I bet they ride smooth.
6 inches of snow predicted tonight.
6 inches of snow predicted tonight.
This tire was on the van next to me at Verizon
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I forget the statistic, but there are lots of vehicles on the roads with bald tires. I think it is huge.
Check out what Consumer Reports said
"A recent study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that nearly 50 percent of the 11,500 cars, pickup trucks, vans, and sport-utility vehicles the agency checked had at least one tire with half-worn tread. Another 10 percent had at least one bald tire."
kinda scary... and it reminds me I need tires.
BTW, I bet this is more common with the economic situation at hand.
Check out what Consumer Reports said
"A recent study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that nearly 50 percent of the 11,500 cars, pickup trucks, vans, and sport-utility vehicles the agency checked had at least one tire with half-worn tread. Another 10 percent had at least one bald tire."
kinda scary... and it reminds me I need tires.
BTW, I bet this is more common with the economic situation at hand.
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This also happened to me recently. I was waiting in the car for my wife to pick up a couple of things at a milk store and noticed the car next to me had tires with no tread, and the front left had cord showing. When the woman came out I rolled down the window and mentioned to her about the bad tire. She thanked me, but said she just doesn't have money for tires. I felt sorry for her. Must have a hard life.
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And we think that cars should have wide, low profile and EXPENSIVE tires when people cant even keep more standard sizes?
That tire might be good for ice, but not snow, rain, bit of sand etc!!!
Times are hard for lots of folks, I know thats no excuse, but it beats eating cat & dog food.
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This also happened to me recently. I was waiting in the car for my wife to pick up a couple of things at a milk store and noticed the car next to me had tires with no tread, and the front left had cord showing. When the woman came out I rolled down the window and mentioned to her about the bad tire. She thanked me, but said she just doesn't have money for tires. I felt sorry for her. Must have a hard life.
They have $100 a month for cell phones. Happy I live in a state with mandatory vehicle inspections. Of course you can coast through with 3/32 and get another year.
CR says half the cars have at least one tire half used up? Whoda thunk?
This also happened to me recently. I was waiting in the car for my wife to pick up a couple of things at a milk store and noticed the car next to me had tires with no tread, and the front left had cord showing. When the woman came out I rolled down the window and mentioned to her about the bad tire. She thanked me, but said she just doesn't have money for tires. I felt sorry for her. Must have a hard life.
They have $100 a month for cell phones. Happy I live in a state with mandatory vehicle inspections. Of course you can coast through with 3/32 and get another year.
CR says half the cars have at least one tire half used up? Whoda thunk?
That is a famous tire i think it is called a baldini but it could be a may-pop also i had a set a while ago...
Low resistance tires, must get amazing fuel economy!
That was incredibly common during the time I lived in South Carolina.
Makes me sort of thankful for a mandatory-inspection state. Although, if your tires are 3/32" in December and squeak by, don't drive on the same road as me in January.
Makes me sort of thankful for a mandatory-inspection state. Although, if your tires are 3/32" in December and squeak by, don't drive on the same road as me in January.
When I changed the tires on my S2000 in the Fall of 2009 they were almost like that. My S2000 was accelerating/cornering on dry surface better when tread remaining was less than 2/32", since we have no rain in So Cal during summer months it was perfectly safe with little to no tread, but it is dangerous on wet surface specially on highway.
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Let's take a second look at the following piece of bureaucrat b.s. babble......
"A recent study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that nearly 50 percent of the 11,500 cars, pickup trucks, vans, and sport-utility vehicles the agency checked had at least one tire with half-worn tread."
Well, Duh!!! We put on new tires, we use them up, we get new ones. Of course half of all vehicles will have half worn tires. And a few cars have new tires, and one-fourth have three-quarter tread, and another fourth have one-quarter tread, and................
And to think; My tax dollars at work!
"A recent study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that nearly 50 percent of the 11,500 cars, pickup trucks, vans, and sport-utility vehicles the agency checked had at least one tire with half-worn tread."
Well, Duh!!! We put on new tires, we use them up, we get new ones. Of course half of all vehicles will have half worn tires. And a few cars have new tires, and one-fourth have three-quarter tread, and another fourth have one-quarter tread, and................
And to think; My tax dollars at work!
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