[TR] tired of tire stores

[Joe Curry]

Most of those Dweebs have only worked on either solid axle rear drive cars
or front wheel drive cars and therefore haven't the foggiest idea about the
nature of independent rear suspension.

Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net
[mailto:triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Jim Muller
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 7:45 PM
To: Triumphs
Subject: Re: [TR] tired of tire stores

Thanks, Randall, for writing:

> Jim, not all tire stores are created equal.  If that one won't work
> with you, find another one.

That's exactly what I've concluded.

Of course, I was partly just ranting at the ignorance of the dweebs 
who work at some of these place.  Pro'bly never occurred to them that 
wheels don't have to be perzactly vertical.  Camber?  What's camber?  
You'll have to fix that, you know...

> Also ask them to check for runout at the surface of the tire.

This term stumps me however.  What do you mean by runout at the 
surface?  Visibly inconstant radius as the wheel spins?  Or perhaps 
taking it one dimension deeper, a radius which varies across the 
tread as the wheel spins?