Cooper Tire

[MonsterDad]

Good old Cooper Tire is being bought by an Indian company.

sad :roll:

[jwnissen]

That sucks!!! I bought coopers because they were a US company. Hope they keep their quality up.

[jimbo&rooster]

That's too bad. All the passenger vehicles you here on the farm have cooper AT3s on them and we have been pretty happy with them. I guess I better start looking elsewhere when I need tires this fall.

Jim

[roaniecowpony]

That's too bad.

But once a company goes public they are open for takeovers and mergers from anyone in the world. Cooper has 5 of its 9 plants overseas, including China, Serbia, Mexico etc.. So they were an international player already. I think Carlisle is the only national brand left.

[ACooper]

I've been buying coopers for 10 years. Like someone else mentioned I probably will continue if the quality is still there.

[big_fish]

Gentleman it seems to be the way of the world. where I work they have out serviced our tech support and it is a little frustrating when you cant understand the person on the other end of the phone. as for cooper I hope they don't change the quality I just had a set of coopers on my wifes van and we got around 70,000 miles on them. The good year rep I deal with promised me that plus a few for a better price so we will see if he is correct otherwise next set will be coopers again.

[displaced_texan]

I've been buying coopers for 10 years. Like someone else mentioned I probably will continue if the quality is still there.

I used to buy Coopers, quit because I found something I got better reviews of.

I shop quality, not country of ownership/manufacturing.