6mil928

If you guys buy a used car check the tires over good. The new BMW I just bought had one bad tire on it due to a bad strut and wheel bearing. The parts were changed before I bought the car but the tire was not. The guy told me about it so I checked it out. I felt the tire and it just felt worn down and not bad. I drove the car home from Dallas (2.5 Hrs away) doing more than 70 mph all the way. The car started pulling to the left more and more so I thought I'd check the tire out a bit more thorough. Here's what I found. Another close call for sure

cold_beer839

That one has at least another 10k of miles in it!!

pscottjr

Holy smoke!!!! Glad you made it home safely. After I bought my shark, I noticed a slight pull and the inside left front tire was a mess. Not as bad as th one in your photos.

WallyP

I was getting more and more unhappy with the tires on Lynn's Suburban - noisy, rough riding, etc., so I bought a set of Michelins, even though the tires still had about half the tread left. When I pulled the tires off (I do my own mounting and balancing), I discovered small cracks running around the rim on the inner side of the tire (not the inside of the tire). When I bent the tire at the crack, I could see the sidewall cords had completely parted - nothing was holding the tire together except the inner liner! The cracks were virtually invisible until the tires were dismounted.

I looked more closely at the tires, and discovered in very small letters, "Made in China"...

6mil928

Ouch

mark kibort

my bmw was doing this in the rear. now, for some reason its not.
my fronts were doing the inside edge wear thing, so i put in some toe in.

dont think that is a wheel bearing issue. (you would have to have some REAL loose bearings). probably not a strut issue, unless the lower control arms had bad bushings and were causing toe out.
mk

Nicole

As the owner of a van with a bald front tire once told me: "It lasted four years, and will last another four"...

6mil928

Not sure if that was the truth or not Mark that's just what the guy told me. They seemed like pretty genuine people.

robot808

That's patchable.

Sharks

If you think that is scary, take a look at this ....

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4826897

I checked all of our vehicles, the 928 rears are 7 years old.'
You know what that means, more so I can get some new ones.