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#100742 - 12/18/08 01:20 PM Re: umm my cars shaking not cool
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I would have the tires checked out just to be on the safe side. It could be a safety thing. My mom's Explorer got a bad tire once that started acting like that, and it was due to the tread separating (whatever that means). The tire had to be replaced.

Even if it's not something like that, don't sell a possibly defective car to someone else, that's just a jack*** thing to do. You wouldn't want it done to you, would you?
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#100743 - 12/18/08 02:09 PM Re: umm my cars shaking not cool
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Agree with Acefighter. Go read my Update on Belen thread. Dont sell a bad car to someone.
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#100744 - 12/18/08 08:41 PM Re: umm my cars shaking not cool
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ill tell the about it, i was kidding but the problem has seem to solved itself....
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#100745 - 12/19/08 10:32 AM Re: umm my cars shaking not cool
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You can also be sued for failing to disclose. You might be able to claim ignorance for this, but a bad paint job, for example, is fair game.
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#100746 - 12/19/08 11:53 PM Re: umm my cars shaking not cool
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Tread seperation- the plys in the tires actually start to either seperate from each other or break apart themselves making the tread split.

For a few years there were hundreds possibly thousands of recalls on Explorer tires. Ford really screwed up using the tires they knew were bad.
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#100747 - 12/20/08 01:13 PM Re: umm my cars shaking not cool
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It wasn't so much the tires were bad as it was that Ford was underinflating them.
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#100748 - 12/20/08 06:31 PM Re: umm my cars shaking not cool
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People go all the time with underinflated tires. Most of the time without knowing the difference. But you have to have something wrong with the tire itself to have THAT many recalls on the tires.

If it was as simple as underinflation they could have left messages or sent mail out going "Hey, put more air in your tires." Heck, a 10 second commercial would have worked as well.

The tires were bad and they knew it. Ford put the tires on the cars and kept it hush hush. It wasnt untill multiple major accidents occured and they were about to get sued that they issued the recalls.
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#100749 - 12/20/08 08:00 PM Re: umm my cars shaking not cool
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I'm pretty sure there were plenty of other vehicles on the road with those same tires that weren't having the same degree of problem, but I could be wrong.
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#100750 - 12/20/08 08:11 PM Re: umm my cars shaking not cool
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Originally posted by Zalfrin:
It wasn't so much the tires were bad as it was that Ford was underinflating them.
If your talking about the huge ford recall a few years ago due to deaths from roll overs, that was the cheap Firestone tires tred serperating in warmer climates and causing them to blow out rolling over the vehicle...

Firestone has had a LONG LONG LONG history of bad tires and tread seperating issues. All I know is I will NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER own a set of firestone tires.
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#100751 - 12/21/08 12:54 AM Re: umm my cars shaking not cool
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Right, it was Firestone, not Ford...I'm in one of those "warmer climates." lol
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#100752 - 12/22/08 07:33 PM Re: umm my cars shaking not cool
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I have firestones on my Jeep. 50,000 miles and no problems. Ford knew the tires were crap and put them on anyway.
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#100753 - 12/22/08 08:21 PM Re: umm my cars shaking not cool
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I've ran firestone firehawks with no issues for a long time. No issues.
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#100754 - 12/22/08 08:23 PM Re: umm my cars shaking not cool
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Quote:
Originally posted by ifitwasnt4u:
Quote:
Originally posted by Zalfrin:
[b] It wasn't so much the tires were bad as it was that Ford was underinflating them.
If your talking about the huge ford recall a few years ago due to deaths from roll overs, that was the cheap Firestone tires tred serperating in warmer climates and causing them to blow out rolling over the vehicle...

Firestone has had a LONG LONG LONG history of bad tires and tread seperating issues. All I know is I will NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER own a set of firestone tires. [/b]
At one time, in Savannah, I had Bridgestone BT70S on Colleen, and am riding on Bridestone Potenzas now. Both models of tires have seen duty in New Mexico, and the Potenzas had seen summer duty in Phoenix. Not even a small inkling of an idea of wanting to maybe go bad. I dont completely agree with that statement, but with a multi-industry recall, there is obviously a fault somewhere.
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