Recently, I had to buy 4 new tires on a roadtrip.
Cooper Discoverer AT3 30 x 9.5 x 15 Load range C.
Today, I noticed on one wheel, there is a lot of weights on the rim, both sides, in the same part of the rim. This rim is on the driver's side front at the moment. Obviously the New tire itself was way out of balance.
There is a slight vibration beginning about 55mph.
The tires have about 1700 miles on them since they were installed mostly 55mph+ highway miles.
I am several hundred miles away from the tire dealer( not a chain) and unlikely to be in that tiny town again anytime in the forseeable future.
How many weights are too many?
Is a sign of a badly made tire? Dangerous?
The other three New tires do not have very many or very large weights on them, just this one.
The weights on both sides of the rim say 200 100 and 25.
Same sizes and numbers on both sides of the rim. This can't be 11.5 oz of lead on each side so that those numbers can't be grams. I'll guess the weights if they are lead, justging by fishineg weights, total about 2 OZ on each side of th erim.
AnD to surprise exactly nobody, the Lug nuts on the fronts were severly overtorqued. My 220 LBs and a 18 inch breaker bar had to use about 98% of my strength to loosen the lugs. The Lug nuts threads were damaged, luckily the studs were not. On the rears 2 of the 5 on each rim were extremely overtorqued, the three remainders were undertorqued, I'll guess the tight ones were about 180+Ft LB, the looser ones about 65Ft/LB.
I installed all new lugs today using a torque wrench.
Should I just try and get this tire rebalanced or remounted and rebalanced or try and see if Cooper will do anything for me?
There is a red dot on the whitewall side of the tire( which is on the inside) but it does not align with the tire weights. DOT code is 1717 on the tire in question.
Cooper Discoverer AT3 30 x 9.5 x 15 Load range C.
Today, I noticed on one wheel, there is a lot of weights on the rim, both sides, in the same part of the rim. This rim is on the driver's side front at the moment. Obviously the New tire itself was way out of balance.
There is a slight vibration beginning about 55mph.
The tires have about 1700 miles on them since they were installed mostly 55mph+ highway miles.
I am several hundred miles away from the tire dealer( not a chain) and unlikely to be in that tiny town again anytime in the forseeable future.
How many weights are too many?
Is a sign of a badly made tire? Dangerous?
The other three New tires do not have very many or very large weights on them, just this one.
The weights on both sides of the rim say 200 100 and 25.
Same sizes and numbers on both sides of the rim. This can't be 11.5 oz of lead on each side so that those numbers can't be grams. I'll guess the weights if they are lead, justging by fishineg weights, total about 2 OZ on each side of th erim.
AnD to surprise exactly nobody, the Lug nuts on the fronts were severly overtorqued. My 220 LBs and a 18 inch breaker bar had to use about 98% of my strength to loosen the lugs. The Lug nuts threads were damaged, luckily the studs were not. On the rears 2 of the 5 on each rim were extremely overtorqued, the three remainders were undertorqued, I'll guess the tight ones were about 180+Ft LB, the looser ones about 65Ft/LB.
I installed all new lugs today using a torque wrench.
Should I just try and get this tire rebalanced or remounted and rebalanced or try and see if Cooper will do anything for me?
There is a red dot on the whitewall side of the tire( which is on the inside) but it does not align with the tire weights. DOT code is 1717 on the tire in question.