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My Poor Tires! * with pics *

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Old Mar 29, 2005 | 01:22 AM
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The BF Goody'* I got in November are destroyed up front. I came out of the house to find my friend and his dad looking at my tires laughing. I was like whats going on? They where like, " do you have any idea what you did to you're tires?" I looked and Chunks of rubber where all over my wheel well and splashed up on my car like road spay. The tread, well over half gone. At that track I erased a good 10,000 miles of tread wear!! There goes another $500 down the shi**er.

Another one bits the dust do do do.
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Old Mar 29, 2005 | 01:26 AM
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Sounds like my tires except I royally f'd them up in 8k miles (damn alignment)
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Old Mar 29, 2005 | 01:53 AM
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We'll just let the smiley do the talking. The ranting and raving smiley.
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Old Mar 29, 2005 | 02:35 AM
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Pics please!
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Old Mar 29, 2005 | 10:55 AM
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I wouldn't be buying those again. But look again, and make sure it'* actually YOUR rubber. Most cars that go to a prepped track get sticky VHT and other people'* rubber on their car. All of us at Woodburn did last year.
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Old Mar 29, 2005 | 02:45 PM
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Allmachtige'* 98 looked like it had rhinolining on the rocker panels because he spun it so much on the passenger side.

BFG'* are great tires normally, they lasted a LONG time on our GMC (even after plenty of real offroading) from the abuse.

Or change ur driving habits. And ROTATE your tires.
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Old Mar 29, 2005 | 03:31 PM
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the BFG'* on our car are awsome...

Much better than the Michelins
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Old Mar 29, 2005 | 07:48 PM
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i cant rotate my tires i found out today, i have locking lug nuts.....


what do you suggest i do?
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Old Mar 29, 2005 | 07:53 PM
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Originally Posted by SSEi_MN
i cant rotate my tires i found out today, i have locking lug nuts.....


what do you suggest i do?
find somewhere to buy the piece to take the locking lug off.
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Take them to a tire shop. They'll remove them with a special tool in an impact wrench, or dig in your trunk for the key. I have mine, but don't use it. I removed the locking lugs.

Be careful rotating tires, especially if you have directional tread
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