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OT: car tyres
May 05, 2019
Last reply: 7 years ago
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ISTR 7 years on caravans.
A number? In over 30 years I've never had one. (Famous last words.) What do you do to your tyres?
Presumably then the max pressure quoted is the pressure when cold.
Bit like low profile tyres and gas filled shock absorbers.
I have. And the fella I got to do the wheel alignment pointed out why it was happening, the tires were f***ed. Very obvious with it up on the hoist, spin the wheel, visibly eccentric in spots.
Maybe modern wheels are self
Fraid not.
Hard to notice on a rented van you've never driven before either.
DAMHIK...
Source?
AIUI both gases follow the gas laws - they are a long way from liquefaction.
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suggest the most useful thing isn't that it's nitrogen, it's that it's dry. And water won't be following the gas laws at normal temperature and pressure.
Andy
Yes, as "No va" is Spanish for "Not going" and would not have gone down well with the dealers trying to sell them!
SteveW
I once had a Vauxhall Nova - built in Spain.
Annoying electrical problems related to the cheap soft plastic they used for connectors. Instead of a spade terminal mating firmly with it mating half the mating half would be pushed out out of the back of its housing so the connections were often marginal and failed with vibration.
None of mine have ever done that. Havent even bothered to check any tires that I havent told them to replace either.
None of mine have ever cared about that possibility.
OK, I think it was three in total. Two of them on the same journey where a badly signed temporary road surface caught me out with a sharp step in the tarmac apparently doing damage that later proved terminal.
Only one spare, so the second one needed assistance.
Chris
As I said, I had four new quality tyres fitted. Only two needed balance weights added - and pretty small ones too.
Look at brand new cars. Very few have balance weights added.
Wish I could find those for my other car. Road noise is deafening. ;-)
Good grief. I thought you were at least 80 years old.
Of course not. If the car is being serviced, they likely should check all the tyres. But a tyre fitter doesn't service cars.
Really? Thought the whole point of brake fluid was the very high boiling point?
Fit ribbed tread tyres rather than block tread tyres.
They're not block tread. More to do with the size, I'd say.
Really, Kermit? This from one who doesn't know what parking means?
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