[Shotimes] Vibration or picky...again

[Ian Fisher]

This makes me wonder if bad tires can contribute to
bad wheel bearings and other suspension wear and
tear/failures if they are used long enough.

The last year or so has seen some "trying" times for
my tires. I wouldn't be suprised if one of the belts
are bad.

oh well, it's getting close to replacement time for
them anyway..

Ian

--- Ron Porter <ronporter@prodigy.net> wrote:

> 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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