Anyone who has large tires or a heavy vehicle (any SuperDuty truck) should index their tires to their wheels immediatly after getting a new set mounted. Do it before you drive the vehicle from the service bay or hit the brakes hard.
Both my rear tires (35x12.50x18 load-E) slipped about a foot in their wheels, and the fronts slipped an inch or so.
Balance shot.
I would never have known since I had just paid to have my new set of tires balanced along with their purchase, except I was 'lucky' enough to witness the tires spin in the wheels !!.
Tire installers can over soap HEAVY tires in an effort to get them to mount easier. Human nature. This can/will cause them to slip as you then happily drive down the road.
From talking to a few tire shops in my area, they were seemingly generally reluctant to admit that it happens, yet each one of them had a couple stories to tell.
Don't wait till you've put 10,000 miles on $1500 worth of rubber before you start wondering why the ride is bad. Index your new mounted tires yourself and keep an eye on them for a couple days.
Mine were rebalanced two days later on their nickle. I watched this time and indexed.
http://marktg.toyotires.com/file/rimslip.pdf
Both my rear tires (35x12.50x18 load-E) slipped about a foot in their wheels, and the fronts slipped an inch or so.
Balance shot.
I would never have known since I had just paid to have my new set of tires balanced along with their purchase, except I was 'lucky' enough to witness the tires spin in the wheels !!.
Tire installers can over soap HEAVY tires in an effort to get them to mount easier. Human nature. This can/will cause them to slip as you then happily drive down the road.
From talking to a few tire shops in my area, they were seemingly generally reluctant to admit that it happens, yet each one of them had a couple stories to tell.
Don't wait till you've put 10,000 miles on $1500 worth of rubber before you start wondering why the ride is bad. Index your new mounted tires yourself and keep an eye on them for a couple days.
Mine were rebalanced two days later on their nickle. I watched this time and indexed.
http://marktg.toyotires.com/file/rimslip.pdf
