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Model specific boards => Golf mk3 => Topic started by: search on 22 May 2012, 22:23

Title: Sounds like im running a flat but im not :-/
Post by: search on 22 May 2012, 22:23: So yeah got a used tyre put on today and since they put it on it actually sounds like im running a flat. but i'm actually not as i'v checked all the tyre pressures. Very strange. anyone any clue what it could be.
Title: Re: Sounds like im running a flat but im not :-/
Post by: murraymint on 22 May 2012, 22:28: Are they lower profile?
Title: Re: Sounds like im running a flat but im not :-/
Post by: Screech16v on 22 May 2012, 22:36: Castlated tyre? jack it up and run your hand over the tread,feel for uneven tread surface,spin the wheel and look carfully for deformation :smiley:
Title: Re: Sounds like im running a flat but im not :-/
Post by: search on 22 May 2012, 22:47: standard 195/50/15s not sure on the wheel make to dark to go look now. but yeah ill jack car up tomorrow and look. ill even change the wheels round see if that helps. just strange how i never had it before they replaced the tyre.
Title: Re: Sounds like im running a flat but im not :-/
Post by: thai-wronghorse on 23 May 2012, 00:18: I wouldn't be surprised if the tyre had a flat spot after been removed from a long standing scrap vehicle.
Title: Re: Sounds like im running a flat but im not :-/
Post by: search on 23 May 2012, 18:52: Quote from: thai-wronghorse on 23 May 2012, 00:18
I wouldn't be surprised if the tyre had a flat spot after been removed from a long standing scrap vehicle.

how would i know if its got a flat spot?
Title: Re: Sounds like im running a flat but im not :-/
Post by: Bandit127 on 24 May 2012, 22:31: I can't help thinking Thai is talking about the sort of flat spot that happens on cars that are stood up for ages. The type that you can get rid of with a foot pump...

Certainly stood up tyres don't wear unevenly...

I see marks in the fast lane of the M3 that look like someone has been larking about with the handbrake at silly speeds though - that will give you a flat spot...

TBH I would probably be concerned enough about it to want it off my motor. I have no idea what is causing it but my brain would certainly spend too much time on wondering what the possibilities were that £60 or so for a new one would be economical relief IYKWIM...