Jim
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Exactly what i am thinking?? surely this applies to RWD and not FWD ??...same principle with front wheel drive?
Step on the gas ???
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ther you go checked at mot a full 12 months of abuse and not a glanceDo you know @Wildbill thats me. I don't throw coffee cups out of my window, but I can honestly say I don't check my tyres every time I get in my car. It's serviced / mot every year etc I just thought they'd pick up problems. I've noticed a slight flat front tyre in the past. But only as it was the drivers side before I got in the door !
Hope alls well with you , Bill, lynn and Jay.
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Personally I think the time scales given for keeping tyres are misleading (a notional 7 years ?) . It's not the time that matters it's the mileage, and not the amount of milage either but the quality. Mine are showing clear signs of wear & tear after just 1.3 years & 12k of some dire European roads and will be replaced this year. (Except the new one I bought in Rotterdam)!
That's one of the reasons I am waiting until after the winter to replace them as mine is in storage, so not moved as much as I would like, so not so much of a problem when they are being replaced anyway.You are right, and no mileage can be just as damaging, especially if tyres spend a lot of time under-inflated. This happens a lot with motorhomes, even more so with caravans and trailers. Where most will check pressures before a long journey, if they are not using that caravan, trailer, motorhome for 4 months they rarely check the pressures. Most motorhome tyres are fully loaded all of the time. If we leave them under-inflated for a winter the sidewall is being damaged. 6 months later, a hot August, a hot French road and BANG that weak spot we made in the winter gives out.
That's one of the reasons I am waiting until after the winter to replace them as mine is in storage, so not moved as much as I would like, so not so much of a problem when they are being replaced anyway.
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...same principle with front wheel drive?
Step on the gas ???
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very useful, but do blow outs only happen on old or damaged tyres?
on a couple of posts relating to blow outs suffered by members (only a couple in four years that I have seen) nobody ever said how old the tyres were
lorry blow outs also seem a lot less common these days, are tyres just better or do we change them more frequently?
I had a front tyre go BANG at 70 mph on a French autoroute in the Westy. It was caused by a pipe laying across 2 lanes that had fallen off a tanker. I had swerved to try to avoid it, but not quite enough and my left front tyre ran right over the stainless steel connector. That's a big heavy chunk of metal. I didn't brake but neither did I press on the loud pedal. I lifted off and managed to steer until we stopped on the hard shoulder. Then, noticed an Aire 200m ahead so drove very slowly into that. The tyre had 5 holes in the sidewalls I could put my hand through. Luckily the tyre blow out must have absorbed all the energy from the collision with the pipe and that saved the alloy wheel, suspension and steering from serious damage. The tyre was probably about 2 years old.
It taught me that relying on Fix 'n Go kits to get you going again after a puncture (instead of a proper spare wheel) is naive. To me that is a manufacturer's myth that needs busting. Does anyone really believe that it justifies not providing a spare wheel as standard? Has anyone actually used the fix n' goo kit successfully?
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