OUCH!!!, An expensive joy ride Options

[Carlitos Way]

Well, I decided I couldn't let my teener sit for another day and decided to take a nice cruise down Box Canyon and the Santa Susana Pass. Something didn't seem right, so I let off the engine and didn't really push it most of the way. On the way back, I could hear something in the tires didn't seem right... so I slowed down even more. I even pulled over and took a look at the tires, thinking one had gone soft. Didn't find any problems, so I kept going.

Back into town, and thinking it's time to take it home and take a deeper look. POP!!! All of a sudden the right front tire blew... Doing about 50 in a commercial area. Pulled over, and sure enough, right front tire blew.

But that wasn't the worst part of it. Somehow, something flew up (a chunk of the tire?) and hit the right door... left a really "nice" circular mark right in the middle of my door. It almost looks like a racing circle... except without the numbers.

So I had the car towed to the shop and purchased 4 new tires. Noticed that the PO had the aligment so bad, that the tires wore through on the inside. Down to the steel belts, but only on the second thread from the inside.

Now the next challenge is, finding the right place to do the alighment. Unfortunately, the only place "my mechanic" trusts for alignment is the dealer. I'm thinking this is gonna be expensive.

Any suggestions?

[ArtechnikA]

QUOTE (cmolina @ Jan 31 2005, 02:13 PM)

Pardon the ignorance... but what's a "corner balance"?

time for another refresher course in "the use of the SEARCH" function.

when you find yourself thinking "surely i am not the first person who asked this question" probably you are right.

click Search. type in "corner AND balance". select a time frame of interest, such as the past year. click "perform the search". wait a moment as thousands of posts are searched. observe the 3 pages of posts on corner weighting.

for example.

not picking on you.

lots of people could answer their own questions if they'd just look for the answer that was already posted the last time the question came up.