What the ...why
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What the ...why
Weather is getting nice 
so I jack my vette up to remove the mags ( polish them inside and out, grease and lubricate underneath, paint the calipers and to my surprise ( have had the vette only since last July) find out that my right rear and left front tires are 18', while my rear left and right front are 17'!!!!! 
Has anyone seen this before? Am I missing something? Should I change them back to 17 front and 18 rear? Leave them as is or did the previous owner have his tires rotated without knowing what he did.
Car has always driven GREAT.
Just curious, what do you think?
so I jack my vette up to remove the mags ( polish them inside and out, grease and lubricate underneath, paint the calipers and to my surprise ( have had the vette only since last July) find out that my right rear and left front tires are 18', while my rear left and right front are 17'!!!!! Has anyone seen this before? Am I missing something? Should I change them back to 17 front and 18 rear? Leave them as is or did the previous owner have his tires rotated without knowing what he did.
Car has always driven GREAT.
Just curious, what do you think?
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sounds like some moron rotated the tires....
change them back..for starters
change them back..for starters
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Probably part of a dealership's "scheduled" maintenance plan. I wonder what other favors were done for you at the same time? Changed all 4 plugs and the points? 
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You should have seen a DIC warning " service active handling." there is no way that this car would allow that to happen.....and with different rotational diameters, your differential may be fried...
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Originally Posted by Evil-Twin
You should have seen a DIC warning " service active handling." there is no way that this car would allow that to happen.....
That car had to be one crappy handling car....
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Originally Posted by pewter99
sounds like some moron rotated the tires....
change them back..for starters
change them back..for starters
You should change them back....soon. Make sure you verify the rotation marks on the sidewall when you do the swap.Paul
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Thanks guys
tires are going back to normal, which I planned to do. Just thought for a moment I missed something. Really strange, but feel like an a*s cause I never picked up on it. Surprising thing is the car handled great and the computer never picked up on the tires other then the regular psi.
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Originally Posted by kwest2u
Weather is getting nice so I jack my vette up to remove the mags ( polish them inside and out, grease and lubricate underneath, paint the calipers and to my surprise ( have had the vette only since last July) find out that my right rear and left front tires are 18', while my rear left and right front are 17'!!!!!
Has anyone seen this before? Am I missing something? Should I change them back to 17 front and 18 rear? Leave them as is or did the previous owner have his tires rotated without knowing what he did.
Car has always driven GREAT.
Just curious, what do you think?
so I jack my vette up to remove the mags ( polish them inside and out, grease and lubricate underneath, paint the calipers and to my surprise ( have had the vette only since last July) find out that my right rear and left front tires are 18', while my rear left and right front are 17'!!!!! Has anyone seen this before? Am I missing something? Should I change them back to 17 front and 18 rear? Leave them as is or did the previous owner have his tires rotated without knowing what he did.
Car has always driven GREAT.
Just curious, what do you think?
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Originally Posted by KMeloney
Wow! And you never noticed that the rear wheel (on the one side) looked smaller than the front?!
To answer your question, no, I've never seen this before. This is insane!
-Kirk
To answer your question, no, I've never seen this before. This is insane!
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Man there are some idiots out there working on these cars. 
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Yes, change them to where the 18s are on back and 17s are in the front. Someone didn't know what they were doing.
What could someone of been thinking 
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Originally Posted by kwest2u
Weather is getting nice so I jack my vette up to remove the mags ( polish them inside and out, grease and lubricate underneath, paint the calipers and to my surprise ( have had the vette only since last July) find out that my right rear and left front tires are 18', while my rear left and right front are 17'!!!!!
Has anyone seen this before? Am I missing something? Should I change them back to 17 front and 18 rear? Leave them as is or did the previous owner have his tires rotated without knowing what he did.
Car has always driven GREAT.
Just curious, what do you think?
so I jack my vette up to remove the mags ( polish them inside and out, grease and lubricate underneath, paint the calipers and to my surprise ( have had the vette only since last July) find out that my right rear and left front tires are 18', while my rear left and right front are 17'!!!!! Has anyone seen this before? Am I missing something? Should I change them back to 17 front and 18 rear? Leave them as is or did the previous owner have his tires rotated without knowing what he did.
Car has always driven GREAT.
Just curious, what do you think?
"the previous owner have his tires rotated without knowing what he did"
Sort it out ASAP.
