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<blockquote data-quote="ARlife4me" data-source="post: 3087427" data-attributes="member: 105694"><p>My son's 16 1/2 ton had very bad tire wear after a minor incident. Hit a deer, all air bags deployed causing him to go off the road hitting small trees before coming to a stop. All body work was done correctly. While it was there I requested the check alignment. They didn't as I found out later. About 10k miles later before I noticed his tires looked strange so I checked. The inside if both front tires were down to the belts. The insurance company didn't want to or declare it needed as I also fit later. I can't say I'm an expert mechanic, but I know a fair amount! I was told by 2 separate places the caster was off..... ya, like *** NO it isn't! I said no way both caster is off, it's toe due to wear patterns. Alignment proved me correct. The crappy thing is he could've got another 10-15k on the set. What ticks me off is this not being able to grease joints and ends. Another thing that a tire shop I go to always wants to put the thiner tires on the FRONT (yep, the front). Not me, I'd rather them be on the back. I've had many blowouts on the back at various speeds w/o control issues, but the 1 time it happened on the front was down right scary as <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="💩" title="Pile of poo :poop:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f4a9.png" data-shortname=":poop:" />!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ARlife4me, post: 3087427, member: 105694"] My son's 16 1/2 ton had very bad tire wear after a minor incident. Hit a deer, all air bags deployed causing him to go off the road hitting small trees before coming to a stop. All body work was done correctly. While it was there I requested the check alignment. They didn't as I found out later. About 10k miles later before I noticed his tires looked strange so I checked. The inside if both front tires were down to the belts. The insurance company didn't want to or declare it needed as I also fit later. I can't say I'm an expert mechanic, but I know a fair amount! I was told by 2 separate places the caster was off..... ya, like *** NO it isn't! I said no way both caster is off, it's toe due to wear patterns. Alignment proved me correct. The crappy thing is he could've got another 10-15k on the set. What ticks me off is this not being able to grease joints and ends. Another thing that a tire shop I go to always wants to put the thiner tires on the FRONT (yep, the front). Not me, I'd rather them be on the back. I've had many blowouts on the back at various speeds w/o control issues, but the 1 time it happened on the front was down right scary as 💩! [/QUOTE]
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