I was told this by a goodyear rep and my local tire store

 

What new ones or did they run out of stock? Little confused

 

I'm miffed too? I had Duratracs on my Colorado for a year. Great tires ,I'll get another set when I can figure out how to hide them from the misses.

 

There have been a bunch of sizes out of production for months now. When I was looking for 285 / 75 / 16, couldn't find any so went with BFG. I bought mine on black Friday so got a good deal and didn't want to wait. Glad I didn't!

I was told that many sizes have been discontinued (not out of production). So curious to see if they will still make all the popular 15" and 16" sizes.

 

From what I understand, tire manufacturers do runs of only a few types tires at a time (if not one type at a time), build up lots of stock, then move on to different tires. If they run out of stock, then the customers have to wait until the next production run of those tires.

This is pretty common with lots of different types of manufacturing, not just tires.

 

Yeah. They told me they were making two sizes. 35" (325/65r18) and another one. I didn't ask what other size, was just glad mine was being made.

 

Well, hopefully they can source up at least one more for my DD- bought 4 new ones a week ago and one of them is completely out of spec- unbalance-able and gives horrible vibes running down the highway.