Hit a huge ass pot hole at 50mph... is this bad?
02-14-14, 09:10 AM
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I had an almost identical bubble in my tire after hitting a pothole. Took it back to discount tire where I bought them 2 years earlier and they replaced it free of charge even though I did not buy the extended warrenty. Fell under the manufactures warrenty. I would push hard for a free tire.
02-14-14, 09:18 AM
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Well, the tires were put on the car by the Lexus Dealer, when I bought the car in December. Would you suggest I contact them? I do not have any paper work for the tires, so I do not know where Lexus purchased them.
02-14-14, 12:00 PM
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Of course--if it wasn't for that "defective" wheel, the tire wouldn't have bubbled, and he wouldn't have needed an alignment. And--those installers should have seen the wheel was "defective" when they installed the tires 2 months ago. 
02-14-14, 12:01 PM
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It doesn't matter who supplies Lexus--they don't run down to Pep Boys when they have a tire install to buy the tires for your car. They are, in effect, the tire shop.
02-24-14, 04:02 AM
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Just replaced my tire this weekend because of the exact same BS, hit a pot hole a couple months back on the highway Near DC... (DC has ****ty roads)... The weather started to get warmer and it started to bubble.
Now here is the "awesome" part, if you have an AWD vehicle, you will need to repair all tires at once because 1/8th will throw off the comptuer that regulates power to the diff and can mess it up because of how the rotations and tread depth, however if the tires are less then 5k miles on them, according to the tech at lexus, you can replace just the one, which I did with the original Dunlap (don't recommend BTW) and pray to the car god that the Diff dosen't mess up down the road. (recommend tires: pirelli P7)
Anyways morale of the story, replace the tire just be wary if you have an AWD system and go to replace tires that are over 5k miles on them. (just google, there are plenty of articles on this topic)
Also if you got the tires after you purchased your car from lexus, you have the Road Hazard warranty which bascially is the 1st year they will replace your tire for free and the 2nd year its a 50/50.
(I know this was posted a couple of weeks ago, I just wanted to point that out since I just did that this weekend)
Best of luck.
Now here is the "awesome" part, if you have an AWD vehicle, you will need to repair all tires at once because 1/8th will throw off the comptuer that regulates power to the diff and can mess it up because of how the rotations and tread depth, however if the tires are less then 5k miles on them, according to the tech at lexus, you can replace just the one, which I did with the original Dunlap (don't recommend BTW) and pray to the car god that the Diff dosen't mess up down the road. (recommend tires: pirelli P7)
Anyways morale of the story, replace the tire just be wary if you have an AWD system and go to replace tires that are over 5k miles on them. (just google, there are plenty of articles on this topic)
Also if you got the tires after you purchased your car from lexus, you have the Road Hazard warranty which bascially is the 1st year they will replace your tire for free and the 2nd year its a 50/50.
(I know this was posted a couple of weeks ago, I just wanted to point that out since I just did that this weekend)
Best of luck.
02-25-14, 09:47 AM
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Well, sounds like I have made a lot of tire bubble friends with this thread. lol. I am glad I do not have an AWD. That is pretty messed up about having to replace all 4 tires if something happens on the AWD.
Tire was covered by Good Year, so didn't have to pay a dime. I did spend the money for an alignment, just to be safe though.
Moral of my story... Don't drive down roads with no street lights, after heavy snow melts. POT HOLE CENTRAL. Not worth it.
Tire was covered by Good Year, so didn't have to pay a dime. I did spend the money for an alignment, just to be safe though.
Moral of my story... Don't drive down roads with no street lights, after heavy snow melts. POT HOLE CENTRAL. Not worth it.
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