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I am having the same problems with my Cokers on the
60 Imperial. With my tires the black inner wall is going bad too. The tires are
only 3 years old but look like they are 33 !.
However not all the tires are showing the same
problem, The tread shows little wear too.Even so the quality of the Tire does
give me some concern, as they should not be doing this at 3 years of
age.
Regards
Dave
60 Le Baron Sedan.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 7:17
PM
Subject: Re: IML: Coker problems
Hello all:
I currently have a
set of Cokers on my 61 Imperial. The problem I have with all four of them is,
where the tire bead meets the rim of the wheel, the white wall is breaking and
seperating from the tire, as if I have a phoney white wall like the ones that
were used many years ago after you would buy a set of black walls and then
install the seperate flipper white wall. So far, I am not getting any help
from Coker to get it corrected. I bought the tires thru America's Tire Co. in
Indio, Calif. We have bought at least 20 sets of tires since they opened about
7 years ago. Still pursuing the matter, but I have a lot of other things of
higher priorty, so must get back to this one very soon as I truly love the
better ride and control they have over the bias. A bad feature of bias today
is mainly from what has been done to the pavement we drive on. Bias was ok, if
the freeways were not grooved for water as they do so much for today. The bias
follows these grooves constantly. I am sure I probably drive Imperials more
than anyone else out here. I recently drove the 61 LeBaron from Calif to
Darlington, S.C. and I tow cars on trailers, and parts to shows in utility
trailers. I have been at Chryslers at Carlisle and the Mopar Nationals and
other shows back East in them with trailers in the past 19 years. The LeBaron
has 460,000 miles and I just assembled the engine for another couple hundred
thousand. It is going to Denver the 20th of April. My four grandkids love
riding in it. The wife wants to take it over her new 300M. That could be a
good thing! Love to all Imperial owners and keep driving
those Imperials and the Chrysler Imperials, (pre
55). Joe Machado
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