Help Identifying Tyre Damage

[MACK]

They look like they've been used previously on a 1980s Delorean fitted with a Flux Capacitor!

 

[Z4M-2006]

If i was to look at it without knowing any history,i would have put money on it being damage from a high speed lock up.

But then you'd get two 'matching' marks on the two front tyres?

Not necessarily.

 

[ph001]

....but thinking about it, there re usually two rollers either side of the normal road contact area. So agree it doesn’t really tie up. Ok, I’m back to Roland Rat!

 

[firebobby]

If i was to look at it without knowing any history,i would have put money on it being damage from a high speed lock up.

But then you'd get two 'matching' marks on the two front tyres?

Not necessarily.

If one wheel locked enough to do that damage and not the other, the car would have pulled to one side like a pig :|

 

[Z4M-2006]

Or it was unweighted on one corner or heading into a bend

 

[john-e89]

OP has stated the tyres were new last summer with 2k miles on and not mentioned a lock up which would have been the obvious cause.....back to the head scratching chaps..... :spy:

 

[exdos]

Stigbew,

If I were you, I'd take that tyre back to the supplier along with your receipt and make a complaint against the manufacturer. That tyre doesn't look as though it's been gnawed by any form of rodent, nor does it look as though it's been in a lock up. There is no evidence of directional "smearing" that would've occurred if the damage had been caused by braking.The rubber looks as though its just softened and merged the blocks in the tread on one patch of the tyre as if that section of rubber has not set properly when the tyre was manufactured.

 

[john-e89]

Stigbew,

If I were you, I'd take that tyre back to the supplier along with your receipt and make a complaint against the manufacturer. That tyre doesn't look as though it's been gnawed by any form of rodent, nor does it look as though it's been in a lock up. There is no evidence of directional "smearing" that would've occurred if the damage had been caused by braking.The rubber looks as though its just softened and merged the blocks in the tread on one patch of the tyre as if that section of rubber has not set properly when the tyre was manufactured.

Two thousand miles of wear says they’ll laugh him off the phone id think....you’ve locked up and worn a patch sir....prove you haven’t....goodbye.

 

[Andrew Sheldon]

I must have studied that tyre for nearly an hour last night, at one stage I thought it might be squirrels but their speciality is the plastic insulation on wiring Worked at a school where the prefab school building wiring was absolutely shredded by the pesky creatures. But I kind of agree with the theory that it must be some form of natural degradation, be it originating from the manufacturing stage or some chemical spill.. This is a tough one that no one has really cracked yet...…

 

[Umfaan]

I think it was was PFM that caused it .......

 

[exdos]

Two thousand miles of wear says they’ll laugh him off the phone id think....you’ve locked up and worn a patch sir....prove you haven’t....goodbye.

It depends on how good you are at complaining. 8)

I took a set of Contis back to a supplier about a year after they'd put them on my Z4MC just after I got the car after I'd belatedly noticed that the tyres were over 4years old when they were fitted. No problem, they took them off the car and discounted the price I'd paid from a new set of PSSs they fitted.

I know of others being dissatisfied with the wear rate on tyres and the Manufacturers giving refunds or replacements.

The key to successful complaining is "Durability" and it's only with the passage of time and the amount of use that this can be assessed. IMO, the OP's tyre is showing that it has failed quality control in some way.

 

[BeeEmm]

What's the screw like thing in the picture? Zoom in.