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it came in like this, and the customer isn't going to pay for a new one.

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As someone who doesn�t care about tpms and just wants the light off, this is genius If you really wanted to do this right, you drill 3 extra holes in the spare rim, replace the standard schrader with one of the sensors, and mount the others in the new holes. https://www.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/9yxdo9/when_you_dont_want_to_tell_your_boss_that_you/

Vogue tires... a small company that did something the biggest car companies never did... invented the white wall!

Harry Hower, a chauffeur in the Chicago area in the early 1900s, got into the tire business and proposed an idea about the whitewall to the Woodbury family. By 1918, the Woodbury�s and Harry were in business and the Vogue Tyre Company was born. Over the decades, celebrities and notable people have used Vogue Tyre products on their vehicles with Vogue whitewall tires. In 1928, Mr. Lloyd Dodson contracted with Vogue Tyre owners Harry Hower and Margaret Woodbury to begin selling their distinctive whitewall tires. When the Great Depression hit in 1929, he turned to the local entertainment industry to sell upscale tires to the movie stars. In 1942, he bought Vogue Tyre and remained its chairman until his death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogue_Tyre

How many major (not boutique) American tire companies have there been, in the USA, and are any still in business but not merged or owned by an overseas corporation? Did they all die off or sell out?

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Fisk - killed by the depression, bought by US Rubber - Uniroyal, which was bought up by Michelin around 1990 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisk_Tire_Company Kelly Springfield was started in 1884, sold in 1935 to Goodyear, which dissolved the entity of Kelly Springfield around 1990. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Springfield_Tire_Company Lee Tire and Rubber lasted from 1909 to 1987, bought by Kelly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Tire_and_Rubber_Company Firestone opened for business in 1900, sold out to Bridgestone in 1988. Fyi, they made helmet liners in WW2, and surface to surface missiles in the early 50s. Firestone bought Dayton Tires in 1961, Dayton Tire division from the Dayco Corporation. Dayco later sued both Firestone and Goodyear, alleging that the two companies conspired to monopolize the tire industry in the United States. in 1979 Firestone was on the precipice of complete collapse having not acknowledged the good days were over, and that making radials on the machin...