So far, the main purpose of the stickies is to make it easier where to tell the newbies to look for the answer to their post....rather than answering their post.



The differing tensions I described, and that TireRack described are the same I think...the difference is they sell tires, and they don't want too many returns for flaws...and I've seen the one's with this issue get worse with time and fail eventually...sometimes.

So people who SELL tires will call it "normal", and people who DRIVE on the tires can consider it a defect.

(A defect doesn't mean the tire won't work, just that its made with uneven tensions, which over time, get worse...if you wear out the tread/replace the tire under normal wear and tear first, you win...if not, you lose/get a PRO-Rated compensation of a few bucks to represent the loss in use, etc.)

I worked with people who MAKE the tires for example, and the difference in emphasis between those who SELL the tires, and those who MAKE the tires, is my perspective.

The MAKERS TELL the Sellers the TireRack type blurb, the seller's believe it, and tell the customers...who therefore accept the tires in good faith, and, often, w/o any problem what so ever....making the system work.

We have a post above from one customer who noticed the deterioration over time though as an example of what I'm talking about....soup to nuts.

Its a Fox and Hen House question.