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I was getting set to order the
B.F.Silvertowns from Coker yesterday.
The "salesperson" on the phone assured me my
"Chrysler" came from the factory with a "14" inch tire.
This was after I told him I had a 60
Imperial ,wanted the 15 inch Silvertown Bias, 2-3/8
whitewall etc,etc.
I was going to hang up and try again
but decided not to.
Kind of a blessing in disguise to tell the
truth.
If they have someone like that manning the
sales/ordering line ,can you imagine
who would be dealing with warranty
issues?.
No thanks.
Clay Smith
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 3:31
PM
Subject: Re: IML: Coker problems
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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