OT: tires

Sep 19, 2019 Last reply: 6 years ago 249 Replies
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It should be dealer reset when the tyres have been fitted although it may need a second reset as they bed in. No idea why but the warning light sometimes comes on spontaneously a few hundred miles later but for no apparent reason. Checking the tyre pressures shows that they are all "normal" - ie. set to exactly the same pressure by the dealer. (which isn't right but isn't too disastrous either)

Most times I have checked main dealer or quickfit pressurised tyres they have all been inflated to the same pressure midway between whatever the front and rear axles recommend though sometimes a bit on the high side.

I wouldn't put it past them to inflate all tyres to the same pressure...

What a stupid design.

Just as well most cars don't do that.

So far I have never had the misfortune to run a vehicle fitted with this level of *assume the driver is an idiot* monitoring.

However, we are due to change as the diesel Fiesta is approaching cam belt time and my wife is agitating for electric or auto gearbox. motoring. After 50+ years driving you might think gear changing is not difficult.

Skimming this thread and recent others, I have been reminded just how expensively vulnerable modern cars are to electronic gizmos likely to lead to MOT failures.

My thinking is to get the cam belt changed:-)

On the other hand, I changed to an automatic 6 years ago after 55 years of manuals. It makes driving so much more restful, especially in traffic jams which are becoming more common.

This is my second automatic, and I would never want to go back to a manual now. Just because I _could_ cope with a gearbox doesn't mean that I would do so as a preference.

Chris

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Try the index -

50 years ago Dunlop SP3s on a Mini Cooper S. Lucky to get 5000 miles out of them and they weren't cheap

A mini tyre is on a 10" rim the defender had a 20" IIRC. or thereabouts. So half the revolutins and twice the potential tread thickness = 4 times the mileage.

And being all terrain and quite all season sort of tyres they werent soft and wear-ey. They were hard.

Minis ate tyres anyway.

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