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When I checked inventory in the spring across Canada for 18" 8s there were none in stock anywhere and none were contemplated to be coming our way with the 9s replacing them. I guess Nokian and Kal Tire could have been fibbing.
They may simply have done a season-end inventory, and realized that somewhere in the system they still had a warehouse full of 8's,and so they want to now sell those off this season,and sohave kept them on the website.