[Peroni]

You were very lucky. When I got my truck it had Firestone Steeltex tires on it. They looked great and had awesome tread. 2 summers ago I was heading out to western WI with about 1500lbs in the back. Just got past DeWitte MI after 15hrs on the road including 3hrs stuck at the Sarnia border crossing when driver's rear went BANG! Tread mostly seperated, wrapped around the axle locking that hub and I slid 200' on the rim. The steel belting scratched my rear bumper, put a huge dent in underside of the bed, caught my mud flap stuffing into the wheel well which crumpled the lower rear of the body panel, tore out the front fender brace, kinked the brake line, messed up the parking brake cable and very nearly tore off the fuel filler neck. What a relaxing way to start a trip! Wait it gets better! My spare - which I filled not even 24hrs before - only had 10lbs left in it. Lovely! Had to go on the ramp truck as he had no air tank. Had to drive all the way up to Ludington, take the ferry across lake Michigan then drive clear across WI on rt 10 with a leaky spare and 3 tires I no longer trusted. Needless to say when I got to Ellsworth I called around and (ironically) ended up ordering 4 Michelins from River Falls Tire who are a Firestone dealer. In the end it was kinda worth it cause the chick at the tire place was HOT! And I got consolation knowing the azzhat who was tailgating me in MI probably had to go home and change his undies.