Re: Dunlop Tires

[John Karasaki <johkar@teleport.com>]

I heard this rumor at Pike's Peak, too.  Can anyone verify if the SP8000
are also beening phased out?


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>From: Matthew Harrison <Matthew_Harrison@baylor.edu>
>Subject: Re: Dunlop Tires
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>the dunlops (SP8000) are also being discontinued to the best of my
knowledge as
>my "friend" could not get his set replaced and had to buy SP9000....for the
>money of the SP9000 you can almost get SO-2's or *yuck* michelins
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>matt
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>Gregor Diseth wrote:
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>> On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Todd Jacobs wrote:
>>
>> > hi all,
>> > I just ordered some new D40M2 tires from my local tire dealer. cause the
>> > nylon bands are showing in my goodyear GS-Cs(good tire). a couple of
>> > days later when one of my goodyears got a nail in it (total
>> > coincidence). i went to go have it fixed and there was about 4 chunks of
>> > glass in the tire. they checked to see if the dunlop tires were in yet.
>> > so they called dunlop and i guess the D40M2 is discontinued. so I am
>> > going to get some SP sport 8000 instead for the same price. I got
>> > 225/50ZR15 for my cookie cutters. they should be here friday, I can't
>> > wait. Does any one have any experience on these tires? I have heard good
>> > things about them. thanks for the insight.
>>
>> The 8000's are an updated version of the old, but venerable D40M2 line.  I
>> have the D40's, and they are terrific for street use, and they are
>> inexpensive. The 8000's can only be better.  I just looked in my current
>> issue of European Car magazine, and Discount Tire Direct (www.tires.com)
>> still carries the D40's.. your size is $105 each, and they charge about
>> $20 to ship them to whoever you choose to install them.
>>
>>  -Gregor
>>
>>    1989 944 2.7 Schwarz/dunkel-rose.  http://www.efn.org/~gsdiseth/944.html
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