Thanks for the offer to participate. However, I’m still retired and loving it. As I’m sure you are aware, when I was Chairman of the Aftermarket Wheel & Tire Committee, we worked very hard to develop a specification that would serve the aftermarket industry well without creating a standard that would be so complex and costly that it would discourage the implementation and use of the standard.

Unfortunately that didn’t happen. Your committee, being the ultimate judge, changed our proposed standard into a complex and costly standard that for the most part is being ignored by the industry. I would have to assume that when you say your committee is working to improve J2530, it means the standard will become even more complex and costly. I personally think that J2530 is a very good standard as it is written today. I do however feel that it is not conducive to being adopted by most aftermarket wheel producers and distributors. I’m not oppossed to making changes for the better, but I am oppossed to making changes with the purpose of trying to discourage an industry from growing in order to promote sales of OEM wheels.

So in response to your question, thanks but no thanks.