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Old 03-06-2016, 04:37 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by soccerk18 View Post
. . .I was wondering if anyone could tell me what happened?
Certainly not me, but I'd be rather upset. Excessive wear is one thing, but chunks of tread flying off the tire seems to me like quite another. I'd be real happy if someone would inform me that such disintegration is normal in out-of-alignment tires, but. I have never in my life seen that kind of loss of integrity, and, worn or defective, why in Hades didn't the tire techs who worked on your car point this out to you? Isn't this situation going to be dangerous a few miles down the road?

Your excellent photos show the same thing beginning to happen on the outboard edge of this tire as well. Are any other tires wearing the same way?

Maybe I'm ignorant, but I'd be jumping up and down at the mfr of this tire, wanting to know what it is about the tread compound that's causing it to behave like hard candy under a hammer.



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