Picked up a screw today in one of the Michelin’s on my '04 Camry. The screw is in the outermost tread about 1/4" away from the channel next to it (i.e., much closer to the channel than to the sidewall). Its under a road hazard warranty, and just a few months old. I bring the tire in for repair, t…

The bias ply belts determine the tread. The sidewalls have only the radial plies which don’t handle patches or plugs well.

The outer tread block is not repairable. The repairable area is the outer tread groves and the tread between them; [image]

I’m not opposed to getting a new tire. What burns me up is that I’ve done business with this shop for 30 years plus. He tells me I have to come back tomorrow with the car so he can verify the mileage. I ask if I can call home and get the mileage, he says not. The car’s an '04 with 114,000 miles …

If you have a road hazard warranty, it should cover the cost of a new tire, minus usage. Usage can be calculated by either miles driven/warranted miles or remaining tread depth/new tread depth. He may be required to see the odometer to confirm mileage. If the tires had a 80k mile warranty and you…

The point is that the dealer has to sign a statement as to the tires tread depth and the vehicles mileage at the time of replacing the damaged tire. He cannot just take your mileage over the phone and risk losing the ability to handle warranty problems. We live in a world of rules.

They want to see the vehicle in a effort to control fraud. There are people who will drop off their neighbors tire for a free replacement.

“We live in a world of rules.” Yes we do…and they are making more and more of them every day.

Often, more rules are a result of more creative criminal activities, like the tire fraud mentioned above. Should we just accept the criminal’s word for everything and make the cost of goods and services skyrocket for all of us? Proving a problem exits seems like a small price to pay for warranty se…

I think those of us that are honest tend to forget all the scammers & get frustrated at some of the hoops we have to jump through because of them .

Where does a tire's sidewall end and the trad begin?

Maintenance/Repairs

Barkydog July 2, 2016, 6:20am 12

2 Tire shops agreed this was toast. Nail in sidewall by strap, as Fri ninght for saturday vacation drivr, mounted the spare then a replacement tire,

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Where does a tire's sidewall end and the trad begin?

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