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Doohickie -> RE: Tire wear (7/1/2007 1:13:56 PM)
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If you've rotated your tires regularly (something like every 6,000 miles), check your owners manual for how to deal with the tires. The tires themselves are not covered under the Hyundai warranty, but are warranted by the tire company (I think). Either way, though, I think the dealer can replace them under warranty.
It sounds like your dealer is not cooperating though. Read the manual and make sure you did what you were supposed to do, but you may want to try a different dealer as well.
If you can get new tires out of them, great, but.... in my experience, the tires on new Hyundais are the weak link. Mine came with "Michelins" that, with a little investigation, I found were made by Hankook in Korea using Michelin molds but not Michelin construction or materials... nor did Hankook use their best stuff in them either (since they didn't carry their logo). For Elantra owners, I did pretty good; I got just over 30,000 miles on my OE tires. Most people have had enough of them long before that.
In your case, though, that is way too quick for a tire to wear out, even with a marginal alignment. It may be worth the money to get an alignment at an outside shop (I know my local Sears gives "before" and "after" readings when they do an alignment). If the outside shop says the alignment is good, the dealer should replace the tires. (Just make sure you get documentation.) If the alignment was way out, the dealer was right... even though you didn't realize it, the alignment was off. If you are sure you didn't hit anything, maybe it came that way, but that will be tough to prove. If you really think the car came that way, you may want to contact the Customer Relations people at Hyundai and see if they can help.
Good luck.
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