sshanky
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- 2000 Mountaineer
Hey guys,
today we had the car in the shop and the mechanic noticed that the rear left tire is 225/75, the others are all 235. We never bothered to check that, as we bought new tires all around 3 years ago and obviously trusted the seller.
We noticed that the car has been leaning slightly to the left for a long time and assumed it was the spring or something else. Now we know why.
A couple years ago, the front differential exploded on the highway. We bypassed it, rather than spend a thousand on a new one, and it's worked well over the past two years.
Today, the mechanic thought the small tire might have had something to do with the blowing up of the front differential (since the wheel rotated faster than the rest). He also thinks it might have something to do with why the ABS makes noise on braking sometimes (infrequently, but sort of scary when it does, since the car doesn't want to stop)...
today we had the car in the shop and the mechanic noticed that the rear left tire is 225/75, the others are all 235. We never bothered to check that, as we bought new tires all around 3 years ago and obviously trusted the seller.
We noticed that the car has been leaning slightly to the left for a long time and assumed it was the spring or something else. Now we know why.
A couple years ago, the front differential exploded on the highway. We bypassed it, rather than spend a thousand on a new one, and it's worked well over the past two years.
Today, the mechanic thought the small tire might have had something to do with the blowing up of the front differential (since the wheel rotated faster than the rest). He also thinks it might have something to do with why the ABS makes noise on braking sometimes (infrequently, but sort of scary when it does, since the car doesn't want to stop)...
