OT: OH my … Tires are so $$$$$$ now!!!!

[svelte]

[quote=flu]
On normal cars, this is like a 15-20 minute job for an amateur since it’s located in the engine… But thanks to German serviceability engineering at it’s finest, mine is located under the car, right next to the fuel tank….and it was nearly impossible to get out… 3 freaking hours, later…here’s something disgusting…. Here was the fuel that was coming out of the “clean side” of the filter (the fuel that is suppose to go to the engine and burn)..
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I’ve had Dodges where the FF was bolted to the frame under the car, easy to replace.

I’m at a loss for words for that pic. How can clean gas in your tank pass thru (what I assume you are saying was) a contaminated filter and come out that dirty? I’m not sure I understand…

[Coronita]

[quote=svelte][quote=flu]
On normal cars, this is like a 15-20 minute job for an amateur since it’s located in the engine… But thanks to German serviceability engineering at it’s finest, mine is located under the car, right next to the fuel tank….and it was nearly impossible to get out… 3 freaking hours, later…here’s something disgusting…. Here was the fuel that was coming out of the “clean side” of the filter (the fuel that is suppose to go to the engine and burn)..
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I’ve had Dodges where the FF was bolted to the frame under the car, easy to replace.

I’m at a loss for words for that pic. How can clean gas in your tank pass thru (what I assume you are saying was) a contaminated filter and come out that dirty? I’m not sure I understand…[/quote]

I suspect perhaps the tank itself has a lot a crap from years of fillup. That or the stations I go to regularly have serious issues. And being an old filter, it probably didn’t do that great of a job filtering the junk out.

The fuel filter was right under the gas tank, and bolted with a “triple square” bolt…The official way to replace it is to drop the right side of the fuel tank according to the service manual :(. Fortunately, my hands were small enough.

[Coronita]

[quote=svelte]I’m pretty much a Goodyear man, never had a bad set.

Never purchased any Michelins, but a car I bought came with them. They lasted a loooong time (I think, didn’t buy the car new) and at 70K miles I got a huge bubble (size of baseball) in the tread of front right. An anomaly I figure, so I switched it out with the spare until I decided what to do. Next week, a huge bubble appeared in the front left!

That freaked me out pretty bad, never bought any Michelins after that.

Wife’s Mustang came with BF Goodrich when we bought it new. Great tires, we loved them. So when time came to replace them, I bought the exact same tires for it. Tire dealer told me they had just redesigned that tire and I thought great, these will be even better. WRONG. The tires are SO noisy that we are counting the miles until they need replacement. In fact, I think we’ve decided to replace them early anyway. Very, very noisy tires.[/quote]

FWIW:

BF Goodrich is now owned by Michelin. the last set I had were made in Thailand and didn’t last that long either. As such, BFG costs less than Michelin for comparable tires, but in my experience they don’t perform close to Michelin’s …

I’ve gone through Bridgestone, Pirelli’s, Continentals, Goodyears, Michelins, BF G, Dunlop, and now Kumho’s.

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