Bf Goodrich brown letters

It is initially yes, but then you get a person. Like any customer service company there's canned comments for certain questions. Some people are more lazy than others and rely 100% on canned comments and others rely more on their humanity to reply. My last chat with them before this one was way more personal.

 

I’m starting to lean in same direction. Sand paper, $11 paint marker, or Cooper Cobras. Lots of people say the Cooper Cobra is better tire too.

The BF Goodrich Radial T/A sizes that everyone wants always seem like the highest priced ones.

 

Exactly. My size 245-60-14 was the most expensive one of all the 14's on Summit. I have one of my original T/A's from 2010 as a spare and the letters on that one are as white as a piece of paper. BFG frigged up big time. I sawe a beautiful car on one of Jay Leno's Garage videos he was showing. It had BFG's with poop colored letters. So if BFG couldn't care less that millions of followers see this crap product, they sure ain't going to give a rat's behind about you and me. That's the sad truth.

 

Just went through filing a claim with BFG on my T/A's that turned brown. I bought these in 2017 and had zero miles on them. Called BFG they did direct me to a dealer to have them inspected. Mine fell into the known defective group of tires. I paid for mounting and balancing, tires were replaced at no cost- ONLY because there was zero tread wear, otherwise they would have been prorated. A little quirk to this process is that you have to pay for the tires, BFG will refund your money. I receive my refund deposited into my bank account 1 day after I filed supporting documents to BFG. The whole process of replacing my tires to getting reimbursed was only 3 days. Well worth the effort!!!

 

Good for you. For me, the dealer wouldn't honor the purchase price. To get new ones, they quoted me the current price, which was double what I paid in 2020. Plus they only offered me a 35% discount. In the end, I would have had to pay more than what I paid when they were new in 2020, even with the discount. I'm over it. Cooper Cobras for me next time. BFG's will soone be approaching Polyglas or Wide Oval price territory.

 

Regarding the paint markers, I tried it and it looked terrible. It basically looked like BFG's with letters that someone tried to paint white. And I'm real good with my hands. The marker tips, if they were broad and flat, might have worked better. But they are pointed, which is terrible for this application, even if you slanted the pen. It was an effort in foolishness after 3 letters. I wiped it all off and will just do posi burnouts until the steel belts show through. That's all these BFGs are good for now, unless I feel like paying to have them remounted with the letters facing in.

 

You can get big wide flat markers at Hobby lobby, but once again sandpaper is a easy solution.

 

I already did that. lol That was the first thing I tried. Used a power sander too. Got them a lot whiter. All the brown came back over a few weeks as if I never did anything to them. Trust me, the tires are sh1t. (can you tell I'm bitter about it?)

 

I wonder if it varies per dealer? I had no problem getting 100% refund on my 5 yr old radial ta’s. $0 out of pocket out the door. Maybe bfg is cracking down due to lots of claims ?

 

Yeah Michelin was tighter than a clam's a$$ with my claim. What they saved in shelling out to me, they lose for the rest of my life's purchases. Whatever. You're right they probably are cracking down. The irony is, it's their fault. They should suck it up.