Taking tires off of vehicles sometimes gives you the "pa-TING" breaking sound, and the durability of the tire goes down. This happened across multiple vehicle types - police cruiser (Chevalier Nyala), Fossoil truck (Chevalier D6), Chevalier Primani, Masterson Horizon.
I am at Mechanic skill 1 (half way to 2), and checking the tire info box before trying to remove it shows that there should be no chance of breakage. When a break does happen, a 1% durability loss to the tire occurs.
Battery, radio, and headlights (also reporting perfect chance) have no issues installing or uninstalling.
Update -
At mechanic skill 2+ seats were doing the same thing.
At mechanic skill 3+ windows were doing the same.
All previous breakages still occur even at higher levels. e.g. Tires are still randomly breaking at skill 3+.
The only installed mod is the position mod.
Shin