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Laramie1997

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After price shopping for the last month, I finally found a shop that had a decent price on a set of Hankook RF10 DynaPro ATM tires...

Called them last Wednesday and asked if they had that tire in a 275/60 R20 in stock. They checked and YEP! they did. Great, said hold four and I'll be down Saturday to pick them up. No worries, right? The shop in question is a two hour drive from me. Damn near in AR, but I was saving $400 by making the drive so it was worth it to me.

So yesterday.. I drive down (After a 30 minute detour. Thanks GOOGLE). When I got there, they said it would be a few minutes and that they were going to grab the tires out of inventory. Great! The shop manager comes back a few minutes later and tells me he has bad news for me... Uh oh. Said that some how their inventory was off and they only had two of those tires in my size at their location. Fark. He then went on to say that he had the same tire in a 305/50 R20 that usually lists at $265, but considering the muck up that he'd sell them to me at what he quoted me on the phone. ($219) SOLD.

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Now, I've always been told there is a bolt of lightening behind every cloud, and yesterday I found this to be true. When I left the shop, I noticed a slight vibration or shudder coming from the truck. Honestly, I thought nothing of it because of where this shop was located, the roads were horrible state highway that's really bumpy and curvy. Add in the fact that I've never had tires this wide or that short on the side wall and you have what I'm thinking to be some what normal. It wasn't until I got out on good highway before I started to freak out. Got it up to 60 and the shake was so bad that I thought I was going to lose a filling. Grr. By this time, I'm an hour from the shop and they are closed so I decide that considering their equipment and tech that they simply didn't get the wheels balanced out correctly. I get home and called my normal tire shop and made an appointment for this morning. When they threw the tires on the balancer they started laughing. Not a single wheel was balanced out and they were all over 2oz off. GREAT. Balance them and my problems go away, right? Heh. They feel great about 30mph to 50mph, but anything over that and they start shaking again. So, I'm taking them back to Firestone in the morning and having them run it for runout and see if one of them has a highspot which will mean I'll have to go BACK to BFE and have it swapped AND rebalanced in Springfield.

Other than that, I love these damn things! lol. They make the truck look different to me.
 

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what a *********** dude!
 
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Laramie1997

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I know it man. At least I'll have a tuner to play with tomorrow. :)
 

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You got a diablo and didnt go threw me to get it ... i could have saved you $$$

I am done here !


Truck looks good tho bud
 

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that sucks. Sounds like the tires are crappy
 

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Tires look good. Sounds like a headache though.
 

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sucks, but those do look good on there
 

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ATM... Ha!

They do look good. All of these issues will get worked out, and you won't even remember it. Until you need tires again, and just go locally, for this exact reason.
 
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Laramie1997

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LMAO I hadn't even put that together on the ATM part. :/ Not giving money right now though. Meh. I'll get it fixed, but still annoying to drop a grand on a product that's fuggered.

And ya know, I TRIED to buy locally too! My problem was two things. 1. I settled on the RF10 and only the RF10, and 2. No one in my area could quote a decent price because they don't deal in that brand. Now, I love to support my local businesses and do so all the time, and even though I make damn good money for a 23 year old, I cannot spend an extra $400 on something when I can avoid it in the first place. If I did that, I'd be in debt to my eyeballs. That's right. That same tire in a 275/60 R20 was quoted to me for $330 a tire all over the place up here simply because they had to pass through three different shops before I got to them.
 

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Bummmer, but the tires look good almost look like cooper zeon.
 

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looks good, and you can't complain getting the wider tire at the cheaper price
 

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the state highways in missouri (especially lettered highways) are terrible!
 

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the state highways in missouri (especially lettered highways) are terrible!

right!

I think the worst are F and A (get it?)
 
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Took the truck back to my tire shop in Springfield this evening and got everything lined out perfectly. Turns out that yesterday when I went in and had them balance the tires, they used the WRONG machine for my wheels. Anyways, had them road force test the tires (free so why not?) and the one that was the highest was 10# off which is super minimal for any tire.

All good in the hood. Now I'm playing with the Diablo tuner running a modified 93 octane tune that RDP is messing with. :)
 

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I always Road Force now because I have had similar issues as you did.


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