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decent wide whitewall sought for 1992 Cadillac Brougham d'Elegance

All tires are required to have a manufacturers code molded/stamped into the sidewall somewhere. If it's made by Goodyear it will have the Goodyear code. Google and you should be able to find a list of codes. It's unlikely you'll find much info on these oddball "off-branded" tires. Goodyear probably makes that same tire under many different names for many different independent tire stores. I have bought these sorts of off-brand tires in the past and never had any particular problem, some have been quite good.

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Ashton Crusher
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Firestone has the FR380 still which has a whitewall though not a huge one. Decent price. Kauffman tire has them under their private label as well. I don't think anyone outside the specialty shops have a wide white anymore.... Sucks for those of us with old cars.

Steve B.

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Steve B.

Does anyone know if the Toyo Spectrum in P225/75R15 has a decent-sized whitewall? Can't find pictures of that exact size.

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The Derfer

No, but a 225/70-15 Sumitomo HTR-200 has quite a wide whitewall. It's well over an inch in width, looks like it takes up almost one-third of the sidewall. It's definitely on the wider side of whitewalls that I've seen, short of the full deal. I know it's a bit smaller than what you're looking for, although the load rating should be fine.

It's got very good traction in dry and wet, and it's pretty quite. Downsides include zippo traction in snow or on wet grass/mud, and I find it wears fairly quickly. It's the OEM size for my '78 Trans Am (well, it's the closest equivalent to a GR70-15) and I'm on my second set of them. Tire Rack used to sell them; I don't know who carries them these days.

....Ed

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ed.toronto

Can't find those anywhere. Might be discontinued.

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The Derfer

They're still in Sumitomo's catalogue:

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on page 7. The "slim" whitewall is a lot more than slim. I have the whitewalls inside, because it's a Trans Am.)

You could try asking Sumitomo who might carry it. Tire Rack still had some stock available when I got the second set a few years ago. I'm in Canada, and I'm pretty sure that I could never get this size locally. I wonder what inspired Sumitomo to make this tire; is there some performance/luxury Japanese car that takes these tires?

....Ed

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ed.toronto

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