You wrote:

"After doing all the work,
the van handled beautifully and the steering wheel was straight.  Now,
about a thousand miles later, the van rocks lightly, but regularly, at
slow speeds, almost as if there were a bump on one of the tires.  At
higher speeds the van seems to vibrate, with a fair amount of road
noise.  I checked out the tires, which were uniformly low at 37 psi, and
pumped them up to the max rating listed on 3 of them, 44 psi.  I haven't
yet fully tested the effects of this.  "

I just went through the same thing.  They took the tire of my left front and
put it on the balancing machine and called me over to look at it. While it
was turning you could see a definate hump and hollow in it.  He said this
was actually the steel cord on the inside of the tire and it was separating,
getting ready to blow apart, very dangerous.  He took it off and put my
spare on.  I'm taking it back to Sears and argue with them, they don't want
to stand behind it but I don't even have 30k miles on it and it was a $100
tire to begin with.  By the way, we just ordered a new set of Michlen's so
I'm taking off all the Yokos I have on there now.  My $0.02 worth is check
out the bad tire very carefully before you drive on it any more.

John & Wendy
Cape Cod, MA

'85 Westfalia "S-Cape"
'98 Passat "The Doo Dah Machine"

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