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Fred G

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Well some of you know I had to have my hydraulic fan pump (HFP as I call it) replaced awhile ago. Alot of you flamed me because I didn't know who MAX was and five star ford. Well anyway this is what my pump looked like.
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Well anyway moving on to now. I had a blowout about week ago (back right tire), so I decided maybe all the suspension problems caused it. Well I had everything on the front end replaced, coil over springs, upper and lower control arms, inner and outer tie rod ends, I mean just about everything that has to do with the suspension I had replaced (on the front). Anyway, last night I had another blowout (right front tire). So since it was 1 in the morning and I was at my exit I slowly drove the mile to my apartment's garage. This morning my dad came out and we took the car outside to put the spare on and try to see what's going on, only thing is, we can't seem to figure out why this keeps happening. My dad is almost 60 and he and his friends think that it's because of the type of rims I have. Now personally I think it's not but could someone please take a look at my pictures and tell me what's going on, or at least through some ideas at as.

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Front Right Wheel Well
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Front Right Tire
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Front Left Tire
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Front Left Wheel Well (Clearance between tire and bolt)
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Well your camber is definitely off on your alignment (or was assuming when they replaced everything they gave it an alignment). I'm shocked they didn't tell you that your tires were ready to explode...How old are those tires and how many miles are on them? They don't have any tread left on them at all -- very dangerous looking
 
18's shouldn't do that. That looks pretty bad and uneven tire wear. Are you sure they aren't blowing cause they have zero thread in them and reached their limit? If you were running 20 you would run into more problem but the closer you get to stock size the more it goes down.
 
Yeah I know, I'm going tomorrow to get the alignment, I just needed to make it through the weekend, I bought the car with the rims and tires on them from a used car lot. Bought it back in February so almost 10 months + however long before then.
 
Wow... did you not look at the tires before you bought that?

That looks like years of messed up camber-wear.

That has to ride like pure sh!t lol
 
honestly, I think the tires are just old. You're running them down to the belts. Tires do that when you start running them down to the belts. Buy yourself some new tires (not to be cheap I imagine with low profiles on 18s -- I'm guessing a 40 sidewall...), and get an alignment on it. I'm sure the tires are just ancient and they've reached the end of their lives.

I'll bet you new tires fix your woes -- make sure you get a good balancing job done on them too
 
it actually didn't ride bad until last month and I just saved up the money to replace just about everything, so would everyone say it just needs an alignment? and a set of tires. Like I stated before I've had the car for 10 months.
 
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Fred G said:
it actually did ride bad until last month and I just saved up the money to replace just about everything, so would everyone say it just needs an alignment? and a set of tires. Like I stated before I've had the car for 10 months.
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you got it! that'll cure your woes
 
Fred G said:
it actually did ride bad until last month and I just saved up the money to replace just about everything, so would everyone say it just needs an alignment? and a set of tires. Like I stated before I've had the car for 10 months.
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I'd say so
 
I scare you why? Because no one taught me about every aspect of a car? If you have nothing helpful to say, then don't reply.
 
Fred G said:
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That does not tell me anything.

At some point, an 18" tire is too much tire. Say 235/56/18 would be too big. Use some common sense, the tire was shi@ before you punctured it with the ball joint stud
 
I mean d@mn I don't live, breath and sleep cars yet so that's not the first thing that comes to my mind, the tires are 245/40zr/18
 
Fred G said:
I scare you why? Because no one taught me about every aspect of a car? If you have nothing helpful to say, then don't reply.
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Because after both your front tires explode and you lose control of your car and crash into and potentialy injure or kill me...
 
you know what, I'll just ignore you, since you had nothing to give but negative feedback. Thanks anyway for your Intelligence.
 
Okay, here's some positive feedback. If you don't know much about cars, then you need to take your car to a Ford/Lincoln/Mercury dealer for an oil change each time the oil change message comes up. They will check all of the things that you don't know about (like that tires need to have at least some thread on them), and warn you about anything dangerous on the car that needs attention.
 
There is no way for the upper cntrol arm bolt to hit your tire. I know thats probably what your thinking.
 
Looks like the camber is waaaay off. As the tire wears into the belts you will get tons of vibration. I'm running 245/45/18 on one of our LSes and there are no rubbing issues at all.
 
So that's where the vibration is coming from? I know my control arms were really bad but when I changed them it cut down on the vibrations dramatically but there was still some, especially in the front, also when I hit a bump of say I hit a small bump with one tire it pulls to that side. Also when I go over a bump the pedal feels like its bouncing up and down with the bump (doesn't fell solid).
 
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