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Put new tires and rear wheel bearings in the little guy and holy crap. I thought the road noise was merely the small tires but I was wrong and threw some new bearings in the rear... I can hear my thoughts again! 8k miles and a few months into having this car... I can say my jeep hasn't had 200 miles put on it since! I think I like it!
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i have crazy amounts of road noise maybe i need to check my wheel bearings88 L carb'ed (when up in flames of glory)(deceased) 4spd
89 L carb'ed (died on the operating table (rust))(deceased) 5spd
93 gl FI (sold) automagical
89 lx FI megasquirted "luna" b6D+t (186hp 209ftlbs)
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I just replaced (including balancing) the 2008- and 2009-manufactured front tires on one of my daily driver Festies. All of the 55mph-and-up shimmy problems instantly went away. I can now do 80mph with zero shimmy. I had been figuring I'd be replacing ball joints, tie rod ends, and who knows what else, when it turned out to be nothing but square tires.88L black, dailydriver
88LX silver a/c, dailydriver
4 88/89 disassembled
91L green
91GL aqua pwrsteer
92GL red a/c reardmg
3 93L blue, 2 dailydriver, 1 frontdmg
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The 12 inch Kelly/Douglas tires that were on mine when I bought it in 2012 were made in 2000 D: I can't believe I was driving on those, granted they had allot of tread left and no dry rot, hell one tire still had the little rubber hair things. Yet the Bridgestones on my Monte dry rotted to hell in less than 5 years.1991 Ford Festiva BP (Full Aspire/Rio Swap) (337k Miles) (Around 95k Engine)
2002 Chevy Cavalier LS Sport 2.2L DOHC Ecotec (Threw a Rod)
1998 Chevy Monte Carlo LS 3.1 V6 (225k miles) Best MPG = 28Comment
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^Seen some on a Neon the other day that had full circumferential splits in the tread just as they were pretty well worn out. Don't know how long they'd been like that, but they weren't even close to 5 years old.
Scary.Any difference that makes no difference is no difference.
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got my Festiva aligned long ago and now it's been driving straight ever since.... i don't feel like I will hit sombody head on 1/16 of a second after I let go of the wheelDoug's Daily Driver (Dad): '91 Ford Festiva L Manual "Old Yellow" got with 40,xxx mi... about 52,xxx mi. give or take now
Austin's Daily Driver (mine) : '91 Ford Festiva GL Automatic "Whitie III" W/ 0.40 over aspire engine from '94 Aspire "New Blue" rebuilt 92,xxx mi. then... about 96,xxx mi. or more now (on body)
Doug's work car: '95 Ford Aspire Manual "Whitie II" w/ swapped stock aspire engine from '95 Silver Aspire and has it's 5th transmission! 75,xxx mi... now with about 130,xxx mi.
Sold! '89 Ford Festiva Manual "Gaystiva" (sold to my Uncle) - got with 163,xxx..... now 163,xxx Sold!
TRANSFERRED! '89 Ford Festiva Automatic EFI "one hit wonder" Given to bolokid - got with 210,xxx ...... now with 210,xxx miles TRANSFERRED!
'94 Ford Aspire SE Manual "Assfire" - got with at least 350,000 mi
SOLD! '90 Ford Festiva L Manual look for Narion (or click the username) it's new owner on the forum! - got with 193,xxx miles... now has 193,xxx miles give or take SOLD!
R.I.P '91 Ford Escort GT w/ bad engine..... stripping for parts then off to the scrapper!
R.I.P '91 Ford Festiva Manual "Lil Red Rocket" bought brand new in 1991 with ~120 mi... ended with 227,xxx mi.
R.I.P '97 Ford Aspire 4 Door Automatic "Ford Metro" parts car - got with about 144,xxx mi.... ended with 144,xxx mi
R.I.P '95 Ford Aspire Manual Silver (one owner and one family car) got with about 50,000 miles ended with about 90,000 miles
R.I.P '94 Ford Aspire Manual "New Blue" got with 150,xxx.... ended with about 200,xxx (it's engine is the .40 engine in my GL)
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Mine has 175 70 13's on it. I had a mid range tire put on all four then went home and did the rear bearings. It went from driving me nearly insane, having the radio cranked up to 40 and screaming into the phone to pleasant. But on that note, brake line blew out 6 hours after doing this lol... Also had my best mileage yet to date with it since owning it. 47.3. I believe all notions of getting rid of it went out the door. 222,xxx miles and running like a sewing machine. I see why you guys love these little things so much... HahaComment
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mine was terrible too, but i changed it when i first purchased the car. it got noisy a year or so later. but i put new ones on last september. and its still good now. maybe i just bought a crap bearing.Comment
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