HIGHER than what? Do you think if you put 200psi in a tire the handling would be truly amazing? Heck let's put in 400.
I think you are the I dot. Lower inflation pressure puts more tire on the road. However this also increases tire temperature, (and of course way too little pressure i.e. flat tire reduces handling severely). There is a trade off and I believe Ford went too low (you obviously don't but I do). If Ford were worried that their car wasn't going to pass the govt rollover test and believe things as you do, then they would have raised pressures quite high, no?
I have read plenty over the last year or so since the problem has arisen and pulled together as many facts as possible over that time period in what I hope is an objective manner. I think neither Firestone nor Ford are blameless.
The main FACT is that there was a pretty big scare about the fatalities due to Explorer rollovers. I suppose you are denying the FACTS that warranted the investigations into these crashes in the first place. The accidents didn't happen, right?
Not at all, but it would appear I am armed with more common sense than yourself. I am not a unidirectional thinker like yourself that can only look AWAY from the Explorer as one of many factors involved.
The Motor Vehicle is a remarkable piece of Engineering and it takes a lot of unlucky/unlikely events to cause failures like these. Rarely is just one simple problem the root cause of a vehicle failure.
The Explorer is not TO blame for rollovers but it is not Blameless either. If only life were that simple.
They have stopped!?! You mean NOT ONE explorer has turned over since Michelins and Goodyear's were fitted. Amazing!!
Since there are fewer blowouts (i.e. fewer flawed tires) then of course there are fewer rollovers. But it would appear that Uhaul do not trust the Explorer for some reason, a reason we may never be privy to. Their reasons may not have anything to do with the explorere/Firestone problem anyhow.
You must understand that tires *will* fail and the vehicle should handle that condition. How come OTHER vehicles that have used Firestones for many years aren't implicated in a similar scare if Firestones are as bad as you imply and that Goodyear and Michelins are goody goody tires? Do they not blow out AT ALL? If it is the TIRES fault, how exactly does the tire turn the car over? Does it reach up and pull the car over? There is more than one thing going on here buddy.
Look in a mirror.
JP