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12-16-2014, 06:28 PM
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Any experience with putting Kelly Tires on a 2008 Charleston....presently have 275/80R
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12-16-2014, 06:33 PM
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Putting 295Kelly,s to replace 275 Michelin,s,,,any problem???
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12-16-2014, 06:57 PM
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To be quite honest I haven't heard the name Kelly in 35 years, since I was kid and putting them on muscle cars (because they were cheap at the time and we smoked them off at every stop sign). That said, I'm not sure of their reputation, or their manufacture, today.
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12-16-2014, 07:18 PM
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Hahaha...Ditto AquaMan. Oh the burnouts we would do.
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12-16-2014, 08:02 PM
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Hahaha...Ditto AquaMan. Oh the burnouts we would do.
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IKR! Had N50 Kellys on a '73 camaro that would just about pull the front wheels. Could do it with wrinkle walls, though. What fun, when you're young, dumb, and full of .... well you know!
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12-17-2014, 09:33 PM
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Well,got the tires put on...Kelly 295 75R 22.5 ...compared them in size with my old Michellin 275 80R 22.5...identical...we,ll see how they do...I know I,ll never wear them out...the Michellin,s were manufactured in 07.. 15000 miles and done...cracking big time on the side walls...didn,t want to chance riding on them for the rest of our journey....heading west in the new year
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12-17-2014, 10:51 PM
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Here they are:
Kelly Tires | Home
There's a Goodyear tire plant in Freeport, IL. If I remember correctly, it was a Kelly facility until about 20-25 years ago when Goodyear bought it. I don't know if Goodyear actually bought out Kelly, or if they just bought the plant.
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12-18-2014, 07:28 AM
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That,s what the tire dealer told me also...Kelly---- Goodyear...pretty much the same...we,ll see...I just didn,t like seeing those cracks on the sidewalls of my Michellin,s
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12-18-2014, 07:48 AM
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Any experience with putting Kelly Tires on a 2008 Charleston....presently hav...
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Originally Posted by AquaMan
To be quite honest I haven't heard the name Kelly in 35 years, since I was kid and putting them on muscle cars (because they were cheap at the time and we smoked them off at every stop sign). That said, I'm not sure of their reputation, or their manufacture, today.
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No kidding. Feel like I just stepped into a time machine. I believe they were Kelly Superchargers. Great fun turning them into smoke with my 68 Camaro.
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12-19-2014, 06:16 AM
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Originally Posted by Canada Street Kid
That,s what the tire dealer told me also...Kelly---- Goodyear...pretty much the same...we,ll see...I just didn,t like seeing those cracks on the sidewalls of my Michellin,s
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Verified from the Kelly Tires website - they were absorbed by Goodyear back in the early 90's.
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12-19-2014, 06:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Canada Street Kid
Well,got the tires put on...Kelly 295 75R 22.5 ...compared them in size with my old Michellin 275 80R 22.5...identical...we,ll see how they do...I know I,ll never wear them out...the Michellin,s were manufactured in 07.. 15000 miles and done...cracking big time on the side walls...didn,t want to chance riding on them for the rest of our journey....heading west in the new year
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I would think that the Michellin tires served you pretty well to last 7 years, It's not the miles it's the years that took you to start cracking.
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