| new tarsHoward, on host 209.86.38.13 Tuesday, November 21, 2000, at 06:19:44
 This morning I'm going to go get some new tires on the car.  Let me translate that to Southern Appalachian: This mornin' I gotta go git some new tars on th' cor. (No, I didn't use the dialectizer.)
 We've driven the car almost 40,000 miles on the original tires, a brand I would never buy.  The score so far is two separated belts, one blowout and a flat.  There is still a lot of tread on some of them.  The original spare replaced the blowout at 15,000 and a new tire, same brand, replaced the first separated belt at the Toyota dealership at about 35,000.  It was still under warrenty.  So now I have an old second hand tire on the right rear.  It's the one I used to replace the spare.  And one of the front tires vibrates because of the second separated belt.  My wife told me to go get four new, high-quality tires.  She doesn't trust those old original-equipment tires anymore. Neither do I. I'm going to get the brand that says, "So much is riding on your tires."
 Howard
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