Tire Shop Employee Shares Pics Of The Things He Has Seen On The Job, And Here Are 28 Of The Craziest Ones

Looks like he painted a bald tire trying to fool someone, possibly a potential buyer.

Patent leather tires for driving to formal occasions.

And bald. Kinda like some men's heads.

It's so ... a death trap.

It's illegal !

and you failed...... miserably

I doubt it's a Ford. They don't live that long. Maybe a Mercedes

...what?

"The only stupid question is the one that is not asked."

"Camber angle is the measure in degrees of the difference between the wheels vertical alignment perpendicular to the surface. If a wheel is perfectly perpendicular to the surface, its camber would be 0 degrees. Camber is described as negative when the top of the tires begin to tilt inward towards the fender wells. Consequently, when the top of the tires begin to tilt away from the vehicle it is considered positive."

This is why you rotate your tires. If it's wearing bad in one spot, rotating them will help keep them even until you fix what is causing this problem. Don't fix just the tire, fix the cause of the issue.

@Grim Reaper Kudos to you for trusting folks enough to ask. It has restored a lot of my faith in humanity!

It's a bad alignment so the tires don't wear evenly

There is no such thing as a stupid question, just stupid answers. (Yes, there will exceptions lol)

Looks to me like the tire scrubbed on something; perhaps a bent bumper. Out-of-camber should have made a generally even slope side-to-side. This has a clear cliff between the halves.

The rubber has worn off. That’s how the shiny and slick tyre above, would have ended up if they’d let it keep going. That white looking steel stuff is the ‘steel belt’ it’s a part of the tyre you shouldn’t be able to see normally. Remember to check your tyres occasionally dear learner driver.

This happened to me because of worn out struts/shock absorbers.

You are the Grim Reaper and are still learning to drive? (pretty funny)

The tire has worn completely through the tread rubber down to the steel belts which reinforce that are contained within. Not a good situation, as the tires are very close to failing catestrophically

Perhaps the car needed a front end alignment and the owner kept putting it off.

Rotate tires, you must

Your also supposed to rotate your tires when you get an oil change (or every other? I’m not sure) so that the tires wear evenly.

No tread. Very unsafe, could slip or not be able to brake.

Over inflation causes this wear pattern, that's what this person meant. It seems obvious to me that the comment was deeper than just "no tread" reply.

No tread left so very little traction

Bald. Very, VERY bald.

no, it got worn down too much

Yes, also just way past replacement time.

Quite possibly yes but also overused id quess

Definitely.

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Yes.