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Tire Tread & Car Alignment

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From Quick Guide: Alignment Basics

Summary: Check the tread on your tires to see if the alignment has worn them unevenly. Learn to judge tire tread from an auto mechanic in this free auto repair video.

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By Mitch Jones
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Mitch Jones has been working on cars as a hobby and made it into a career over the past 11 years. Jones specializes in European vehicles, but can fix most problems on any make and...read more

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"Now I'm going to speak about tire tread on your vehicle. Now as you can see here this is a pretty much a brand new tire so this has got; this has got a good amount of tread on it so what you, there's an old; the old trick that older fellows teach you, you can take a penny and then stick Abraham Lincoln down in there and you can barely see his face then you have like a good amount of tread. But as far as this other tire I have here; as you can see the tread is almost completely gone. Then another thing by looking at a tread you can also see how like your own alignment in how your vehicle sits; as you can see the back side of this tire is almost completely worn out so that would mean that the car is sitting this way and that will cause the tire to wear unevenly. So pretty much if you were to go get your car inspected; you would not be able to get the car inspected with this tire on. It's a; you want to make sure you have the proper alignment on your vehicle whenever you do, get new tires so that they're not wearing unevenly because sometimes if the alignment is off very badly you will get a wavy fashion across the tread and this is another problem; this could cause a vibration as you're driving down the street from this being chopped up in this fashion and that's usually what they call tire chop. So this tire looks pretty good right here and this is how your tire should look, and this seems to have even wear. And that concludes dealing with tire tread on the automotive vehicle."

eHow Article: Tire Tread & Car Alignment

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