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Ok, so a couple of days ago, I stopped by a Discount Tire store to get some prices on some tires for my wife's little Camary that she absolutely loves. The counter person does his usual stuff and goes out to check the tread depth. He comes back inside and looks a little weird, and says "You are going to get 2 tires today aren't you?!" I said "Not today but in the next couple of days why?" He then proceedes to tell that the front 2 tires are shot as in not tread. I was rather skeptical because I had rotated them a couple months back when I did the brake job on it. He implored me that If I must drive it, to please use the back roads and not the interstate to get either to my shop or home until I can get the tires replaced. I said alright and proceeded to have them get the tires ordered in and I'd be back. So Wednesday when I was getting off work, the wife called me up and asked me to bring a gas can and jumper cables for one of the doctors she works with. He had broke down on I-65 he had called her office. So I grabbed everything she asked for and of I ran, I should mention that I was driving her car, Anyway, I had to turn around (I did it legally ;)) and on the return trip the speedo hit 80mph (in a 70 zone). Turned out he was just out of gas :mullet:
So yesterday I stop at the tire shop to drop the car off and while waiting for my boss to swing by, they had removed the old tires and wheels. Below are a few pics of what we were driving on.





This is only the begining

More wonderful pics





I get a couple of pics of what replaced these. We had put 32k + miles on these tires as they were on the car when we purchased it.

Here's the new shoes :D





Now I guess I'll have to paint the drums and rotors  :punchballs:  :hick:

I'd be wondering what caused the tires to wear on the edge like that.

Good lookin' car...we drove a Camry for a while, no complaints from me.

Thanks. We haven't had any real complaints either. I've picked up some new Monroe sense-a-trac "Quick Kit" struts and am going to replace it all this weekend and Monday get it re-aligned. Should take care of whatever the problem is.

Yeah, definitely should have the alignment checked. I see you were running BF Goodrich tires. I have run the BFG Traction T/A on the wife's 2001 Accord with good luck. We got 65K miles on the last pair. They aren't making the Traction T/A anymore in the size we need for the Accord. I got Yokohama Envigors this last time. We will see how they do.

I once replaced struts and tie-rods and was too broke to get an alignment afterwards. My tires looked like that after a few months.

Maybe your wife's been doing crazy doughnuts in the parking lot at work ;).

I picked up the strut kits today along with new swaybar end links. I'll get an alignment on Monday.


LOL, Na, she gets dizzy easily

thats crazy tread wear.....im glad you guys are ok, and no accidents!

Thanks David. I hear ya on the tread wear, the tires don't lean in at all. The pressure was were it was supposed to be.

I replaced the BFG's with Arizonia's Silver Editions. The wife likes the way they look  :mullet:  They are pretty quiet, handle the rain and snow pretty good as well. She had also choose them for our Tempo. Although the ones on the Tempo were made by Kelly and the current models are made by Cooper.

I got the struts kits installed and had it aligned. The toe on the right front was WAY out. It now rides and handles like a new car :D The wife is extremely pleased.

Toe-in can't be way out on only one wheel, it divides equally once the car is moving, which will make steering wheel off center...