leave it till last minuete..

[eddyramrod]

So do I, and that was before my recent "Speed Awareness Course"...........

[fordperv]

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.

Completely agree there "winter" tyres would make a big impact on the number of poor weather accidents, People May actually become more aware of those oh so unimportant rubber rings that keep your nice alloys from touching the floor when you drive as well

[DSdriver]

Girl in a mates office came in one rainy morning a few years ago complaining that her car was making a chattering noise when she pulled up at the lights on the way to work. He went outside for a look and diagnosed two bald front tyres and the noise was the ABS helping her to stop. "That's all right then" she said. Not really.

[retrogeezer]

I was driving that Mazda 323 I had into town one day a few years back and noticed it was kind of 'shaking' a little when I got to 20-25ish, I took the back wheels of and one of the tyres had deformed a bit into a kind of S shape. That was changed straight away!

 

It's actually amazing how many people are totally unaware of the condition of any part of their cars. I've told christ knows how many people that they have a flat tyre before they have even noticed and I would feel it straight away when driving. And how many people do you see with a headlight out? Do they not notice? You can see your lights in the back of the car in front of you when you are in traffic for a start. 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

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.

 

...and yet all of those countries have significantly higher fatalities per 100,000 inhabitants than the UK. Germany's fatalities per billion kilometres travelled are double ours. 

 

We don't need new tyre legislation landing motorists with massive bills and effectively forcing low mileage cars off the road over winter (or encouraging them to use inappropriate winter tyres all through the summer). We need to put effort into educating motorists everyone about tyre safety, or the only difference will be the same people still driving around with bald tyres, only they now have snowflake symbols. 

 

I'd suggest a high profile campaign with free tread depth gauges distributed (sent out with tax discs perhaps). I'd also like to see plain English dates on tyres instead of cryptic codes.

[mercrocker]

Hmmm not more legislation....get the silly bints off the road instead maybe.. I am always sceptical of these campaigns for this and that because they usually seem to emanate from the industry concerned.   My mate put his missis in a well specced and brand new Nini with decent rubber and  she still parked it in a ditch first frosty morning.   Tyres are important and I dont skimp but neither do I buy massively expensive stuff although I have a fetish about  it all being matching tread patterns.   Another friend of mine has a piss poor attitude too - buys a new Kuga every year and when he had a puncture on the latest one chucked on a part-worn "cos I  only keep the car for a year, innit?"  Pillock....

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Check out this van that I followed the other morning, it had the most unbelievable crab effect going on, I've never seen owt like it

 

 

must have been a good 8 inches difference from front to back, god knows what was wrong with it, the Back axle must have been totally cock-eyed or something 

[Spiny Norman]

I'd suggest a high profile campaign with free tread depth gauges distributed (sent out with tax discs perhaps).

 

Not convinced. The free eyes people have don't seem to be much use for checking that the lights work.

[eddyramrod]

...Or that their foglights are "on" when there's no fucking fog!  Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

[cort16]

The rear tyre on my Merc looked okay on the outside but was totally knackered on the inside. it got spotted by the dealer when it was serviced. A bit embarrased about that TBH.

 

I mentioned on another thread I'd put some pretty shit rear tyres on my XJR and the affect is unbelievable.  It's barely driveable. Good luck trying to pull out of a wet junction even with the traction control on. I recon I need to stump up for some half decent rubber (even if it's 2nd hand) before I try to sell it else the buyer might not even make it to the end of the street.