Originally Posted by Kruse
I've never used Douglas tires, but because they are are a Goodyear brand, I'll tell you of my last set of WalMart-purchased tires made by Goodyear.
Bought a set of Goodyear Wranglers for my Jeep from Walmart, well..because, Jeeps need Goodyear Wranglers, right?
Three were purchased at one store because they only had three and another was purchased at a different WM store about a week later. The one tire had severe cracking problems around each lug of the tire within a year. The other three were fine.
I went back to WM and showed the tire man this tire and he asked if I had road hazard warranty. Told him I did not. He then said that I was SOL. I told him that it wasn't a road hazard problem, it was a manufacturing problem. He agreed. (No funny wearing of the tire, no front end problems, no problem with the other tires, it was a defective tire) He told me that Goodyear would not stand behind that tire no matter what. I asked him if he would feel safe with that tire on his car. "Oh, h*ll, no!" was his reply. That was my last set of Goodyear tires I'll ever buy.
Basically, I'm saying that if you have a defective tire and you bought it at WM without paying extra for a road hazard warranty, you are out of luck.
Sounds like you need a different Wal-Mart, that has NOTHING to do with road hazards. Unless UV from the sun bouncing off the road counts!! I have also had bad luck with GY from WM, had passenger tires (Viva 2s-JUNK) wear out way before their mileage warranty (rotated regularly).