Somehow I lost the pic, and I havent used Maya in a while to do another screen shot.
What I did was model the tire with a poly plane and duplicated it 360 degrees around the tire rim.
When I dupluicated, there were triangles around the side of the tire and I dont know how to fix it.
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
George Bernard Shaw - Man and Superman