<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br>Hendrix wire wheel will stripe a more modern tire, true it, etc. one stop shop.<div><br></div><div>Michael</div><div><br></div><div><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Oct 13, 2020, at 7:17 PM, DAVE HOGYE <dlhogye@comcast.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">I guess these are bias-ply tires. Bias-ply tires are difficult to deal with. Some say, don't even bother with balancing until they are broken in with say, a few hundred miles on them. They tend to be out-of-round when new. I had huge problems with two new sets of Hoosier Vintage TD race tires for my TR3. Around $1200 a set, mounted and balanced. I drive my car on the street too, so I was able to discover this before getting to the track. Repeated tries at balancing went nowhere. I had them "road force balanced" multiple times in attempt to improve the matter. This machine reads the run-out. I think 20 was about the number that you would not feel while driving. None of the tires were under 30 and some were 80. You didn't need a machine to see how out-of round they were, even at 30. Terrible. They really upset a weekend of racing at the Laguna Seca, Rolex Reunion. The car shook terribly between 60-90 mph. Above 90 was better. After the event I called Hoosier and they sent me another set, no charge. I had to eat the extra attempts at balancing. The second set was also very bad and a year later, my second Rolex race weekend was equally disappointing. Hoosier sent a third set, no charge. This set was excellent. This event is the only one that I have to run bias-ply race tires. I've heard from other racers that the much more expensive Dunlops are even worst. Hoosier did not request the bad sets be sent back. I have since remounted a couple of lower "road force" numbered tires and they are good now. So with some wear, they did get better. </span>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">Roger Kraus Racing, tire company, recommended truing these tires by shaving the tread when newly mounted if they are noticeably out-of round and take a lot of weight to balance. </span>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">Happy motoring,</span>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">Dave H.</span>
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On 10/13/2020 3:05 PM auprichard@uprichard.net wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #1f497d;">Just for what it’s worth…..</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #1f497d;">When I bought my TR5 from Charles Runyan’s estate, it came with 15 year-old tires. They had little to no wear, and drove fine, but I decided I should do the right thing and replace them if I was to take loved ones out for a drive in the car.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #1f497d;">Since there was only one manufacturer to choose from for redline tires, I bought 4 tires from Coker, through Discount Tire. Not cheap!!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #1f497d;">I put them on the car and there was a terrible wobble around 50 mph. I took them back twice to Discount to get them balanced, but the wobble persisted. Finally, I took them to an old guy (well, older than me) in Detroit who boasted he had balanced wire wheels for 40 years. He told me the tires were so out of true they could not be balanced. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #1f497d;">I took them back to Discount Tire and they called Coker. Coker refused to take them back unless they fell outside certain specifications. The Discount Tire shop didn’t really know what Coker was talking about, but went through the process and sure enough, the tires all fell outside the specifications.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #1f497d;">So the good news is, Coker will take them back. The bad news is, Coker has no redline tires and doesn’t know when they will have more, if ever.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #1f497d;">So my plan is to put new tires, not redline, on the car and keep the redlines I have if ever a buyer wants originality or the car is shown.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: #1f497d;">Andrew Uprichard</span></p>
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