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PT Cruiser Tires and Wheels
Have a problem or question about tires or wheels on your Cruiser? This is the place to talk about it!
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Thats a good offer, but i'm a little annoyed with Goodyear, i was expecting them to maybe give me the forth tire for free considering the problems i have encountered.
For the record all 4 tires had the same DOT number, so i assume they are from the same batch.
Has anyone else suffered this problem???
http://www.1010tires.com/TireReviews/Goodyear_Eagle_LS_tire_reviews14.html
Based on so many positive reviews for them, I will probably buy Goodyear Assurance TripleTreds in the near future. A second choice might be theYokohama Avid TRZ.
Chrysler/goodyear need to recall the tires and wheels. I suppose they are just waiting for someone to be ..well..in all essence murdered by the people at goodyear.
Jesse
I HAVE HAD[3]CRUSIERS AND I AM SUPRISED,THAT IT HAS NOT COME TO ANYONE'S ATTENTION THAT OUR CRUSIERS,HAVE A VERY UNUSALL,FRONT END..TO CORRECT ANY FRONT END PROBLEM...
YOU MUST CHANGE BOTH TIRES.ON THE FRONT....[MY INSURANCE CANCLED MY POLICY,DUE TO ME RASING HELL ABOUT THE SAME
EXCACT PROBLEM....
GOODYEAR ARE THE ONLY TIRES ON ALL[3] OF MY CRUSIERS.
YOUR WHEELS ARE CAUSING THIS [LEAKING PROBLEM]...OURS
DO THE SAME THING.DISCOUNT TIRES SAND THEM AND SPRAY
CLEAR EPOXY ON THE EDGES..IT WILL FIX THEM FOREVER.
PS: I was told, last night, that I might try to fill the tires with "Nitrous" that a couple of our tire dealers sell! Is this something that might help?
Jesse
The other one was so bad from the chrome flaking off the wheel had to be replaced. Fortunately, I had a spare chrome wheel I purchased on eBay several years ago and they swapped it out. No more leaks for now.
You have the pothole blues...
It seems as tho Our friends at Goodyear,have made these low profile,tires
today with[soft sidewalls]so we can get what the folks at Chrysler.
Make us think we have a very good handling car.
The 2001/02 cruisers,had a sway bar for this,in the cost cutting.
It was left off the rest of the fleet-03-and up.
If all you want to fix the problem[after buying a new pair of tires]
go to any junk yard and ask to look over any smashed ones.
Find a 01 - or -02 get the swaybar for less than a new pair of shoes.
And the tire problem,Goodyear came out with a new tire with kevlar,on
the sidewalls[for as my wife puts it ";she can rub the curb now.' oh boy.
So i got me a Dream series2 with all the factory toys....
hope this helps your problem..
DREAM2ME
My CRUSIER,is not cheap or the tires or rims.The leaking is due to the flacking off of chrome on the wheels,get a tire company[Discount] and they can help you fix your problem for nothing,by wirebrushing your rims before putting on your
tires.DREAM2ME
If I felt like spending the money I'd go to 15s on my wife's car. 195.65.15 is the correct 15" size, they have a taller sidewall than the 205.55.16 that are on there now. I'd get replacement wheels at Tire Rack or similar.
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I got my PT detailed in preparation to sell it. After returning from a 2 week vacation, 3 of the tires were flat. I called a new (to me) mechanic and had the car towed there. They are grinding and sealing the rims. They told me my tires have dry rot, which I had never heard of. They are all less than a year old, but I learned that maybe the dressing that the detailer put on them caused that.
Assuming that I will have to replace many of these tires, if I just give up on the chrome wheels and go with a smaller, pothole friendly, normal tire and wheel, what size do I choose? How much do they cost?
I want to sell this car. It is too bad. I love the look, the performance and the handling.
No matter, really. Goodyear is about the last place I'd go for anything other than their gumball machine in the lobby.
"Dry rot" at one year old is almost surely a lie designed to take advantage of you and sell you a complete set of new wheels and tires. Putting tire shine on new tires will not dry rot them.
As for "grinding and sealing" the rims, I've never heard of that in my many years in automotivedom. If they've done it more than once, I'd say it's another con job that extracts $$ rather than solves the problem, since GY's solution seems to be to do the same thing again.
Everyone, including you, should keep a couple of tire pumps around. You can get a plug-in for 10 or 15 bucks. I personally use a high volume bicycle pump, it's good exercise and it motivates me to check tires occasionally.
Time for a new tire shop, and frankly that's a crapshoot since many of them know little about anything, other than selling expensive wheels and tires and keeping their parole officers off their backs. They definitely don't know much about tires.
Don't be surprised, most car salesmen know almost nothing about cars, either. They know about financing and how to attempt to lead you down the road to a sale...what do I need to do to get you in this car today?
We have a 2001 PT that has given great service for 60,000 miles and has spent many a-winter in a salty environment. We've had to replace one 16" chrome rim because of pothole damage. We've never had to "grind and seal" anything and again, IMO that sounds like Grade A baloney.
1.) First I'd check with two or three Chrysler or Dodge dealers regarding wheel problems. DO NOT let them sell you wheels, tires, or a grind job. It is remotely possible the factory will give you some help with chronic air-loss problems. Remotely.
2.) Then I'd ask around for a reputable tire store. Good luck. I went to one specialty store for new tire mounting and balancing and they couldn't even get the pressure right, all four were well above 32 and there was no consistency to boot.
I've finally settled on the local Wal Mart for my mount and balance. They have a lifetime balance deal which I've used because occasionally tires will come off balance and it's hard to tell which one it is. They hand torque the wheels, they actually check and adjust the air pressure, and they give an 8 x 11" page readout of what they did including lug nut torque and tire pressure. More than can be said for many tire shops.
If for some reason you have to replace a wheel or four, I'd check ebay and other sources. If you have 17" wheels, you can likely step down to 16" jobs which are less expensive and so are the tires.
3.) Finally, check Tire Rack, Treadepot, Discount Tire Direct, etc. if you're OK with mail order tires. TiRak is a good site to do extensive research, they have a lot of customer feedback if you look around. They can sell you a quality wheel-tire combo, but do not let them talk you into huge costs.
Most of the TiRak folks I've spoken with or emailed have a script they go by and they don't go off script often. However, you can do far better there than at Goodyear, I'd bet 100 bucks on that and I'm not a gambler.
We love our PT and have had only routine maintenance issues so far. At this point we're probably looking at a new timing belt, but that's SOP for overhead cam engines. Otherwise, PT will probably go to one of the heirs.
Good luck, sorry you've had such a runaround but IMO a large part of that is returning to the same GY store which can never solve the problem but continues to charge you for something that apparently doesn't do much but cost money. Good deal for them.
WE HAVE 2 CRUISER'S[05 REDWAGON]AND[03 GT DREAMCRUISER]
BOTH HAVE FACTORY WHEELS....WE HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM,BUT
THE PROBLEM WITH PT'S IS 2900 LBS IS ON THE FRONTEND...
I ROTATE MY WHEELS EVERY 3000 MILES AND HAVE THE TIRES CHECKED
OFTEN...DON'T SELL THE BEST CAR CHRYSLER MADE SINCE THE DAYS OF MUSCLE.THEY BOTH GET 25 TO 30 MPG.NOT MANY NEW CARS EVEN COME CLOSE..JUST GIVE THEM A LITTLE LOVIN'AND YOU WILL NEVER HAVE THE PROBLEMS.THATS APROMISE..DREAMCRUISER#2311 KEEP THEM FACTORY AND YOU WILL HAVE THEM FOREVER...
Are you sure about the year? I don't think the GT was introduced until the 2003 MY.
Anyway, we have a 2003 GT with the low profile chrome wheels. We've had all 4 wheels sanded down and sealer put around them by Midas. That has helped a bit but they say one wheel is too far deteriorated and it keeps leaking air. It hasn't bugged my wife enough to sell the car but she's looking at some aftermarket polished aluminum wheels at around $110/ea from Discount Tire Direct to permanently fix the problem.
1 of my 4 wheels is good because I got a new factory wheel and tire about a year ago. That is the only one that didn't leak lol.
So far, so good. 4 days. I am still skeptical of the whole tire rot thing. I didin't see any disintegration of the rubber. And they told me I needed new brakes front and rear, which I also declined. There isn't any noise or anything.
New mechanic said the same thing as the old mechanic - that those chrome wheels can really pit around the tire seal and leak air. That sounded legit to me.
Anyway.. thank you ALL! What a nice helpful bunch of people.