I was speeding up to pass a box truck and the f*ckr cut me off! I had NO room! I had to stand on the brakes big time..... besides the fact that the jerk almost killed me I now I have freak'n flat spots. Damn! thud... thud... thud... thud... thud I guess I'm gonna have to "burn 'em off" to round 'em out again. Any other suggestions?

 

Spin them or new tires

 

hehe.... easy for you to say

 

find a race tire shop that shaves tires. shave them till they're round again.

 

I actually thought of that BUT how am I gonna find a race tire shop? They ain't exactly 'round every corner.

 

Well it is easy, you just rev a little dump the clutch and nail the gas. It will smoke them about 30 feet LOL

 

Yeah...On your car Mike...

~T.J.

 

I'd be surprised if he even had to dump the clutch...... a little gas would probably do it.

 

I wonder if RT Performance in Great Meadows will do that...

 

New tires, or live with it.

Shaving the tires won't be cheap, and if the flat spotting is bad enough to really feel then the tread would have to be REALLY chopped, leaving with practically nothing.

 

Just do a bunch of burnouts, put down oil or something. make sure to take pics too.

 

Actually, burnouts won't make it much better, because the tires will hop up a little after it launches out of the float spot, and you end up with an even worse flat spot

 

Yeah, I did quite possibly the biggest burnout ever done by a 2.4L slushbox Grand Am after doing a nice ebrake slide in my mom's old car.

I put the severly flat spotted rear tires up front, roasted them on a hill for about 35 minutes total (about 2-3 minutes at a time, except for one that was about 10 minutes, since the other ones had little effect).

I just wound up with galled up, melted looking, flat-spotted tires.

 

Oh well.... I'm glad they're cheap 13" Sumitomo's

 

look at it this way, if you locked 'em up that bad and didn't get the car hit ... you're quite lucky replacing just Sumitomo's and not an Rx-7 ...

boy, if i had nickel for everytime an 18-wheeler decided to change lanes on me ...

i'm just EXTREMELY glad this wasn't a crash story ...

peace,
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Thanks! So am I! Believe me, it was close, real close. Let just say that the guy in the truck almost crapped his pants too.

 

LOL Unfortunately, not any more, my car runs like Poo Poo

 

I can smoke my old 165s down my whole street. my 205 khumos I can spin hard off the line but barely any smoke.

 

You have any pics you want to share? lol