Thread: How to buy American made tires

Originally Posted by James48843

American made clothing-

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Allen Edmonds is the shoe I wear..100% American made and crafted....Same make of shoe worn by the POTUS.

Originally Posted by Buster

Allen Edmonds is the shoe I wear..100% American made and crafted....Same make of shoe worn by the POTUS.

Yikes-!

Nice shoes- but too rich for me. I buy Bates.

Look for the little American flag for the US made ones-
http://www.batesfootwear.com/US/en-u...ture_PTYP=1070

In honor of Labor Day- a reminder of how to buy American made Union-labor produced tires.

The U.S. Department of Transportation requires that all tires sold in the United States carry a code which shows the company and plant that made the tire. The code would look like this: DOT BE XX XXX XXX (where the Xs stand in for numbers and/or letters that are not part of the plant ID code)
The two symbols (either two letters or a letter and a number) which follow DOT indicate the company and the plant where a tire was manufactured. For example, the above code indicates a tire made by B.F. Goodrich in Tuscaloosa, AL. The following is a listing of U.S. unionized tire DOT codes. By comparing this list to the code on the tire you are buying, you can be certain you are getting a union-made (United Steelworkers - USW) tire.


Union-made tires made in the United States:
AN, BE, BF, CC, DA, DY, D2, E3, JJ, JE, JF, JN, JT, JP, MP, PL, MC, MD, MJ, MK, MM, PJ, PY, PT, PU, TA, UP, UT, VE, W1, YE, YU, Y7, 2C, 2M, 3M, 4D, 5D, and 8B


Union-made tires made in Canada:
JU, PC, and UK

When you buy an American-made Union Labor tire, you are helping to support DOMESTIC manufacturing in America, and a living wage for American workers.

Union members can also get a 10% discount on those American-made Union labor Goodyear tires with this coupon:


http://www.unionplus.org/autos-cars/...services#union

James we do appreciate your efforts to get us to buy union made American products.

I recalled having responded to this thread back in 2/09 when you started it. I went back and read it. I stated the lack of US made tires around and my own difficulty finding them. No solutions offered but it did turn in to a nice discussion of trade imbalance and solar panels. Almost forget, shoes and clothing.

I did end up buying a set of tires at a company owned Goodyear store. I did need to get it done and get on with the vacation. It turns out they were made in AL. The store manager was of little help in making sure I got US made tires. He couldn't tell me anything about the plant being union or not. The other customers in the store were either amused or irate because I was wasting time and they are just tires.

The point of this is that it is not as easy as you make it out to be, nor has this thread been of any help unless you want a US made solar panel. IIRC, when I bought my tires in 2009 at the Goodyear store, some of the featured brands were Yokohama, Hankook and Continental.

And while I am complaining, where was that coupon in 2009 when I needed it?
PO

A couple more "Made in the USA" links and information:

http://fuckyeahmadeinusa.tumblr.com/

and, for USA made clothing:

http://www.allamericanclothing.com/SFNT.html

It's easy to tell if a tire is made in the US or rather that it wasn't . Remember it's not the USA marking you are looking for but rather lack of any country of origin marking at all. US products aren't required to be marked but everyone elses are so look for the "Made In China" cast in there someplace and avoid them like the plague no matter what the US manufacturer is that owns the plant. Some of them have plants both here and China but in order to get imported the US owned Chinese junk tires have to be marked so you can see it someplace. Of course you can guess that they bury it as deeply as Customs law lets them get away with. Aside from the support American workers issue Chinese tires are legendary for cracking and dry rotting in extremely short order. They just don't hold up period by comparison. If you think it's hard getting decent car tires today try buying trailer tires lately. They all suck and few manage to last more than a few years .

Originally Posted by driz

It's easy to tell if a tire is made in the US or rather that it wasn't . Remember it's not the USA marking you are looking for but rather lack of any country of origin marking at all. US products aren't required to be marked but everyone elses are so look for the "Made In China" cast in there someplace and avoid them like the plague ... .

I thought so too, until I actually started looking, and discovered that at least at the tires at my local store (Discount Tire), NONE of the foreign tires had their country of origin labeled on them. Despite U.S. requirements that all products have a country of origin mark, NONE of the imported tires I looked at did so. I don't know if they are not required for some reason, or if the foreign tire manufacturers just aren't getting caught. Either way, I have found known Chinese made tires (and Singapore, and South Korea, etc, etc, etc) without a country of origin marking on them.

Yeah..I was looking at; Michelin, TOYO, Yokohama, Kumho, Sumitomo, Pirelli tires and couldn't tell where they were made..

Originally Posted by Buster

Yeah..I was looking at; Michelin, TOYO, Yokohama, Kumho, Sumitomo, Pirelli tires and couldn't tell where they were made..

Many Michelin tires are made by American "United Steelworkers Union" members in Alabama and Indiana.

BE	B. F. Goodrich, Tuscaloosa, AL (Michelin)	351L
BF	B. F. Goodrich, Woodburn, IN (Michelin)	715L
AN	B. F. Goodrich, Opelika, AL (Michelin)	753L

More:
http://www.boilermakers.org/resource...ion_made_tires

I'm sorry, but are you saying me buying 4 tires made here in america is going to make an inkling of a difference in our current financial sichiashun? I think that's some funny stuff there boyz, heck my government uniform is made overseas. You (and me) buying 4 new tires made here in the hopes of changing things is the equivalent of pecking at mount everest with a rockpick. I remember belonging to a union and some members would drive up and park on the jobsite in their Toyota and Isuzu trucks and they would be "threatened" not to park that "foreign" made car on a union jobsite, I would laugh to myself at those comments knowing those trucks were probably made or at least put together here in America in a plant using American workers.

Originally Posted by Afishegg

I'm sorry, but are you saying me buying 4 tires made here in america is going to make an inkling of a difference in our current financial sichiashun?

As I walked along the seashore
This young boy greeted me.

He was tossing a stranded starfish
Back into the deep blue sea.

I said, Tell me why you bother.
Why you waste your time this way?
There's a million stranded starfish.

Does it matter anyway?
And he said, "It matters to this one."