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It's Alive!

My daily's Kuhmos had bad wear from the worn out suspension too, this set
of tires has not had this sort of wear, courtesy of the new Bilstiens.
They'd howl at speed.
Cathy

On 7:35 pm 12/03/06 "Nate Lowe" <nlowe79@gmail.com> wrote:
> I did have some uneven wear on my last set of tires. I attributed it
> to the car being out of alignment. I haven't noticed any uneven wear
> on the new tires but I haven't really driven on them long enough to
> show much. I suppose it's not a bad idea to get them rotated and
> balanced though.
>
> On 12/3/06, Roger <rogercv1@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >  Nate does have some uneven tire wear
> >
> >  On 12/3/06, julie@menloparkrandd.com <julie@menloparkrandd.com>
> > >  wrote: I asked a tire expert to balance the tires. He told me
> >  and showed me the uneven wear caused by bad shocks.
> > >  The leading edge of each of the raised rubber contact points was
> >  higher than the trailing edge.
> > >  Changed the shocks and the noise and bad wear went away.
> > >
> > >
> > >  -----Original Message-----
> > >  From: Nate Lowe [mailto:nlowe79@gmail.com]
> > >  Sent: Sunday, December 3, 2006 09:15 AM
> > >  To: julie@menloparkrandd.com
> > >  Cc: 'Allyn', 'Scirocco List'
> > >  Subject: Re: It's Alive!
> > >
> > >  That's a thought. I guess my main issue is how to diagnose
> >  something like this. I suppose for the tire i could just rotate
> >  them and see if the sound moves to a different location. If it's
> >  something else how would you go about figuring it out? I can't
> > > exactly look under the car while it's moving.
> > >  Nate
> > >
> > >  On 12/3/06, julie@menloparkrandd.com <julie@menloparkrandd.com >
> >  wrote:How about a tire? I had a tire that did some thing similar
> >  on the black MKII. It went "whap" at certain speeds.
> > >
> > >
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