[Excaliber]

I haven't seen any NEW dry cracked GY's, in fact it seems to take several years for that to happen. It will happen SOONER than a typical commercial passenger car tire, but it WON'T happen to NEW ones.

Now if your SHIPPED 'old stock', well thats a problem with your SUPPLIER. As far as out of round goes, thats a problem with certain batches, again, address the problem with your SUPPLIER. If your not happy with what you got, return them, don't buy them or whatever. If they 'scare' you, buy something else. I have yet to find another brand that offers better traction in a treaded tire. For me, traction equals safety. Therefore, the GY's are my first choice for speeds well into the 100 mph range, wet weather and dry traction. For RACE tires there darn hard to beat, period. There extremely light weight, a very desirable trate when your racing, maybe not so good if you run over debris, your call. You can pick up a BIG GY with one finger, try that with a TA or a Mickey Thompson. The GY's replaced my Mickey Thompson's by the way, the MT's just wouldn't cut it for good traction.

When I was working at the race track, before it shut down, we would get a large number of 'race' tires in various sizes for various cars. When they came in we would pounce on them to get the 'best ones', quality ALWAYS varied. Some were not so good, some were OK, some were great! Didn't matter WHO the manufacturer was, not all race tires are created equal. I know that holds true for passenger car tires as well, but I do think passenger car tires are more closely monitored for defects, all though certainly some get through anyway.

Being as they are CLEARLY marked as RACE tires, it's ridiculous to think your going to sue Goodyear for an accident linked to these tires on the STREET! Which by the way, I've never heard a SINGLE case of ANYONE claiming the GY's caused an accident, not ONE. Nor a blowout from a defective GY.

Firestone getting sued for roll overs? OK, their STREET TIRES!!!! HELLO!!!!