I ended up locking up my brakes last night while avoiding an old lady that was pulling out in front of me; and now I have some serious handling/shaking problems. The tires smoked like crazy, and there are lumps of the rubber in a portion of the tires, where you can see it slid and got hot. My question is this:

Can I drive the with those tires, while under the assumption that the lumps of rubber will wear away and I will have a semi-normal tire again.

Or should I just chalk it up as a loss and get new tires... (Which would stink, because I just put new ones on my car... :( )

Thanks everyone.

You've flat-spotted your tires. They're worthless. You can *try* to get them rebalanced but it probably won't work very well.

Best bet is to buy new tires. Try not to lock up your brakes!

Thank you very much! I just ordered a new set of Kumho's from tirerack.

I learned a very important lesson; too bad it came so expensively...:rolleyes: