[pantdino]

Originally Posted by guybo

There's a couple things that look to me are likely culprits. If tires aren't mounted properly, they can be ruined. There's a special goop they use on the bead to lube it up when they mount the tire to the rim. If they use the wrong goop or none at all, the tire can be damaged internally and show nothing outside. The fact that the pull moves with the wheel tells me that this issue is tire or rim related.

You might have a bad rim or one that can only be road force balanced. Find a shop to have the wheels road force balanced and inspected carefully (with the tires not mounted to them so they can look at the inside of the rims). Have them dismount the tires and remount them- all of them, don't be cheap. If the tires were incorrectly mounted, it may be reversible. You could have gotten a bad tire too and you'll just have to try to get your money back on it.

If it was alignment, the problem would persist no matter what position the tires are at. Like others have said though, if the tires are directional, if one is mounted in the wrong direction that might be the problem. Running a few hundred miles on a directional tire mounted backwards can also ruin that tire.

I have read in multiple reliable places that running a tire in the wrong direction, will NOT damage it. That was only true of the very earliest radials