tell your wife to take the parking brake off while driving ;-)
just kidding, hope your wife is not reading ;-)

on the other hand, these things (parking brakes) get stuck sometime but
mostly on older car, in that situation you would also have abnormal wear
on the parking brakes components. Only other thing I can see is allignment.

Odds of 2 defective tires put on the rear of your car is slim.

-john


KnockKnock wrote:
> Bought 2004 TL new March '04 as wife's car. At 8,700 miles (virtually all
> her driving) the rear tires and only the rear tires were treadless, front
> tires were ok. The tires had never been rotated. Dealer checked car and
> found nothing wrong. Bridgestone dealer would not adjust tires since he did
> not see car first. Dealer agreed to pay for replacement set of Bridgestones
> but I checked around and paid difference for a set of Yokohama's. Car now
> has about 11500 miles and all tires seem to wearing uniform across tread and
> the same for all tires (front and rear). BUT the projected tread life is
> only 20,000 to 22,000 miles. In other words I'll need another set of tires
> when the car reaches about 30,000 miles. This is not normal relative to my
> other vehicles but I am wondering about other TL owner tire wear experience.
> BTW, my wife's driving is about 75 miles per day (highway) 5 days a week.
> Little if any time is spent as in-town driving. Any comments would be
> appreciated. Thanks.
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