RE: TV tire question

[bikolee]

 
Let me first start off saying that my Dakota only has rear wheel ABS.
 
 A few months ago driving home from work, I had to stand on the brakes to keep from hitting this jack***.  The front wheels locked up big time.  Well now I have flat spots on the tires. I have rotated them in an X pattern and tried spinning the you know what out them in an effort to round them back out. No luck.
 
 Any ideas?
 
 Should this have been in the fixit forum?

[Jeffrey]

 bikolee
My Safari was out of alignment last year.
 And it messed up the tread just in one spot on both front tires.
 (I know, strange it was only in one spot?)
 
 After over a year of use in the back, they are still messed up.
 They thump when I drive, certain roads are worse than others.
 
 It drives me nutz, so I dont they think will ever straighten out.
 
 There is still alot of tread on them, so I don t want to toss them yet.
 So I don t have an answer, but know what you mean.

[mike4947]

 bikolee
Ask at any good alignment shop (and yes tires are part of the alignment) and they ll tell you to replace the tires. The only way to " true up"  a flat spotted tire is to litterally put the tire and wheel on a lathe and CUT the tread back into a circle. The problem is you remove so much tread the tire s almost " worn out"  when you finish and that s only if it s an actual flat spot on the tread and not a shifted ply inside the carcass of the tire.
 Just beware of " tire manufacturer stores"  The mechanics are on profit sharing and will " sugjest that everything on your vehicle needs replacing at their " premium price" .

[bikolee]

 mike4947
Thanks Mike. I figured that replacing them was going to be the only way to solve the problem. I hate to do it now though, because like Jeffrey s they still have good tread on them. I guess I should replace those two before I start towing the camper this year. Would hate to have one come apart driving down the road.

[Tim5055]

 bikolee
Do you still have a new one on the spare??
 
 If so you could always swap rims and put the best of the flat ones on the spare.  That way you only need to buy one.

[bikolee]

 tim5055
Only problem there Tim is that they won t match.

[tlhdoc]

 bikolee
The flat spot is caused by the tread being left on the road in the form of a skid mark.  Spinning them will not make the tire round.  You are going to have to get new tires if you want to have tires with a good tread on them.[]