Originally Posted By: Volvohead
Originally Posted By: SteveSRT8
Modern tires do not flat spot at all.
Yes they do. Both of ours that are stored do it after sitting a couple weeks. Both have modern, major brand tires.
It's temporary flat spotting, and the tires round back out once warmed up.
It's more prevalent with stiffer, higher performance tires.
temporary is not flat spotting.
The term comes from the old daze when bias belted tires would PERMANENTLY flatten if they were not driven once in a while.
My car has sat for 3 months while I was out of the country playing. Upon my return it did indeed "clomp" its way down the road for a mile or two, but everything quickly returned to normal...