Re: [Chrysler300] radial tires for a 300F

["Thomas Miller" <tfm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Patrick,

You'll get a plethora of opinions widely distributed across the continuum of the Coker radials being a total piece of crap, to "wow, they're great and I've never had a problem with them"!  

I'll share my experiences with the Coker Classic Wide Whitewalls and my '57 300C.  I've owned this car for about 15 years.  In the late 90s, the largest 14" radial wide white that Coker produced was a 225/75r14.  I purchased an entire set of these tires @ around $125 ea. back then.  Within a couple of years and less than 2,000 miles, 3 of the 4 tires suffered severe tread separation.  After a little finagling with the folks at Coker, they not only made good on the purchase price of all 4 of these tires, traded me up to the then available 235/75r14 size in stock and even honored the Forward Look website 10% discount.  

These tires are still on the car today.  I don't drive this car nearly as much as I'd like, but I can say that the tire Coker is producing now does *NOT* seem to have the tread separation issues of the older series I first used.  But, boy oh boy have these tires gone up in price.  I think I paid ~$125 ea. way back when for the original 225/75r14s.  A few years later, the 235/75r14s as I remember were about $175.  I just looked at Coker's web site and see they're bringing $277 a skin today.....   (wow) 

All in all, if you like the way your F drives on bias plys, you'll love it on radials.  I'd also urge you to put icing on the cake and bolt on some KYB shocks as well.  You'll be amazed at how our "whale" sized cars can feel quite nimble and responsive!  :-)  Take care....

Best Regards,

Thomas F. Miller
tfm@xxxxxxxxxxxx
'57 300C, '70 440+6 'Cuda

>>> Patrick Meehan <meehan200@xxxxxxxxx> 9/18/2012 7:29 PM >>>
  
i'm new to my 300F hardtop.  it's got 72k original miles and drives like a dream.  however, i'm a little scared of the bias ply tires.  they don't handle well and i'm afraid of how old they may be.
is it sacreligious to put coker classic radials on a 300F???  this isn't a show car; it's an immaculate original survivor and i love driving it...but i'm afraid sometimes of the non-radial handling.  what does the crew here recommend?
thanks
Patrick

[Non-text portions of this message have been remove

Pat

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]



------------------------------------

To send a message to this group, send an email to:
Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or
go to http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/Chrysler300/join and select the "Leave Group" button

For list server instructions, go to http://www.chrysler300club.com/yahoolist/inst.htm

For archives go to http://www.forwardlook.net/300-archive/search.htm#querylangYahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Chrysler300/

<*> Your email settings:
    Individual Email | Traditional

<*> To change settings online go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Chrysler300/join
    (Yahoo! ID required)

<*> To change settings via email:
    Chrysler300-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Chrysler300-fullfeatured@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
    Chrysler300-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
    http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/