[Shotimes] Vibration or picky...again

[Ron Porter]

My brother-in-law just replaced two 8-ply truck tires on is Suburban. He got
a vibration the other day after having them rotated, and it looked like one
tire had one of the belts go bad. They were only a year old, but have around
50K on them.

These are still tire-related issues.

Ron Porter

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of George Fourchy
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 2:10 PM
To: shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Vibration or picky...again

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
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