Tires trashed after 3900 miles

I took the Prius by the Goodyear retail store two days ago. The man said that the entire alignment of the car had to be off for this kind of damage to the tires to have occured. He stated that the car carrier that ferries the cars from Japan lets the air out of the tires and chains them down so tight that the alignment is screwed up and that part of dealer prep for delivery should be a full alignment.

I called the dealer, they do not align the cars as part of prep. The car was aligned under warranty though, by the local dealer(I got the car out of state).

The tires can be trued, but the remaining life has been greatly shortened.

I intend to order some new Goodyear Comfortreds to put onto the car.

What should or can I do about this lost tire life?

Anyone have any advice?

 

35 front, 33 rear PSI.

That wasn't the problem, the gosh awful alignment was. The feedback from the local dealer doing the warranty work was that the car was badly out of alignment on the entire right side, just as the guy at the Goodyear retail shop has said. He said he had been with them since 1970, and the man did know what he was talking about in hindsight.

 

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Trashed?

The Goodyear guy used the word ruined. The inside cupping I just did not notice, he saw it on three of the four tires, had me run my hand across them to feel it since I really couldn't see it until I felt it. I have barely functional eyesight, its corrected to about 20/35 or so with Toric contacts. I have extreme myopia, enherited. Its always been poor, I went through several grades of school not knowing that I could not see the blackboard. So much of the fine detail you take for granted I just cannot percieve.

There is a brand new FDA approved procedure to implant a corrective lense, I might qualify, I am checking into it.

They were not low, and have not been. Low pressures destroy tires and high pressures round off the inside tread. I have never gotten a new car out of alignment before, usually I do not knock a vehicle out of alignment even though I get them checked at the proper interval.

 

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Tire Rack is cheaper per tire for them than the Goodyear store by 27 dollars each! I will likely order them tomorrow.

I might ship the others to my brother, he might can use the remaining life on them after trueing. Maybe 5, 7 thousand miles of life will be left in them after getting them smoothed out again.

 

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Walmart and Sams Club cannot order them yet. Sears I have not checked with yet.

NTB has them for 86 apiece.