leave it till last minuete..

[stuboy]

well since may i have been telling my collegue she needs to get a new tyre for her car.. well today she panics as its gone bald..

i did tell her side wall was knackered too

so i put the spare on..

 

and surprsingly the other side is ok too......................................not

[crapcarcollector]

you just can't help some people. 

[Jim Bell]

That really is sailing close to the wind.

 

Even people with little regard for safety, or knowledge of car related things MUST know that tyres are not meant to look like that.

[Albert Ross]

Which is why the Plod need educating on how to recognise bad tyres on cars. They are THE most important component. More points and fines handed out, impounding until it has an MOT booked, and the uplifted to said testing station. The outcome is then used as evidence and a charge made to suit the offence. It might serve to educate  drivers.

[Hendry]

I assume you told her to get her wheel alignment/tracking done too as otherwise the new tyres will be humped in a matter of months too.

[stuboy]

I assume you told her to get her wheel alignment/tracking done too as otherwise the new tyres will be humped in a matter of months too.

got a feeling these were on the front... the spare is 195/65 were rest are 185/65 i said ideally she needs 2 but says oh no got too many birthday presents, so she gonna have mixed size on rear axle... she says she gonna by 1 tyre wednesday as too busy till then

[jbz2079]

It's just plain scary the lack of consideration that some folk give their tyres.

 

Most people that ride Motorbikes know all about tyres and their real effects on safety and handling.

Mostly learned from sliding along the road on their arse!

 

At this time of year we are going into the always wet, sometimes slippy to very slidy season and I personally like

to give myself any advantage I can.

 

Also tyre wear can give visible indications of trouble with  steering and suspension components from uneven wear 

of the tyre treads.

 

I've seen some horrendous tyres that look quite reasonable from a distance on older peoples cars I have worked on for pre-mot work.

These tend to cracked sidewalls and cracks between the tread blocks purely due to the age of the tyre.

 

They are the ones that fly to bits first time they are treated to a fast run on the motorway.

 

I really does pay to give them a look over now and then,  both for safety and your own peace of mind.

[sutty2006]

As said above. Tyres are the most important component along with brakes.

 

You cant put a price on a life lost due to unsafe motoring.... its better to explain a missing present than a missing person Not having a go or owt, just saying whats on my mind!

 

I bought a 740 wentworth off ebay and in the listing it stated "may require two new tyres soon"

 

I cant post a picture up, but the inner edges on the rears where worn down CORDS. So an imediate trip to kwik fit to have two new tyres is what happened. Safety first!!

 

[brickwall]

I'm very careful about tyres. At the end of the day 2 tons can be connected to the road by 4 square feet of rubber at any one time. If a cars tyres have been standing in the sun and the weather they can get fairly damaged too.

[tooSavvy]

..as WVM I drive along behind all sorts. I followed  [after being passed  ] a car with a seriously flat rear N/S tyre. He rambled on about another mile and BANG!!... cue dust cloud and hasty retreat to HShoulder.

 

I'm just amazed at the 'High frequency' harmonics of duff dampers.... inevitably on the rear.... You tell me the driver really doesn't know the back tyre [strangely, just one side or the other] is DreddBeatting along the road...?? If they are both gone then it is likely 'Hedge Bites', I would suppose...

 

tooSavvy

[Partridge]

Which is why the Plod need educating on how to recognise bad tyres on cars. They are THE most important component. More points and fines handed out, impounding until it has an MOT booked, and the uplifted to said testing station. The outcome is then used as evidence and a charge made to suit the offence. It might serve to educate  drivers.

Drive a car on bald or near bald tires in Singapore, and you take your car away from you, end of.

[phil_lihp]

I have regularly felt the need to lecture friends on their tyres, either because they're driving around on bald tyres or they have a quite obviously half-flat tyre with a nail in it.  

 

My ex housemate was grumbling about his car being useless on icy roads, I had a look at it and found he'd been driving (in the snow no less) in a Seat Leon with two racing slicks on the front - it was a company lease car so they weren't even going to cost him money to change but he views the car in the same way as a fridge and never thought to check them.

 

I have managed to persuade one cheapskate acquaintance who did quite a few miles each year that the really cheap and nasty tyres he always went for were a false economy - he finally chose to listen and bought decent ones for the first time and was amazed how much better the car handled and how much longer they lasted.

[hairnet]

3 points a tyre and 60 quid a pop fine

 

its cheaper to buy them........

 

dob her before she causes and accident

[stuboy]

and drove to work muttering light were shite.... one bulb was gone

[Stroller133]

I was pulled over yesterday as part of roadside check. Triggered me to check our other 2 cars today. Probably planning on buying 6 tyres now as found depth to be 2.0 - 3.0 on most tyres. The other 2 were 5mm so should last a while.

 

What depth do people here change at?

 

When I had my company car it annoyed me as policy was if you went below 2.0 they asked tyre fitters to grass you up and risked disciplinary action - fair enough except 2.0 was also the depth they would also authorise replacement. Always got anxious when down below 3.0mm!

[londonm]

That's nothing compared to some women I used to work with, I remember pointing out to one bird her tyres were bald with canvas showing on her company car. She didn't have a clue, daft tart.

[Albert Ross]

On my modern I aim for 3mm as a minimum. On LRs I tend to replace as a set at 4mm. The current set has been on 2 years and is down to 7.5mm approx. New set waiting in the wings at 14mm part worns!

[Negative Creep]

Never mind, a speed or ANPR camera will soon pick her up.

 

 

 

Oh, wait a sec........

[DeeJay]

I used to drive a diesel Transit Connect, company van. Looked like loads of tread on fronts till I parked with wheels at an angle.

At least an inch around both insides were down to the canvas.

Got 2 new tyres fitted roadside.

Apparently a common fault, excessive wear front inside edge every few thousand mile. 

[stuboy]

her old skoda fabia back in april and i told her illegal... will they learn...

 

[Asimo]

A neighbour has had a succession of Renault 25s. I followed one in the dark for about ten miles a year or so ago and was fascinated by a thin line of sparks coming from the rear tyres that got wider and brighter as we neared home. I told him what I had seen and we had a look: Several layers of steel plies worn through on both tyres. He told me he had had an mot following new rear suspension bushes and tyres just a couple of days before.  Something went back wrong, massive amount of toe-in.

[fordperv]

i constantly see cars with tyres like this in supermarket carparks mostly with child seats in the back, not that i go looking for them its just they catch my eye and thats it i start chuntering with the mrs for half an hour about safety, it pees me right off even if someone cannot afford a brand new tyre to replace the bald one there are lots of part worn tyre places around so no excuse really

[overrun]

I once saw a mk3 MX-5 drive past in a cloud of dust as I waited at a junction.

Spectacular blow-out. It even destroyed the rim of the alloy and most of the spokes.

[retrogeezer]

I don't see a problem with tyres being down to around 2mm unless you are doing 80mph down the motorway in the pouring rain.

 

Tyres have more grip on a dry road if they are bald for a start as more tyre surface area is in contact with the road surface, that's why racing cars use slicks obviously.

 

The only time no tread is an issue is on wet/slippy roads so if you drive to the conditions with less tread you shouldn't have any issues.

[eddyramrod]

The only time no tread is an issue is on wet/slippy roads

 

So that's all day every day then... this is Britain, the roads are wet and slippy quite a bit!  I've been thinking about this a bit lately.  I replaced the four tyres on the road, on my Cherry, but only with an assortment of used scrappers.  They just happened to be better than what I had.  Now winter's coming on, and I use the Cherry almost every day at early hours, so I'm thinking of a new set.  New.  Not used, not scrappers, brand new.  And a full set, including the spare.  I don't know how old any of these tyres are, so even though they have plenty of tread, it's going to be worth doing, I think.

[sutty2006]

Personally, I think Britain should adopt what countries like Germany, Holland, Denmark etc etc do. At a certain time of the year, winter tyres are compulsary and made Law. If they can manage it, then so can we. It might stop these dosey tarts skidding about the place when the road is only wet. Might even save a life or 3.

[retrogeezer]

 I didn't say it was o.k to drive with no tread at all Eddy, just that it is only a problem on wet/slippy roads. It doesn't rain that much, not here anyway. Like I said, drive to the conditions whether you have great tyres or not.

[I_am_Diesel]

I usually change my car before the tyres need changing. Have to agree about cheap tyres being false economy. I'm tighter than a sharks arse on a power dive but I'll always buy decent tyres and brake components.

[eddyramrod]

To be fair, RG, you're probably somewhere near right with that.  Most of this country doesn't get enough winter to justify winter tyres, although having said that, I live in a part that does!  I don't know that I want to get involved in the numbers relating to tread depth, as, er, ahem, I've never once measured the depth on any of the 10 tyres I currently own. Should I have whispered that?

[retrogeezer]

Yes!

 

I've got one of those little tyre things in the car and check them pretty often but I don't sweat if they are on 3mm as I don't drive fast or go out in torrential rain. Yes, I might get caught out in it once in a blue moon but I just slow down to a safer speed, keep a bigger distance.