Another coker tire bites the dust.A friend was comming back from a car show in xenia ohio a couple weeks ago in his 56 crown vic.he was running about 65 when part of the tread seperated on the right front,he said it sounded like it wiped out the inner fender but it really didnt do much damage.the coker tire only had 4000 miles on it.i dont know what coker is doing about it but i am getting nervous about running  them on my car.i have had to replace 4 of the 5 tires i bought from them,2 were tread separtion and 2 were defects in the sidewall.coker did replace mine though.  Carl    Ohio 

My opinion of Coker is a clone of a 50 year old tire for a trailer queen. From what I've seen, they don't compare in performance to what we had 50 years ago. I consistently drove at speeds around 100 mph when I was commuting to college 45 years ago and I don't recall a tire ever coming apart on me. Of course, they didn't last very long either. 200 miles a day ran the rubber off in a hurry. The only tires I remember throwing rubber were the US Royals. They were notorious for that.

Kenneth

Fredricksburg, Texas

They sound dangerous.  There have been a fair number of other negative threads on the Cokers too. 

Mike, located in the Siskiyou mountains, Southern, OR 292 powered 1946 Ford 1/2 ton, '62 Mercury Meteor, '55 Country Squire (parting out), '64 Falcon, '54 Ford 600 tractor.

I HAVE USED A LOT OF COKER TIRES, AND HAVE BEEN HAPPY WITH THEM, I HAD ONE SET THAT CRACKED THRU THE WIDE WHITE WALLS. COKER KNEW IT WAS A PROBLEM, AND REPLACED THEM AT NO COST. ALL YOU CAN ASK IS FOR A COMPANY TO STAND BEHIND THIER  PRODUCT. TOM

  JUST A MIDNIGHT CRUISE DOWN THUNDER ROAD!!! TOM DRUMMOND MIDWEST DIRECTOR 57 FORD INTERNATIONAL

Too bad they weren't standing behind me when I was:
Changing a flat by the side of the road (4 times), waiting around to have the replacement tires they sent mounted & balanced (5 times), and first of course, to have the defective ones dismounted (many separate trips/gas used to get to the tire dealer), fishing the money out of my wallet to pay for shipping back their defective tires, etc., etc.

6 VOLTS/POS. GRD. NW INDIANA

Are they Coker Classics? What tire is it specifically?

Heber City, UT (15 mins outside of Park City- basically it's in the mountains)

55 Effie

The tires i had problems with and the tire my friend had come apart was coker classic  Carl

Coker Classic WWW radials. Tread separations & sidewall splits here also.

In all fairness, since I could never stand the bone-shattering ride their tires produced at the full recommended 36 lbs. of pressure (even with OEM shocks), I wonder what percentage of the all-too-numerous Coker WWW Classic radial failures occurred to people who DID consistently run full pressure?

As far as standing behind their product goes, though they did always replace the defective ones, after all the trouble & inconvenience they caused me, they still had the nerve to pro-rate/charge for treadwear! I would have been WAY ahead of the game if I had just thrown all 5 away and replaced with another brand at the very first sign of trouble!

6 VOLTS/POS. GRD. NW INDIANA

We just received a set of Diamond Back tires for my wife's Amphicar. I have had troubles in the past buying so called "new" tires that have been sitting around in a warehouse for years then sold as new. These tires are built new when ordered and people that have them say that the white walls do not discolor either. The are not cheap though, but from all the info I read and heard about them is good.

  Vic Correnti

i lost 2 coker tires they replace both this was on 2 driffrent cars and the one i got the car with their tires on itthey have a pretty good service dept. but i don,t know if i would get them again

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