nwoods
Member Since: 03 Apr 2006
Location: Southern California
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| USA - Land Rover Class Action Suit - Tires |
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Hate to see it, but LR sorta brought this on their selves by trying to avoid it rather than fixing it.
http://www.landroverclassaction.com/
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10forcash
Member Since: 09 Jun 2005
Location: Ubique
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dickgriff wrote:More on this here
http://abclocal.go.com:80/kgo/story?sectio...id=4938111
That's gotta be a wind up 
'Lew Colon' - that's not a real name... is it?
And "It's a noise he sais is being caused by uneven tire wear. To see for ourselves 7 On Your Side used a small stick to measure the tread on various parts of Colon's tire, and compared it with another tire" 
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| 16th Jan 2007 10:41 am |
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catweasel
Member Since: 05 May 2006
Location: Bundaleer
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Quote:But 6,000 miles later, he noticed the same pattern on his new tire.
Lew Colon: "In the tread design you can truly see it was wearing -- every other one was wearing."
Colon again complained to Land Rover, but 25,000 miles have passed. The company so far hasn't offered to replace the second set
so I would assume he's got 31,000 miles out of the second set, not too bad.
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| 16th Jan 2007 11:35 am |
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TravisTX
Member Since: 01 Sep 2006
Location: Houston, Texas
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| Re: USA - Land Rover Class Action Suit - Tires |
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nwoods wrote:Hate to see it, but LR sorta brought this on their selves by trying to avoid it rather than fixing it.
http://www.landroverclassaction.com/
I hate class action lawsuits. This moronic law firm couldn't even find a photo of an LR3 to use on the web site. 
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| 16th Jan 2007 12:51 pm |
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Mossy
Member Since: 01 Jul 2005
Location: Hollyoaks, UK
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Is there any company / organisation that is safe? Just looked under their "View Other Cases" and it reads like a who's who of US Plc (Inc). I see they have a case pending against Intel on behalf of "consumers who purchased Intel-based personal computers.".
Thats some class action.
 D3 HSE V8...
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| 16th Jan 2007 2:17 pm |
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nwoods
Member Since: 03 Apr 2006
Location: Southern California
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| Re: USA - Land Rover Class Action Suit - Tires |
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TravisTX wrote:I hate class action lawsuits. This moronic law firm couldn't even find a photo of an LR3 to use on the web site.
Boy do I agree with you! This whole process turns my stomach
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| 16th Jan 2007 2:54 pm |
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Jads777
Member Since: 03 Sep 2005
Location: Channel Islands
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10forcash wrote:7 On Your Side used a small stick to measure the tread on various parts of Colon's tire, and compared it with another tire"
Where can we buy one of these technological marvels?
Could someone arrange a group buy?
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| 16th Jan 2007 7:36 pm |
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simon
Member Since: 11 Jan 2005
Location: Shropshire
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People with not a lot of a life bring up these type of BS actions... and it'll start over here soon too I imagine.
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| 16th Jan 2007 8:55 pm |
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simon
Member Since: 11 Jan 2005
Location: Shropshire
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Does it say what tyre - sorry - tire is fitted ?
My guess is Goodyear Wrangler's
They always wear castelated on my LR's and cause noise at some point in their life.
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| 16th Jan 2007 9:03 pm |
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simon
Member Since: 11 Jan 2005
Location: Shropshire
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So are these just public outcries by a layer hoping to get enough attention to actually take the case to court and thus earn some cash ?
i.e. a begging letter to owners of product x ?
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| 16th Jan 2007 9:07 pm |
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angrd020
Member Since: 14 Dec 2005
Location: Branford
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I try to get around that uneven wear problem by wheeling the D3 every chance I get. Just pick some nice rock piles and keep em moving! 
ALR 2005 Tonga Green Land Rover LR3(Yes I wheel it!!!)
2002 Shale Green Jeep WranglerX(Yes I wheel it!!!)
1994 Red Jeep Cherokee (Use it as a spare vehicle)
DO IT! DO IT NOW!!!
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