komp55

After tonight, I'm feeling blessed.

On a whim, I thought I'd swap out the wheels on my car to my other set of wheels, for a spring update look. When I removed the left rear wheel first, here's what I encountered:



I knew the tread on my rears was getting near the wear bars, but I had no idea I'd worn these tires down to the cord and beyond. The tread is literally beginning to separate from the tire carcass, and here I've been blissfully tooling around between 70 and 80 mph on the local freeways, completely unaware that at any given second, this tire could have simply completely disintegrated. Holy sh*t!!!!!!

Curiously, the right rear didn't have this kind of damage, although the tread is worn. But both fronts, even though they were showing decent tread in the middle, revealed this when I dismounted them from the car:





So in a nutshell, this set of Goodyear F1 Assymetrics is completely shot, and I'm lucky as hell that rear tire didn't blow out during a freeway run. This was a wake-up call for me to resume regular tire inspections. I'd become a slacker about it, and it could have cost me dearly. I was really glad to have a second set of rims with good tires on them available. And it's also time to have an alignment check done. But huge bullet dodged.

e1000

wow, good thing you caught it. I check my tires every time I wash my car.

motorkas

+1 glad you caught it time. I check my tires everytime I drive it (1. riding motorcycles has a tendency to make you a tire freak; 2. not a DD so sometimes it sits for a couple of days).

Once again, glad everything worked out. I'm curious as to whether or not you're going buy the Goodyears again?

GT40MkI

My old M5 used to eat through rear tires like crazy- these cars (especially lowered) eat away the inside...I had a few sets of PS2's that looked near new on the outside, and were cords on the inside 1/5th of the tire. Good catch-any idea how many miles were on it?

nickovic1

the same thing happened to me on my right front but a worse i was shocked and i drove back from san fansisco like that to chicago. they were also goodyear eagle f1 all season ill post a pic later.

tgoss

Man I am a little jealous! I just so happened to hit standing water (massive pothole) today and completely wrecked my rear wheel this morning! I'm glad someone got something good today!

Great catch

BLKCLK550

Same happened to me a few years back, my thread was still ok, but i decided to look at the tires and saw the same thing.

BelaMeca

i dont know how someone can not know that the tires are ****ed up.Don't you ever check your tires???

dacls63amg

What really, did you damage the barrel rims?

daniel3ooo

wow glad you found out before it blew

komp55

I've had a great experience with the Goodyears and will most likely buy them again, although I am tempted to try out some less expensive tires since I go through them so fast. The price and positive test results for the Hankooks make them tempting.

I didn't log exact mileage, but I would estimate around 17K, maybe slightly more. About a year's worth of daily driving.

I just did and made the discovery! Seriously, my car had a major service at my MB dealer only 3K miles ago, so either all this wear has happened in the last 3K miles, or the tech at the dealer didn't bother to inspect the tires. I assumed they checked the tires, because they report the remaining tread on the repair invoice. I knew the rear tires were shot treadwise (and that was one reason I was swapping sets of rims), but I'd never have suspected the front inner wear because there's probably a good 5 or 6/32nd tread remaining across the rest of the tires. There's no doubt that with a lowered car, you're going to have more negative camber and wear the inner tire tread way faster. As I said before, I'll definitely be on this now.

OXOJE55

You cought it just in time

novae500

i do a cursory check in the morning when i get into my car. Do more of all 4 when filling up gas since it takes awhile.

kompressede

It doesn't get any worse than that.

Hey you look at this way, you got used to the way car felt and handled with those tires, once you get new tires the car will feel a whole lot better.

Marcus Frost

komp I had almost the EXACT same thing happen to me with one of my front tires. The only reason I caught it was because I was parked in the driveway at my parents' house, with the wheel fully cocked to one way. A gentlemen who was over pointed it out to me and said "You're tire looks pretty worn!" - I looked at the very inside of the tire and sure enough, looked almost identical to yours. Pretty scary stuff.

-m

CharlyE500

Glad you found ealier because the 55 drivers dont drive slow normaly...
Check tires every week and be Safe !