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I deal with this all the time with my suppliers.

"Why don't you stock "X"?"

"We don't sell enough of "X" to warrant stocking it."

"How can you possibly expect to sell it if people can't get it?"

Vredistein Sportrac 5 tires have been like that-- harder to get than shards of the true cross, and not stocked by anybody because "they just don't sell". They can't be stocked unless people buy them, and people can't buy them so they end up looking for the best second-best AS tire they can find.

I used to be a tire cretin, just buying whatever was on the tire-store's shelf and living with it. But a few years back, I took the magazines' advice and tried summer tires. It was a freak accident that I was able to find, order, and receive them. I think I got the last 4 in the country at that time. I put them on the car and was blown away.

All the tire-hype in magazines is correct. Tires make more difference in the handling of a car than almost any other variable. Maybe not as much as the jump from swing-arm to IRS, but close. You cannot possibly understand until you try a set.

The fact that these particular tires are not expensive is a near miracle. If they'd keep on a shelf, I'd buy 4 sets just to have. As it stands, I've actually thought of getting them vacuum sealed to see how it would go. Good stuff like this often goes away when people can't get it and manufacturers can't sell it as a result.

Kudos to Danny and Carey for getting Tire Rack to stock them. My advice to the forum-- buy a set. You have no idea what you've been missing.

Last edited by Stan Galat
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