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 Post subject: New tire break in
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How do you guys break in a new set of tires?

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 Post subject: Re: New tire break in
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I drive home from the tire shop. :D

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BigManAndy wrote:
I drive home from the tire shop. :D


Apparently that's what everyone does, as no one else has replied. :D

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 Post subject: Re: New tire break in
PostPosted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 2:16 pm 
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I don't think a regular tire needs a "break in". When I have ordered R Compound race tires I would spend the extra money and have tire rack head cycle them for me so I did not need to break them in.

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VictorSmalls wrote:
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I don't think a regular tire needs a "break in". When I have ordered R Compound race tires I would spend the extra money and have tire rack head cycle them for me so I did not need to break them in.


On the tire rack site I found where it says 500 miles.. Thats like forever.

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as said, normal street tires are pretty good to go as mounted.

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Pull into your local Walmart parking lot, apply the parking brake and put the accelerator to the floor. Go home rotate the tires, return to Walmart and repeat. ;-)















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I was told by the guy at TR that most standard street tire are good to go as mounted.

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dsh1106 wrote:
Pull into your local Walmart parking lot, apply the parking brake and put the accelerator to the floor. Go home rotate the tires, return to Walmart and repeat. ;-)

:d I was going to try that McDonalds tray thing where you do the same thing except you have trays under the back wheels. Anyway i received them this morning. Moda MD6 wheels 18x8" with 235/50 Continental Extreme D&W.















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I was told by the guy at TR that most standard street tire are good to go as mounted.

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dsh1106 wrote:
Pull into your local Walmart parking lot, apply the parking brake and put the accelerator to the floor. Go home rotate the tires, return to Walmart and repeat. ;-)















J/K

I was told by the guy at TR that most standard street tire are good to go as mounted.



This must be true! Every time I'm at Walmart, I hear squealing tires coming from somewhere in the parking lot. Never fails.

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BigManAndy wrote:
dsh1106 wrote:
Pull into your local Walmart parking lot, apply the parking brake and put the accelerator to the floor. Go home rotate the tires, return to Walmart and repeat. ;-)

I wondered why that was.















J/K

I was told by the guy at TR that most standard street tire are good to go as mounted.



This must be true! Every time I'm at Walmart, I hear squealing tires coming from somewhere in the parking lot. Never fails.

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F-Body brakes, 18" Moda wheels with 235/50ZR18 Conti DW..
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