Mickey Thompson gave me some junk ET Street Radials - Lateral-g Forums

patriotformula · #1 06-03-2008, 03:10 PM

Let me start by saying I was a HUGE fan of Mickey Thompsons ET Street Radials... Well I bought a set about a month ago brand new (won't name the sponsor because they've tried to help me)... I have put just shy of 800 miles on them and about 3-4 track passes... :ripped:

Well lately I have noticed them feathering up something terrible and they actually fall apart as I drive down the road. My buddy who was following me a week or so ago said that as I drove through town it would just leave black marks on the road quite often (and no i wasnt doing a burnout) With 800 miles on my car they are almost completely gone (treads are almost flat with the rest of the tire). I'm thinking I have a bad set of tires because my buddy who bought them at the same time as me and has taken his car to the track more and cruises with me everytime we go out still has more then half tread left... and he's driving around on a spool!

Now I'm not one to complain and throw a big fit but this is unheard of as my last set went for about 7000 miles and I put about 30-40 track passes and tons of burnouts on them. So I called Mickey Thompson Monday and have got nothing but the run around. There customer service is piss poor and they have no care in the world for the little guy (who just paid $400 for a set of tires and would intend to buy them as every set in the future). The sales rep even said that these should get 3-5000 miles. Had I got that much out of them I'd be MORE then happy. Hell I would have bought a regular set of ET streets had I known these were gonna wear out so fast! The next representative claimed that my car was "too heavy, and the heat from the road was ruining the tires"... Sounds like a runaround to me. If this was true my car which weighed more last year would have done the same thing as they did this year to the tires. Anyways I'm getting nowhere so far. Can anyone help me,

I dont have the money to buy another $400 set of tires that I thought would last me most of the year as it is. If you could supply me with an email/phone number of someone higher up in the company or anyone that could help that'd be great!

Heres a few pictures of these junk defective tires i got... remember this is after only 800 miles... and about 4 track passes!

Let me start by saying I was a HUGE fan of Mickey Thompsons ET Street Radials... Well I bought a set about a month ago brand new (won't name the sponsor because they've tried to help me)... I have put just shy of 800 miles on them and about 3-4 track passes... :ripped:

Well lately I have noticed them feathering up something terrible and they actually fall apart as I drive down the road. My buddy who was following me a week or so ago said that as I drove through town it would just leave black marks on the road quite often (and no i wasnt doing a burnout) With 800 miles on my car they are almost completely gone (treads are almost flat with the rest of the tire). I'm thinking I have a bad set of tires because my buddy who bought them at the same time as me and has taken his car to the track more and cruises with me everytime we go out still has more then half tread left... and he's driving around on a spool!

Now I'm not one to complain and throw a big fit but this is unheard of as my last set went for about 7000 miles and I put about 30-40 track passes and tons of burnouts on them. So I called Mickey Thompson Monday and have got nothing but the run around. There customer service is piss poor and they have no care in the world for the little guy (who just paid $400 for a set of tires and would intend to buy them as every set in the future). The sales rep even said that these should get 3-5000 miles. Had I got that much out of them I'd be MORE then happy. Hell I would have bought a regular set of ET streets had I known these were gonna wear out so fast! The next representative claimed that my car was "too heavy, and the heat from the road was ruining the tires"... Sounds like a runaround to me. If this was true my car which weighed more last year would have done the same thing as they did this year to the tires. Anyways I'm getting nowhere so far. Can anyone help me,

I dont have the money to buy another $400 set of tires that I thought would last me most of the year as it is. If you could supply me with an email/phone number of someone higher up in the company or anyone that could help that'd be great!

Heres a few pictures of these junk defective tires i got... remember this is after only 800 miles... and about 4 track passes!

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f1...**tyMTs005.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f1...**tyMTs009.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f1...**tyMTs011.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f1...**tyMTs004.jpg

ironworks · #2 06-03-2008, 03:35 PM

I have been told from a reliable source that Mickey Thompson is having alot of trouble with their drag radials right now. They are coming apart in the factory testing. We drag race a true 10.5 drag radial car and go through tires a lot. I have heard a lot of people saying that the tires are in shortage due to the fact Mickey Thompson cannot get them to last. I bought a set last week from Summit and they said it was their last pair, I was hoping these were not junk. If you get on the Yellowbullet.com you might find some answers to what your looking for. I bet you got one of the new tires that were made that they are having so much trouble with. Apparently they have not shipped to many tires from the factory in a month or two. M&H tires sells a drag radial also that is supposed to work better then the Mickey, but we are not allowed to run them in our class.

We only get about 10 miles out of our tires, but we have run a best of 7.60 in the 1/4. Good luck

6D9 · #3 06-03-2008, 04:06 PM

Pics dont work??

gearheads78 · #4 06-03-2008, 04:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ironworks

. We drag race a true 10.5 drag radial car

Sorry for off topic but where the hell do you find time to build the incredible cars you do and run a small tire heads up class too. I was building a small tire car over the last few years and gave up because even through the the races were once a month you have to be out every weekend for TNT to stay fast enough to qualify.

Back on topic...My last set of MT DR's had aprox 30 passes and 2000 street miles. They still had enough tread that I sold them to a buddy that used them for another 6 months of weekend street driving. Sounds like yours have issues. The worst part is how do you prove the miles you have on them. Its going to be a hard argument to prove.

quadfather · #5 06-03-2008, 04:30 PM

i'm not sure about the et street radials .but the drag radials are made in englang not the u.s. and that is why they are in short supply. it's the first i have heard of this problem though.

ironworks · #6 06-03-2008, 05:19 PM

The way it was told to me was that they were being made somewhere else now. And that is why they are having problems. I was told this info from a friend that has tires made in the same factory as the MT's now.

ironworks · #7 06-03-2008, 05:28 PM

[QUOTE=gearheads78;151760]Sorry for off topic but where the hell do you find time to build the incredible cars you do and run a small tire heads up class too. I was building a small tire car over the last few years and gave up because even through the the races were once a month you have to be out every weekend for TNT to stay fast enough to qualify.
QUOTE]

Funny you should say that I have lived at the track for the past few weekends, I guess it helps to eat sleep and breath cars and going fast. It is a lot of fun and amazing how fast those cars go on such a small tire. We are working on sorting out an updated chassis that was built for the car before I came along. The old chassis would run 7.60's in the rain and was pretty much unbeatable, But it was only certed to 7.50 and he did not want to find a tenth mid season and not be able to compete. So now it is certed to 6.0 and we are having to figure the car. Those cars are so boarder line that you change just one or 2 things and you are in left field overnight. Here is a link to the car in the PSCA.

http://www.pscaracing.com/driverprof...emeholder.html

Do you race/attend in the big Texas vs. World race in The fall? They went last year and are talking about going again this year.

Sorry off topic again, resume

Rodger

rocketman · #8 06-03-2008, 08:04 PM

who else makes a Et street style tire, Hoosier or Goodyear have anything. I'm finishing my 33 ford 10.5 car about ready to race it.

Blake Foster · #9 06-04-2008, 10:07 PM

WEll that makes my 10.5 tire car sound really slow Rodger. we just updated my 69 camaro and it now runs 9.50 so i guess i have a ways to go.....

ironworks · #10 06-04-2008, 11:35 PM

Blake, If you put enough Nitrous to anything, It will either haul ass or blow up. We have done quite a bit of both.

We will see how thing go this weekend, We are trying a new set up this weekend. There are some cars that really haul ass on a very small tire. We ran a few weeks ago at an event just for some track time and ran in A Gas. Those guys thought we were crazy with our ity bity street tire. Oh and we have to weigh 3050lbs.

Are you running nitrous in your Camaro?

Rodger