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Title: What the hell is on this tire?
Post by: CasiUSA on July 09, 2007, 08:25:04 AM
(http://i8.ebayimg.com/07/i/000/a8/49/c47d_1.JPG)

I am getting a used set of tires for next to nothing, and want to know what the heck these are.
Are those nail holes, blisters or what?
Title: Re: That the hell is on this tire?
Post by: bettingpython on July 09, 2007, 08:33:44 AM
Those appear to be tread depth wear bars. I doubt those are nail holes odds are they were molded in this manner.

Looks like some directional high performance tires; what are they going on?
Title: Re: That the hell is on this tire?
Post by: CasiUSA on July 09, 2007, 08:36:47 AM
05 Nissan Maxima. The OEM Tires got recalled for sidewall cracking, but I had already replaced them for that reason. Stupid Goodyear won't honor a reimbursement because I have no proof of why the tires were replaced (With other Goodyears nonetheless  :mad: :mad: :mad:).
Title: Re: What the hell is on this tire?
Post by: simon79 on July 09, 2007, 09:21:13 AM
+1 to bettingpython.

Tread Wear Indicators, on my opinion too.

their pattern seems too regular to me for being holes-punctures-nails-blisters or the like. :cheers:
Title: Re: What the hell is on this tire?
Post by: ashman on July 09, 2007, 09:34:47 AM
goose bumps.
Title: Re: That the hell is on this tire?
Post by: CasiUSA on July 09, 2007, 10:06:14 AM
Wait- if those are tread wear bars, does that mean the tire is done or close to it?
Sorry- I've just never used anything more than the old Lincoln head gauge...
Title: Re: What the hell is on this tire?
Post by: darb85 on July 09, 2007, 10:42:35 AM
If the tread is even with the little bumps, tread is gone. 
Title: Re: What the hell is on this tire?
Post by: ben2go on July 09, 2007, 12:38:11 PM
Frog pissed on it and gave it warts.  :laugh:  :laugh:  :laugh:  :laugh:  :laugh:  :laugh:  :laugh:  :laugh:  :laugh:  :laugh:  :laugh:  :laugh:  :laugh:  :laugh:
Title: Re: What the hell is on this tire?
Post by: makenzie71 on July 09, 2007, 01:27:32 PM
What kind of tires are they?  It's hard for us to guess what's going on when we don't really know what we're looking at.
Title: Re: What the hell is on this tire?
Post by: natedawg120 on July 09, 2007, 04:55:12 PM
its just acne, it happens when tires get to that age... :laugh: :laugh:
Title: Re: What the hell is on this tire?
Post by: ben2go on July 09, 2007, 07:46:01 PM
Quote from: natedawg120 on July 09, 2007, 04:55:12 PM
its just acne, it happens when tires get to that age... :laugh: :laugh:


Puberty is hell on tires.  :laugh:  :laugh:  :laugh:  :laugh:  :laugh:  :laugh: