And can you imagine the path is thru your wheel bearing? Can you believe it
will also ruin the bearings? It can! In the old days,a spring was inserted
under the dust cap to shunt the bearing but no such solution is possible
with modern front wheel drives! Makes one wonder if it could also harm ABS
sensors and other sensitive items...hmmm?! Same thing with drive belts and
their bearings although manufacturers have made them conductive which helps
some. Food for thought...
----- Original Message -----
From: John J. Riddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 11:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] radial tire static?
>
> Dave, Last year I bought a set of Toyo tires for my Chrysler Concorde and
> had very bad static
> on the low end of the AM dial. Toyo said they never heard of this before
> ...(Not surprising)....
>
> The static was similar to an old spark-gap transmitter running......there
is
> one of those
> in the Hammond Museum of radio here in Guelph Ont.
>
> After a week I went back to the dealer where I purchased them and we put
on
> a set of used Goodyear
> tires from another car that were exactly the same as I took off, for the
> replacement tires.
> NO STATIC !
> My brother who is the service manager thought I was "Nuts" so he went for
a
> ride with me (Before and after)
> the installation of the Goodyear tires to hear it for himself.
>
> The noise on the radio with Toyo tires varied from very bad to almost none
> at all depending
> on what type of pavement I was driving on.
>
> On gravel roads there was no noise at all with the Toyo tires.
>
> The dealer took back my Toyo tires and gave me a full refund. I installed
a
> new set of
> Goodyear Eagle GA's and there is no noise at all on the AM radio from
them.
> !!!!!
>
> 73 John VE3AMZ Waterloo, Ontario
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