Car had developed a front-end wobbling sensation that I could only describe as "insane and unsettling" Presenting the tire with two different diameters: - ThreadSky

jackalcakes.bsky.social • 37 days ago

Car had developed a front-end wobbling sensation that I could only describe as "insane and unsettling"

Presenting the tire with two different diameters:

Comments

dunstanmarshall.bsky.social•37 days ago

No no, that's intentional, it's to balance out the wobble caused by worn out tie rod ends.

You should let those wear out before putting the wheel back on next time~

nakthecow.bsky.social•37 days ago

Oh GOD

existentialentrope.bsky.social•37 days ago

Oh man I have never seen a cord failure like that. That's WILD.

arrjaysketch.bsky.social•37 days ago

Oh oof, that's definitely not good! 😧

bluemink.bsky.social•37 days ago

Well that's a neat trick.

quillbunn.bsky.social•37 days ago

How in the-

axel-hugsky.softest.dog•37 days ago

sapphy.mom•37 days ago

dang that's impressive but I'm glad you didn't get hurt from it

scrungothedog.bsky.social•37 days ago

Congrats! You unlocked the fun mode

wuffaf.at•37 days ago

Damn, how fat is your ass

veralycaon.bsky.social•37 days ago

How?????

occasionallycow.bsky.social•36 days ago

Impressive

feybeasts.bsky.social•37 days ago

Oh my god????? That’s- safely something I can say I’ve never seen in my life

dreamerhyena.bsky.social•37 days ago

Think your tire ate too much turkey over the holidays, absolutely popped a belt.

flab-dragon.bsky.social•37 days ago

the "TIre"

seritaph.bsky.social•37 days ago

Herro.

Stop experimenting with uneven inflation.

lunasecretworgan.bsky.social•37 days ago

Thats a big fuffin bubble dayum

zxsaturn.bsky.social•20 days ago

Holy crap! Good thing you caught that before it got worse

jackalcakes.bsky.social•37 days ago

This one was particularly frustrating cause if you look at the tire mounted on the car, you couldn't tell anything was weird about it 😭

sl1.bsky.social•37 days ago

What did you DO?

mythical.pizza•37 days ago

That can actually just happen over time but that’s the worst I’ve ever seen. When I got my tires replaced the guy called it “cupping”

wolfwings.us•37 days ago

That's not cupping, that's a straight-up manufacturing defect.

Cupping is a series of worn patches every so often around the tire from a suspension harmonic aligning with the tire rotation.

There's basically zero wear AT ALL on the above tire, treat depth is 'factory fresh' on both areas. O.o

bobbycorwin.bsky.social•37 days ago

yeah, look at the original picture. the diameter change is only on the top. the bottom edge is flat

mythical.pizza•37 days ago

Idk cars man I was just goin off what the Firestone guy told me

thejestercrow.bsky.social•34 days ago

Take it as a Sign & find a different Firestone rep to work your car. I had one Firestone dude say "noise from wheel is normal🤡"

🧐
I casually mentioned it to his boss on my way out the door. He tagged it as "bad bearing, catastrophic wheel separation from car, etc, lol, get back in the shop ASAP😅"
😡

slippersbcat.bsky.social•37 days ago

That happened to me with an alignment issue and both my front tires got rubbed down to wires on the inside only, that was fun 🫠

nullcircuit.bsky.social•36 days ago

Is it bulging?? That's wild

david-ardilla.bsky.social•37 days ago

Yikes! No wonder you really felt that.

rubysnoot.bsky.social•37 days ago

Someone at the factory was punching in the diameter and accidentally slipped in a "~" without noticing

shapeshrinker.bsky.social•37 days ago

Well that's not right

lighter.bsky.social•36 days ago

Slap four of these babies on your car and you got yourself a groovy little wiggle-wagon

loosf.bsky.social•37 days ago

holy shit what

snowdogcy.bsky.social•37 days ago

Oooh it’s those variable aspect ratio tires XD

senorpapel.bsky.social•37 days ago

That’s pretty spooky

grapeshifter.bsky.social•37 days ago

got the ‘,:^j tire

jackalcakes.bsky.social•36 days ago

DreamWorks tire 😭

darreinhardt.bsky.social•36 days ago

Oh, yeah, that's bad.

waterabsorbant.bsky.social•37 days ago

the composite diameter Solar 4XS.... legend said it to happen once every 2000 years

thesammon.com•37 days ago

HOW

cervine.online•37 days ago

OUh

cheekysqueaker.bsky.social•37 days ago

Tire, but in italics.

tortoiseshell-1.bsky.social•37 days ago

Honest question

. How does this even happen

thespacefox.bsky.social•37 days ago

The TIre

hoshigitsune.bsky.social•37 days ago

My tires had this too a few weeks back 🙃 the guy doing my vehicle inspection said if I hit a rock on that bulged spot it would have blown out the tire

foxscionofthewoods.bsky.social•37 days ago

You made me take a look at my tires right after work. Holy shit.

ultrajeri.bsky.social•37 days ago

I've driven on my front axle before (tire exploded on freeway) and this is still more shocking

LIKE was it a manufacturing error or were you Burning Rubber and it just ... Shaved down weird??

jackalcakes.bsky.social•37 days ago

I'm totally perplexed I'm going to show the fire guy soon and see what he says

feligris.bsky.social•37 days ago

It's a structural failure where the steel belt under the tread has failed, it can be a manufacturing defect but AFAIK typically caused by strong impacts like potholes or through aging (I've had summer tyres on the front axle fail the same way on a powerful FWD twice when they were at end-of-life).

jackalcakes.bsky.social•36 days ago

That's an interesting insight as these were also on a turbocharged FWD, and it is the front tire it happened on

feligris.bsky.social•37 days ago

Case in point, a belt failure years ago on my Saab 9-5 Aero's front tyre, it was a bumpy ride. o.o