[Shotimes] Vibration or picky...again

[George Fourchy]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 10:41:44 -0500, Ron Porter wrote:

> a vibration at 70 mph is a tire (balance or round).

The other thing that I forgot to include as a possibility was a flat spot in the
tire itself.  It's been so long since I've had that problem that it didn't come to
mind until after I sent the post, but older tires or lower quality tires can have
defects in the belts that will suck the tread in a bit from the perfect circle that
we expect them to form when they are mounted and inflated.  The last time that
happened with me was when the black car sat on a flat tire or 2 years or more in my
back yard at the old house....by the time I got around to attending to it, it had a
permanent deformity.  I took it to the Bridgestone dealer...it was a 950....and they
just said "balance it....balance it!!"      Idiots!!! 

You can see this defect as well when you rotate it in the air with the engine.  The
difference is that the rim is centered, but the tire edge is not.

The solution is a new tire.

George