About two weeks ago, the front right tire of my Hyundai Getz started to squeak really loudly when I fetched my wife from work. We’re not talking the kind of bicycle-tire iki! iki! iki! sounds. We’re talking the kind of loud EEEEEEEEEEEEK! sound that attracts attention because it’s so darn loud and painful to the [...]

Today, after I fetched my wife from work along Taft Avenue, the front right tire of my Hyundai Getz started making noise. Not the kind of whoosh whoosh that one would expect from a flat tire, but a shrill, piercing noise that can only come from metal on metal. It was extremely painful to the [...]