Tyres

How hard can it be?Just make you can catch the rolling tyre.But watch out when a tyre whacks you where it really hurts.

When I drive my 1997 Toyota Camry on the freeway between 75 and 85 km/h the whole body shakes. What could it be?

We have had to put new tyres on our Ford Territory after four years. The tyres themselves show they should be inflated to 40 psi, but the car's manual says 32 psi for regular unloaded driving for a Territory. Should I follow the tyre or the car guide?

The rear passenger tyre on my 2008 Toyota Kluger 2WD is wearing much more rapidly compared to the other three tyres on the car. There's no noticeable vibration on the road. What should I do?

I have spent a great deal of money trying to fix a shake in the front-end of my 1997 2.8-litre GQ Nissan Patrol that comes in at around 80 km/h and is gone again at about 100 km/h. I have had countless wheel alignments, new tyres and just about every suspension component you could think of replaced. Nothing has worked. What else can I do?

Recently I noticed small golf ball-sized bubbles in the sidewall on one of the tyres on my 2011 Nissan Dualis+2 AWD TI. The car has only done 6,800 km, mostly on sealed roads and never off road. After inspecting the tyre my dealer told me he could not do anything and asked me to take it to a Continental tyre agent. I did but the agent wanted to charge me $400 to replace it, and believing the tyre to be faulty I refused. I also contacted Nissan customer service and they were not very helpful either. I then sought a second opinion, which was that the tyre was faulty. What other options do I have?

My 2001 Hyundai Elantra GLS has had 195/60 R15 tyres fitted from new, which are said to be optional. The standard tyres should be 185/65 R15. What do you suggest I fit now?

...in this latest instalment of Dumbest Stuff on Wheels. Can a man really jump a tyre to land safely on the hood of an oncoming car? Watch the video to find out and see people enact more silly ideas on wheels.

The original tyres on our 1999 Holden Barina were 165/70 R13 and pressures were 35 psi front and 32 psi rear. Our tyres are now 195/50 R15 and the tyre fitters recommend 36 psi all round. What should they be?

I have been reading with interest reports of tyres wearing out on FG falcons due to, in my case, "toe in" being out of alignment. While I accept that I believe such degradation in less than 40,000 km of normal driving is unacceptable. As you can see by the pictures supplied how bad my tyres were. I only found out when driving down to the coast on the Queens Birthday long weekend and I got the fright of my life when at 100 km/h I heard the knocking noise of the tyre hitting the fender inner panel. My service book tells me that at 30,000 km service the tyres are checked and rotated, but did they? I can't prove that they didn't, but that aside I want to know how my tyres went from being roadworthy at 30,000 km to being unsafe 10,000 km later?