Thread: Flat spotting tyres - School me

As above I want to know about flat spotted tyres.

Is it a major problem? What does it feel like when driving on them? how does it effect the car?

How can you tell if a tyre is flat spotted (aside from canvas showing through).

Basically on the market for some new semi's, everything on trademe seems to be flat spotted just wondering if its worth the risk or I should bite the bullet and purchase new and then flat spot them myself

Please no "i read on the internet/my cousin is part of TZR and he told me this"

Thanks

/sidetrack comment

Semi's get harder when you heat cycle them and over time in my experience. So if you're ok with that, then go second hand, but if you're being quite serious about going faster, there's few things as nice as using nice new soft tyres :-). This applies more to sprints/hillclimbs, and less to doing many circuits of a racetrack (where you will want harder compound tyres anyway).

Originally Posted by Leon

This applies more to sprints/hillclimbs, and less to doing many circuits of a racetrack (where you will want harder compound tyres anyway).

have done neither sprints or hill climbs but a few trac days so this is where they will be used.

Thanks for your thoughts Paul & Leon

Any tips about spotting flat spots? or is it done by feel when driving?