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Vortex
10-31-2009, 02:55 PM
Didnt know til today BF Goodrich tires are actually Michelins. Guess everyone knew that but me.
cruzer
10-31-2009, 02:57 PM
I didn't--you are not alone:)
LANDY
10-31-2009, 03:03 PM
Didnt know til today BF Goodrich tires are actually Michelins. Guess everyone knew that but me.
wtf! news to me
Hacklemerc
10-31-2009, 03:05 PM
same here. Never new that..
SpartaPerformance
10-31-2009, 06:22 PM
Yup Michelin owns BFG and Uniroyal <- French
Goodyear owns Dunlop, Kelly Springfield, Douglas, Republic. <-American
Continental owns General <- German
I can go on with other tire companies it will make your head spin. Cooper is the only independent American tire company but it does have an affiliation with Pirelli for distribution.
Stranger in the Black Sedan
10-31-2009, 10:04 PM
Just because they are divisions of the same company doesn't mean the tires are at all similar or are made in the same country even
Motorhead350
11-01-2009, 12:44 AM
It was posted here months ago.
SC Cheesehead
11-01-2009, 10:29 AM
Just because they are divisions of the same company doesn't mean the tires are at all similar or are made in the same country even

Yup.

If they built BFGs like they do Michelins we'd have ourselves a decent tire, IMO.
duhtroll
11-01-2009, 10:44 AM
It was posted here years ago.

Fixed that for ya.
JUST 1BULLITT
11-01-2009, 11:48 AM
I never realized that either!~ :sleepy: It's hard to keep up with ALL the corporate bankruptcies/change overs and absorbtions etc. :shake: (I actually toured the Ardmore, OK Michelin Plant earlier this year; it USED to be a UniRoyal Plant...as has already been said, Michelin has bought them too...maybe we'll get better quality in our "BFGs" as has been said too...)
imorb1994
11-01-2009, 11:59 AM
I never realized that either!~ :sleepy: It's hard to keep up with ALL the corporate bankruptcies/change overs and absorbtions etc. :shake: (I actually toured the Ardmore, OK Michelin Plant earlier this year; it USED to be a UniRoyal Plant...as has already been said, Michelin has bought them too...maybe we'll get better quality in our "BFGs" as has been said too...)
Don't know why this would happen. BFG has been owned by Michelin for years, long before the MM was in production(1988)
SC Cheesehead
11-01-2009, 12:03 PM
Don't know why this would happen. BFG has been owned by Michelin for years, long before the MM was in production(1988)

Yup, the OEM BFG KDWS tires were/are/will always be crap, no matter that Michelin owns the brand.
252life
11-01-2009, 10:03 PM
A way to know if the tire is a real Michelin tire is if the bead of the tire is tight and requires more air to pop on to the rim, it also makes a higher noise when the bead pops into place.
Motorhead350
11-02-2009, 02:23 AM
Fixed that for ya.

I didn't say an amount of months that was less than a year. I could have meant 36 months. ;)

Same thing.

Carry on! :burnout:
Stranger in the Black Sedan
11-02-2009, 05:43 AM
The KDW does pop extremely tight compared to other tires and are hard to dismount but I believe it to be just a product of the fact that it has an extremely reinforced sidewall.