How bald have you let your tires go? Rear Tires....
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i've gone to 'bout where you are. when I can take a normal turn and I spin bad on low accel. then its time to change. But I keep my good tires in the front. Need to be able to turn/handle in the 1st place.
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I've gone that far, maybe a little further. But having a blowout would probably cause more $$ in damage than buying a couple of new tires. Acutally now that I think about it, I haven't replaced tires since 1998. I buy a new vehilce, put some rims on it, and when those tires wear out, I trade the vehicle in. I gotta quit doing that
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Mine are a bit more bald than yours. They almost look like mini slicks but don't grip like'em
. I'm just waiting on some $$ so when I start driving it in the spring I can afford a new set of rims and tires. Luckily I dont have to drive it in the winter.
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I was waiting till I could widen my rear Firehawk rims to 11 inches. Somebody gave me two tires for free with 50% tread that I'll burn down over the spring.
Then I'll have the wide rims and spring for rubber all around.
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Originally Posted by BIG_MIKE2005
Gotcha beat. Here is the set I just took off about a month or so ago. Both rears looked like this. You can see the tire starting to separate.
![](http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b281/BIG_MIKE2005/MY%20WS6/PC190019.jpg)
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Now thats bald.
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Now thats bald.
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Originally Posted by FIREHAWK#608
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Haha, I got you guys beat, I ran a 245/40/18 runflat until the wires popped out, and then a few days later the tire SPLIT but it support itself enough to get home. I know it wasn't safe, but I couldn't afford new tires at the time and I was only doing local sub 40mph driving at the time.
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Originally Posted by HAWK915
I thought I had been pushing it before changing my tires but I have not even come close to what I have seen in this thread! Joshua, lets take those bald tires for a ride in the mountains.
What new wheels are you looking at?
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I'm not getting different wheels, I'm just having chrome Firehawk rears widened from 9 to 11 inches.