Tire run out
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Tire run out
I bought a set of tires at our local Pep Boys as they where the only store with tires that fit the car. Well now the car rides worse with brand new tires as it did with a set of dry rotted tires that where over 25 years old. The tires seem to hop about a quarter inch up and down. This seems like its way out of line, what is acceptable?
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Just got the tires Monday, ran the car through inspection tagged and it just seems to ride terrible now. I am going to take it over to get the tires checked and see what they say.
One of the tires had 7.5 ounces of weight
One of the tires had 7.5 ounces of weight
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I bought a set of tires at our local Pep Boys as they where the only store with tires that fit the car. Well now the car rides worse with brand new tires as it did with a set of dry rotted tires that where over 25 years old. The tires seem to hop about a quarter inch up and down. This seems like its way out of line, what is acceptable?
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no tire should take that much. have them rebalance them and tell them to road force balance them also. the road force will tell them if the tire is bad or your wheel. if its the tires they should give you new ones since you just bought them.
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Did you buy good namebrand tires or their generic, inexpensive junk? good tires should never have out of round conditions that would require so much weight. This is a problem that should be taken care of under warranty. An experienced tire mounter would rotate the tire 90° to 180° on the rim and re-balance so that no wheel would have so much weight.
I was a tire store manager for 20 years and would never have accepted this from an employee. At the very least, he should have tagged the tire as out of round and pulled another out of stock to use on the car.
I was a tire store manager for 20 years and would never have accepted this from an employee. At the very least, he should have tagged the tire as out of round and pulled another out of stock to use on the car.
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I bought what was in stock. They where the only tires available in Dover that size. I bougth futura tires, the sales person said they where good tires and I heard they are the same as cooper cobra. By the looks of it they are complete junk.
I just got them rebalanced but they still have just abouth 3/16 runout. They spun them on the rims and the most weight on any tire is now 3 ounces. Just now have to put them back on the car and try it again.
I just got them rebalanced but they still have just abouth 3/16 runout. They spun them on the rims and the most weight on any tire is now 3 ounces. Just now have to put them back on the car and try it again.
