Brand new grp on road tires there's a belt sticking out of the side of it is this normal wear or should I be concerned

[R/C Guy 386]

I just purchased these grp wheels and tires about a month ago and I haven't even had them on long enough to run a full pack through and I noticed this cord sticking out of the side of the tire is this normal wear for grp because I am new to owning them and was just curious or is this may be a possible defect and it could potentially blowout and have catastrophic damage to my RC?

 

[GMballistic]

Not normal as far as I'm concerned, ..at least I've not seen that on my GRP's before, new or used ones.

Edit: Just to add I've no idea whether it would cause you any problems. Personally if you can get it/them replaced then I would just to be safe.

 

[suchtragedy]

It looks like you lost a chunk or maybe you got some camber issues because the wear is on the very outside corner of the side wall. GRP has like 6 different hardness levels of tires so if you run too soft of a tire in warmer kind of climates they are going to wear pretty fast. If after a couple runs and you see more wear on the outer wall like that vs. the inner wall you could try adding some negative camber.

 

[jondilly1974]

Not normal and I wouldn’t push that past 80mph.