Recent content by Volvohead

Look at my handle. For many decades, I drove Volvos. I still own one. The original long life car (back when they made them in Sweden). When you own and drive one vehicle for 15 or 20, or well over 20 years, as I have, you develop a very good sense of how it is doing on any particular day...

I looked at your thread and test. That's remarkable. Not just that there was some hard carbon deposits quickly released with that combination of oils, but that your MB engine would have developed such deposits on 229.5 oils after only 23,000 miles of service. I would think you don't need to...

I very rarely post here anymore (too much contention and pointless food fights over nonsense). But as a fellow longtime MB owner with a late reply, you can run this new Valvoline product with confidence in a Mercedes 229.5 engine, at a significantly reduced OCI. And with the caveat that the...

It probably helps in these situations to also give a little historical perspective, as sometimes the present moment seems very different from the past, which is often prologue. If the numb skulls and clowns want to label it a rant, that's their problem. I'm merely presenting it as a little...

If your question is whether there is potential liability to the installer in defective tire cases, the answer is yes. Absolutely so. And at a minimum litigation exposure. You don't need published caselaw for that. Just start searching the court dockets. Installers get sued all the time in...

Not exactly. There are rules for tire manufacture, and then there are rules and resulting best practices for the field that can be held to apply as the standard of care. The latter are what would apply to installers here. The best practices, as dictated by the industry and its regulations...

I absolutely agree with you. But tire manufacturers are notoriously resistant to these things. Yokohama and a few others got called on the carpet in some of these decisions, and tried to argue some of the same things that some of the knucklehead here have. You may be old enough to remember...

No, you're not necessarily wrong. The issue isn't about "freshness" or how old a tire is. It is about when there is a tire recall, and how much effort is required to find out what's on your car. If you are going to have to pull the wheels to find out exactly what's on the car, a lot of...

Those are pretty much idiot proof, and the manufacturers place all the DOT data on the side marked "Outside". That's what the above Pirelli decision was stressing. Those asymmetricals have additional assurances of being installed right. Your second point is the key one, and I sympathize with...

You’re dead wrong. NHTSA since 2013 has already determined those tires as “mismounted”. If the tire later fails and it involves serious injury or death, you can call your carrier if you were the installer. People like you were always the first ones to wet their pants once they were on the...

No one said it was illegal. The police won't be busting your door down if you do it on your own car. Mount your own tires however you like. The obligation to know what you have on your car is on you. But if you're the one mounting the tires for someone else, you could be liable for...

Of course they could. But they don't You can all guffaw all you like. But when the lazy or unwitting motorist refuses to crawl up their wheel well to figure out if they have a bad tire, the tire later blows out, and kills someone in your family who was doing nothing wrong, it's not so funny...

Just a PSA for anyone who is doing this in the business, and for all of us who are just buying tires. I'm mentioning it, as I actually have to go back and have an uncomfortable chat on Monday morning with a very skilled (but not up to date) old timer, who then is going to have to remount three...

They shouldn't. Read the thread.

Pabs, you’re still here! One of our most senior members. I tip my oil cap to you.