would you run this tire

got a tire that is wearing pretty uneven on the edge but the rest of the tires are still decent. outside of the potential vibration issues would you feel safe running this tire? A tire guy told me once that when you see the light colored rubber the tire needs to be replace ASAP, but I know he is trying to sell tires and don't know if that's true or not.


I don't have another used tire that will match up tread depth wise and the tires still have a little life left in them but this tires bugs me.

Second question. on the Bridgestone 726ELs do you usually replace the tire when it is worn even with the two rows of "teeth"? I know that is more than the 2/32nd the DOT allows but when the tires gets to the teeth I think the usable life gone.

 

thanks guys. I'll call my tire guy tomorrow and see what he says. Normally I would just pull the tires off and get new at this stage but I'm trying to run my stuff a bit longer and get more miles out of them.

I did have an alignment done after these tires started showing uneven wear but I think the damage must have been done because this tire kept wearing uneven. I also used to only rotate front to back which didn't help things either, I've since changed to a front/back and side/side rotation.

 

I did just replace the shocks and they were bad. This is the second set of shocks that these tires have seen but I ran the tires with the shocks that were on the truck for awhile before replacing with new.

What do you mean by wheel end play, If the bearing allows the hub to move in/out?

 

I noticed that I have a couple more tires starting to wear funny on the edges. The inside tire on the front axle on the same side as the tire in the picture is starting to cup on the inside edge and the tire paired up with the one in the picture is wearing a little funny on the outside edge.

I wonder if lack of maintenance is partially to cause. I'll admit I'm really lax about checking air pressure and when I do it I've found from time to time that I have some tires that are 5-10lbs low. I need to get in the habit of checking them more often. I'm also usually loaded heavy and do a lot of turning and driving on less than stellar roads and yards if that makes a difference.

This is my third set of BS 726ELs between two different trucks and every set has wore funny like these. The old trucker that had been helping me out when I started said that's just how that tire wears and he quit using them so I never really checked into it any further. I don't think he knew everything I thought he knew.