Serotta
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Got up Saturday morning to pack the Telly for our mountain trip. As usual, I check oil and tire pressure prior to a trip. I noticed a bulge in the front driver's side Conti TerrainContact A/T. About the size of my pinky running from rim to tread straight up the sidewall. It wasn't there three weeks ago when I last checked.
9500 miles on the tire. I drove it (slowly) up to Discount Tire, maybe 5 miles. They looked at it, decided what I'd already decided, it needed to be replaced. I was prepared to replace all 4, but the service tech suggested just replacing the one bad tire. Tire had just less than 10/32 tread left. New one was 12/32. He claimed it was well within Kia tolerance for AWD vehicles.
I bought a new tire and had it mounted in place of the damaged tire. Drove 200 miles on it and detected no ill-effects from the ride or handling.
As far as we can remember we've never hit anything that might cause the damage,
I was wondering if anyone else had a Conti A/T with this sort of cord damage without hitting anything.
9500 miles on the tire. I drove it (slowly) up to Discount Tire, maybe 5 miles. They looked at it, decided what I'd already decided, it needed to be replaced. I was prepared to replace all 4, but the service tech suggested just replacing the one bad tire. Tire had just less than 10/32 tread left. New one was 12/32. He claimed it was well within Kia tolerance for AWD vehicles.
I bought a new tire and had it mounted in place of the damaged tire. Drove 200 miles on it and detected no ill-effects from the ride or handling.
As far as we can remember we've never hit anything that might cause the damage,
I was wondering if anyone else had a Conti A/T with this sort of cord damage without hitting anything.
