graham bowers
Guru
[QUOTE 4978744, member: 45"]Ignore all this 3mm drama and just drive really slowly.[/QUOTE]
Reads like Viz advice ;-))
Reads like Viz advice ;-))
I think it's a waste of money paying to have tyres changed around, unless you are able to negotiate a very good deal when you eventually replace all four (or five) on the same day.Why?
I'm not denying that aquaplaning exists , just that in my experience it has been easily avoided.Its not a selling tactic. Been proven time and again. Performance drops off a cliff on the graph at this point, on wet or dry roads.
Tread moves a fixed volume of water away from the road surface for a particular set speed. That volume of water you need to shift doesn't change, but as the volume of tyre tread reduces, so there is less volume of tread to shift the same volume if water. Water is incompressible so once the volume of tread reduces beyond the volume of water, then that water has nowhere to go and your tyre starts to ride on a cushion of water. Most of the time you won't even be aware this is happening, but it most assuredly is.
The mechanics behind the operation of tyre tread are quite simple. There is a vast reservoir of independent testing out there, including MIRA, TRL, NTSB, French MTE, German TuV, and dozens of others, and they all say the same. None of these organisations sell tyres or have any financial axe to grind
Aquaplaning is primarily caused by speed. F1 drivers can aquaplane with new wet tyres if they go too fast . So if you adjust your speed to the conditions, unless you have bold tyres, you will not aquaplane.
Aquaplaning is primarily caused by speed. F1 drivers can aquaplane with new wet tyres if they go too fast . So if you adjust your speed to the conditions, unless you have bold tyres, you will not aquaplane.
I will change the front tyres soon but will put the back ones at the front and the new ones at the back, this is the advice I got from my brother who knows his stuff as it is part of his job. The reason for that is: in the wet, the front tyres send the water to the rear which creates more work for the back tyres to disperse the water, hence brand new at the back , deeper treads.
My brother is right for completely the right reasons as he has driven cars in both conditions so he has first hand experience of it.Too fast being how fast exactly?
Your Bother is right, but for completely the wrong reason.
My wife had a Mondeo, as a company car, when she worked for a health consultancy firm, it was a '04' plate, so a mark 3(??)This is why I never drive a Ford. You would just be asking for trouble.