My GY assurance is noisy as heck. It has a vee style pattern. Is the noise anyway related to rotating them so they roll forward or reverse? I know they are not directional, but nothing affects sound/rolling characteristics?
Not in my area. Two tire dealers wouldn’t even mount 2 tires on different wheels that were10 years and 2 months old when I was buying 2 new ones from them. I’m eighty and mounted them myself. Consider yourself lucky.
That’s because they knew that those aged tires were no longer safe.
I figure if you made it to 80 you might be on to something.
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My grandpa was still doing concrete and remodeling houses well past 80. Some years ago it must have been, a tires plus or one of those places advertised free rotation. Don’t remember if if had a vibration or what it was but just wanted the rotation to identify the location. Planned to get new tires in the near future. At any rate had me wait quite a while in the morning, the mad3 an afternoon appt. It was close to work. At any rate when it was close to my turn again the guy wanted to know if they were 3s, 4 s , or what and said the guys wouldn’t even touch a 3 or less. I sat down how would I know and said forget it. Who needs the abuse?
These franchise places have p9licy manuals, training programs, and think they are making managers out of them and instead are just lousy clerks.
Someone asked Elon how the gov could help encourage entrepreneurs. He said you shouldn’t try. If they are not already motivated, it will be wasted effort. I agree.
Yes, that is the excuse. Way more dangerous than if they were 9 years and 10 months. Always garaged, , temperate climate zone, parade car, no checks and pliable. Declaring stuff unsafe without looking at it is absurd. Bet you think TSA theater make us safer too.
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Completely different scenario then just they won’t sell you one tire. You didn’t mention the part about the tires being 10 years old. That’s not the same as the tire shop just no selling 1 tire. As I said they do it all the time. But when the tire’s are 10 years old…that’s a completely different game.
The one tire incident was on my then 18 month old Camry that had a road damage failure . The nearest Fiestone dealer was 2 hours away. The 10 year old tires were on my 69 Chevelle this suimmer. See my response to someone else in this thread. ( You seem to have a need to be right.)
Tire noise is quite complicated, but the gist is that for new tires, changing the direction of rotation has a small effect, and in worn tires it has a still small, but larger effect, but in worn tires, the position on the vehicle has an even larger effect. But none of those is going to turn a noisy tire into a quiet tire.
So rotate your tires and see if the noise level changes. If it does, get an alignment. If it doesn’t, then you are stuck with noisy tires.
Are you sure they are not directional? I would think the V would point forward, just like farm tractor tires.
How old is that tire ? Goodyear hasn’t made that tire for 5 or 6 years
Sis got them at Costco. 2016 date code. 30k miles?
They are not new. That’s true.
I don’t understand. Is it the wheels or tires that were 10 years old? No reputable tire dealer would mount 10 year old tires on any wheels. 10 year old wheels would be OK, they can be visually inspected for damage, whereas 10 year old tires are usually rotten… and the rot is not apparent until they’ve blown out.
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