreign tires on the Mustang instead of Goodyear Eagles. I don't care if the Pirelli tires or another brand are made here. The Mustang should have American brand tires! My 1988 Mustang came with Goodyear Eagles, funny, the back tires only lasted 15k miles... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoonerLS Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 12 hours ago, ice-capades said: It drives me crazy that Ford puts Pirelli tires on a Mustang GT. It's America's original pony car but the company cuts costs to the bone by putting foreign tires on the Mustang instead of Goodyear Eagles. I don't care if the Pirelli tires or another brand are made here. The Mustang should have American brand tires! Eh, my T-Bird SC had Goodyears on it when I bought it. Worst dang tires I ever had. I haven’t bought Goodyears in over 25 years because of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
70 Stang Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 I got 91,000 miles on my 2015 F-150 with Goodyear's......so I put another set on. I admit I was very surprised. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akirby Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 3 hours ago, 70 Stang said: I got 91,000 miles on my 2015 F-150 with Goodyear's......so I put another set on. I admit I was very surprised. I would never want to ride on tires that lasted 91k miles. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamweasel Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 On 7/17/2020 at 9:24 AM, ice-capades said: It drives me crazy that Ford puts Pirelli tires on a Mustang GT. It's America's original pony car but the company cuts costs to the bone by putting foreign tires on the Mustang instead of Goodyear Eagles. I don't care if the Pirelli tires or another brand are made here. The Mustang should have American brand tires! During my time at Ford in the 90's and 00's we had numerous issues with Goodyear. They were just not quality tires for the most part, and on the purchasing side they were a bunch of hard to work with jerks. (Constantly trying to re-negotiate after the supply agreements were signed, threatening to withhold tires from the plant if we did not agree, amongst other things.) With the Firestone fiasco and then Goodyear issues it really forced us to look at other brands. Don't know how this Ford/Goodyear relationship is now, though. On the P415 program I worked on (09-14 F-150) we even had to bring Hankook into the mix which I hated. They were cheap (both in price and quality) but we needed something for the lower end XL's and STX's to save a few bucks. Like with this Bronco / Goodyear Wrangler discussion we didn't make Hankook take their name off the tires but we did ensure only black outline letters were used. We would not put white outline letters of "Hankook" on our all-American F-150. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bzcat Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 (edited) never mind, wrong post Edited July 20, 2020 by bzcat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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