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It can be risky to over inflate too much. My guess is that there wasn't enough tire lube, or the wrong kind was used.

Let's hope it has the 3.09s.

Why would I have waited until having a car?!? Any kind of car? But when I did reach drivers licence age, I had a small 2-door convertible. Just had to stack them like cord wood, that's all.

Hellcatcfp, you do know that the plans for an electric Challenger have been shelved, right? Turns out that the Battery Charger had more appeal. Much more.

Ironically, the two tires that stand out in my mind was a set of steer tires on my Pete. Not an ounce of weight needed. Now those were very carefully (correctly) mounted on the wheels, obviously including very good cleaning of the rim's bead areas. And they were quality tires. But you can...

I would never assume that a tire is round. That really doesn't happen i real life. Close, yes, but not round. On the contrary. I tried to explain that the tire's physical shape and its internals are two separate things. In theory you can have a perfectly round (visually) tire that doesn't...

It has nothing to do with what vehicle a tire and wheel combo ends up installed on. Yes, there are separate settings for P and LT tires, but that shouldn't factor in here. The balancer can figure all this out...given the opportunity. But it takes a coherent operator to take advantage of the...

I may have answered this already (losing track here) but it's sidewall related.

I wish you could bring your dang tires and wheels over here, and I could try fixing them for you.

To simplify this, there are two ways you get imbalance from a tire. The uniformity of its physical shape (the visible part) and what's inside the sidewalls. You can't dismiss how the internals of the carcass react to the weight they're subjected to. If that was the case, there would be no...

Okay, here I would like to add that a perfect wheel can be a hindrance. It offers no help whatsoever for using match balancing. As far as the amount of wheel weights used, I'm still surprised after all these years how often the wheel/tire combo that has the most weights has the lowest Road...

Look at a load chart and you'll see why it's not max psi, but one that's appropriate for the load on the tire. After all, the tire is merely a container for the air that supports the vehicle weight. In your case, I wouldn't say that it's not a car problem. And you know why. Anyway, I'll have...

My guess is that they couldn't get a decent balance on a lesser machine, so those tires got done (more) correctly. Unfortunately, it seems to be common practice to throw the tire on the balancer with whatever pressure it took to seat the beads, then worry about lowering it later. They could...

Why? The sidewalls are essentially a series of springs, some a bit stronger others a bit weaker. With a higher inflation pressure those differences are minimized. That's one reason a tire should be Road Force balanced with the pressure it'll be run at. Otherwise the machine won't know what it's...

Start with installing Lambo doors, upside down. That way you have four built-in jack stands. Then take all four tires to get Road Force balanced.

Sounds like you got two correctly balanced tires, or close to it, which were put up front. Then when you rotated the tires the two okay ones from the rear didn't feel so good anymore. Why wouldn't they balance all four correctly in the first place?

Alright, so you're still buying a new car, just a newer one. Good!

You mentioned those tires coming from some other source, and refer to them as three months old. That makes me wonder if that's the age of the tires, according to the DOT code, of how long you have owned them. You also say that they feel different, which could indicate that they are many years...

Shhhh!