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@Sacto Mitch - yeah, the market is tiny.

T  i  n  y.

I get that. But I have this conversation on a daily basis with a local supply house that refuses to stock any parts. If the metric for stocking a thing is how many you sold last year, but you didn't stock the thing ever - how can you have a reasonable expectation of selling enough parts to begin stocking them? In the case of the supply house, when I need parts I need them today (not in a week, not in 4 days, not tomorrow). If the parts aren't on the shelf, they are not going to sell them - not now, not ever. The metric has to be the potential market, not the historical one.

It's the same thing with these tires. Availability was always terrible. Guys who wanted them couldn't get them, and moved on to something else. Vredestein has an importer into the US who did a terrible job with these tires. If Max Hoffman had treated  Porsche like this, they'd still be a boutique European brand building tractors to pay the bills.

They should have cost $150/tire instead of $60, but they should have been in stock and ready to go in all of the popular 15 and 16 inch sizes. If they had been, the importer would have made more money on every tire, and had a reason to stock them.

It vexes me, because I don't want a period-correct 15" tire (XZX) - I want a modern summer tire in sizes that are useful to me: AND WE HAD IT, kinda'/sotra', a little bit, if you could find the needle in the haystack.

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