DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
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Cornering takes its toll, too. Though technically that's just acceleration, if one wanted to be pedantic.
Car tyres, interesting article.
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Cornering takes its toll, too. Though technically that's just acceleration, if one wanted to be pedantic.
Lancsman
Veteran
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- Bognor Regis West Sussex
From my experience of 40 years in the motor trade town driving does kill tyres. We maintain lots of local private hire vehicles and they go through front tyres at a very high rate. It is the constant full lock turns they go through.Toe out on turns can cause massive slip angles on outer tyres. Yes they are high mileage vehicles but they go through more tyres than similar mileage vehicles used on motorways etc.
Also from my experience tracking doesn't go out. Suspension joints and bushes wear components get damaged, but tracking very rarely goes out there is usually an underlying reason .
Drago
Legendary Member
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- Suburban Poshshire
Yet they always seem to have cash to buy the car in the first place, or pay for fuel?
I'm very right-wing when it comes to safety - if it ain't safe, I don't care how skint you are - don't drive it.
Cubist
Still wavin'
- Location
- Ovver 'thill
Any offence which can be rectified by having a part replaced or repaired covers them in general terms, although they also cover some lighting offences.
Bonefish Blues
Banging donk
- Location
- 52 Festive Road
This happens often on current roads I find. If you find a Kwik Fit with a Hunter system (not all have them) then for £99 you can have your alignment checked & adjusted as many times as you like for 2 years.Just replaced front tyres on our motor. I noticed one had worn on the outside edge. Bloody tracking had gone out again
I know KF have a patchy reputation, but this system features a customer display and print out so you can be sure that your alignment is back to factory spec.
Just a thought, might be useful - it is to me.
Levo-Lon
Guru
[QUOTE 4676844, member: 9609"]with tyres; is it riskier to buy a casing from a scrapies or an ex demo 6 month old range rover ?
with the tyre from the scrapies you get to inspect the inside of the tyre, who knows if the RR has been stotted along a rough track and the otherwise new looking tyres are ready to go pop.
If you know what you are looking for second hand tyres can be superb value.[/QUOTE]
agree..as you can see the car there on..
The second hand tyre bay sellers are selling lots of tyres from Germany etc that require changing at mot time as their more strict ..so you have to take the gamble...I'm not against this but I'd be wary of fitting a 4mm tyre of unknown origin ,then using them loaded on a motorway..pot luck or pot hole luck maybe..
All tyres have a date on them..so you can at least avoid older rubber.
I never used road motorcycle tyres that were under 2mm or over 3 yr old.
heat cycles are even more critical once you start using more track specific tyres etc, they go off and then try to kill you..same applies with road rubber..eventually
I sold my 11 year old van in November with the original unused 2005 dated spare tyre ..It looked great but as to its safety? ?
with the tyre from the scrapies you get to inspect the inside of the tyre, who knows if the RR has been stotted along a rough track and the otherwise new looking tyres are ready to go pop.
If you know what you are looking for second hand tyres can be superb value.[/QUOTE]
agree..as you can see the car there on..
The second hand tyre bay sellers are selling lots of tyres from Germany etc that require changing at mot time as their more strict ..so you have to take the gamble...I'm not against this but I'd be wary of fitting a 4mm tyre of unknown origin ,then using them loaded on a motorway..pot luck or pot hole luck maybe..
All tyres have a date on them..so you can at least avoid older rubber.
I never used road motorcycle tyres that were under 2mm or over 3 yr old.
heat cycles are even more critical once you start using more track specific tyres etc, they go off and then try to kill you..same applies with road rubber..eventually
I sold my 11 year old van in November with the original unused 2005 dated spare tyre ..It looked great but as to its safety? ?
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Drago
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Hardly any point in fitting a tyre worn to 4mm. It's 1mm off being Donald anyway.
I'm afraid I, and even the best tyre monkeys, are not blessed with X-Ray vision, or prescient powers. If people can't afford to run a car properly and keep it safely maintained then it shouldn't be on the road. Fitting second hand safety equipment is a daft idea.
Far to many people buy cars that are beyond their means to maintain and run properly - the proverbial champagne car on a coca cola budget. If less people worried about their egos and public displays of brand name willy wagging, they could drive a more sensible car instead and properly maintain it because parts will be a fraction of the price, and other running costs will be cheaper. We've all met someone who scrimped and saved for an M5 [insert alternative name of fast/expensive car here] who then had to put remoulds on it because they were living beyond their motoring means.
I'm afraid I, and even the best tyre monkeys, are not blessed with X-Ray vision, or prescient powers. If people can't afford to run a car properly and keep it safely maintained then it shouldn't be on the road. Fitting second hand safety equipment is a daft idea.
Far to many people buy cars that are beyond their means to maintain and run properly - the proverbial champagne car on a coca cola budget. If less people worried about their egos and public displays of brand name willy wagging, they could drive a more sensible car instead and properly maintain it because parts will be a fraction of the price, and other running costs will be cheaper. We've all met someone who scrimped and saved for an M5 [insert alternative name of fast/expensive car here] who then had to put remoulds on it because they were living beyond their motoring means.
Bonefish Blues
Banging donk
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- 52 Festive Road
Here's a funny thing. This equipment is first class, top-of-the range stuff. They train specific people to use it. You get to check that the work's done right. It gets your wheels pointing in the right direction at a very fair price for 2 years.Sorry someone mentioned Kwik Fit...no
Of course some may choose not to take advantage of it because of a certain stigma that might attach to a brand. That's their choice.
I have no affiliation to, or love of Kwik Fit, btw.
HF2300
Insanity Prawn Boy
Offence under the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 (as amended).
Governs the way road vehicles are built and (to an extent) used, as its title implies.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/1078/contents/made
HF2300
Insanity Prawn Boy
Isn't that not so much right wing as sensible?
Just to remind you of what can happen if you drive on old (not worn) tyres.
Three people returning from the Bestival music festival died after a coach tyre that was 19-and-a-half years old blew out, an inquest heard.
Mr Price said [the tyre] was only half worn so had either been a spare or in storage for many years.
"This is one of the oldest tyres I have encountered failing," he said.
He said recommendations from manufacturers said tyres should not be fitted to cars if they are six years old, and should be replaced if they are 10 years old.
He said that this was not a legal requirement and that it did not apply to coaches or lorries, which was "frustrating".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-23320526
Three people returning from the Bestival music festival died after a coach tyre that was 19-and-a-half years old blew out, an inquest heard.
Mr Price said [the tyre] was only half worn so had either been a spare or in storage for many years.
"This is one of the oldest tyres I have encountered failing," he said.
He said recommendations from manufacturers said tyres should not be fitted to cars if they are six years old, and should be replaced if they are 10 years old.
He said that this was not a legal requirement and that it did not apply to coaches or lorries, which was "frustrating".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-23320526
Drago
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To you or I, yes, but to a public that largely drive like loons and park without consideration such sensible suggestions are considered somewhere right of Mein Kampf.
