Originally Posted by
Mark
If you tried to destroy a rim on purpose with a hydraulic press, a steel rim will bend. An alloy rim will shatter. It's like comparing aluminum arrows to carbon arrows. Aluminum arrows can be bent. Some say an aluminum arrow is never truly straight after the first shot. A carbon arrow is either straight or broken. A bent carbon arrow doesn't exist. I doubt your alloy wheels are bent.
It sounds like you replaced one tire instead of a pair of tires. If so, the newer tire may not match well with the older tire. When I lost a factory Dunlop tire (sidewall blow out) @ 15,000 miles, I replaced it with two new tires. I still have an original factory Dunlop with 15,000 miles on it in my garage because of that incident.
I alluded to this in an earlier post, but I would question a single tire being added to the mix of the other three tires.