Tire Problems of Kia Motor RIO

The contact owns a 2010 kia Rio equipped with hancook optimos tires, size p185/65/r14/85h. The contact stated that while driving various speeds, she noticed that the vehicle was bouncing abnormally. The vehicle was taken to the dealer where they advised her that the rear driver side tire was out of round and was unable to be balanced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was contacted and they offered no assistance. The failure mileage was approximately 8,000.

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I purchased tires from manteca tires in may of 2010. The tires were yokohama prada tires for a total of 359. 80. I had the tires balanced, aligned and rotated at regular intervals. The tires from day one were making extreme noise and I had notified manteca tires that the tires were causing noise. They suggested to rotate them and use them for a while to see if the tires continued to make noise. I did so and then also took them in later to be rotated again and had them check the noise. They stated that I should let some more time go on them and continue to drive to see if again the noise would go away. It did not and the noise was getting worse. I did not feel that these were safe. They said I should contact yokohama, which I did. They told me to take it to a local tire company and get it checked out. Yokohama was claiming that the tires are not covered under warranty because they stated there was some cupping. I told them how can that be, when I never had this road noise with my last tires and I had these tires rotated, aligned and balanced. They said they would offer a 25 % discount on new tires. That is not honoring a warranty. A little over a year later, a person should not have to replace tires. Manteca tires then when on to fax them paperwork and talk to them, which it took yokohama three days to get back with them and then they only offered a 40% discount on new tires. If I have balanced my tires, rotated them and done everything I should as a car owner and those tires are still making noise, then it is clearly the fault of the tires. What would make me buy yokohama tires again, even at a discount, when they do not honor the warranty they offered in the first place. These are obviously faulty tires and I am not the first one to complain of the extreme road noise from these tires. If you research on the internet, there are several other consumers that have experienced the same with yokohama tires. They too, have complained of yokohama not honoring warranties.

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The consumer statesdthe tires were purchased on April 23, 2005. They split in half and chunks werecoming out of the tires. All four of the tires were having this problem. Wire was coming out of the tires. The air pressure iwas checked. The shocks and struts have been checked to make sure this was not the problem. These tires started falling apart at approximately 1,000 miles.

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Deficient wheel bearing on kia Rio. Recurring problems with the wheel bearings. The current wheel bearing problem was diagnosed as the tires. The noise still exists. The consumer requested reimbursement.

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I bought my new kia Rio in September of last year, its only 9 months old, and has 19,000 miles on it. The tires have worn to the steel on the inside edge only, no shimmy nor shake, that would make me think its an alignment problem. I called hankook the manufacturer of the tire, they told me to call kia but said no warranty, kia said the same, I am getting no where, the tires are supposed to be good until 36,000 miles. ? already I have to buy new tires and no percentage off from the manufacturer or dealer? seems like they put an anything tire on here that looks nice, but no quality, that could blow at anytime. I will have to purchase new tires, I can not drive on these. I feel they have made a defective problem and they hankook, nor kia the dealer I bought them from wants to help. The service manager, chip carr, has not returned my calls at kia. Thank you. (tiresize: 13)( dot number: tire size: 13 ).