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1 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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This content was created by Mike Melton. This content was uploaded by Mike Melton. This is a YouTube video titled "Bad tire" (uploaded 2026-09-01) featuring Mike Melton performing a hands-on tire diagnosis. He inspects a Falken tire from the passenger rear, describes cupping and a pronounced hop, reports balance/force measurements (5.5 oz vs 8.5 oz and ~72 pounds of force), explains the tire is significantly out and recommends replacement, and comments that they avoid carrying Falken tires due to recurring issues.

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This guy came in with these Falkens having a bad vibration problem, so let's see what's going on. So this one came off the passenger rear. It's got slight cupping on there. Let's go ahead and figure it out. All right, for one, I don't know if you can see it, but it's got a pretty damn bad hop in there. So that's gonna tell me we're gonna be out around a pretty good bit on this Falken tire. Now we don't carry the Falken tires because they got a lot of issues, so we try to get people to steer away from them, but it's all up to the consumer. All right, roller's coming off. Of course, you ain't gonna fix nothing on this one. 5.5 ounces here, 8.5 ounces here. It's got 72 pounds of force. A lot of that's got to do with— some of that's got to do with the cupping, but the tire itself is out around pretty damn bad. So I would go ahead and replace this tire.