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Unsafe tires.
Google,,, Millions driving on unsafe tires. ...Tires that look new, but are actually old. It was on TV news a few minutes ago.
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Unsafe tires.
Tires have date codes on them, yet totally
indecipherable to the average customer in a tire store. And even recalling and replacing all those tires is a drop in the bucket nationally: Most vehicles on the road have either too much or too little air in the tires, some vehicles have both! |
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Unsafe tires.
On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 15:52:52 -0700 (PDT), JR >
wrote: >Google,,, Millions driving on unsafe tires. ...Tires that look new, but are actually old. It was on TV news a few minutes ago. Yeah, it's almost entirely Bullcrap. The tires are failing from underinflation, not "age". The tire industry keeps promoting this lie to sell more tires. |
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Unsafe tires.
On 2015-10-30, Ashton Crusher > wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 15:52:52 -0700 (PDT), JR > > wrote: > >>Google,,, Millions driving on unsafe tires. ...Tires that look new, but are actually old. It was on TV news a few minutes ago. > > Yeah, it's almost entirely Bullcrap. The tires are failing from > underinflation, not "age". The tire industry keeps promoting this lie > to sell more tires. dry rot can cause a tire failure, I experienced it first hand when I was teen. Before it was a thing to be paranoid about everything. A tire went flat. It was dry rotted and just gave up. Not dramatically, I just heard the air hissing out at a stop light. Then I found the spare had tread separated in the trunk from dry rot, but still holding air. It thumped but allowed the car to hobble to a parking lot. So basically it's just annoying. Especially in a country that doesn't allow for civilized speeds over 99+% of it. At high speed it might be an issue. Would I be happy about being sold a set of NOS tires when I thought they were new? Yes. Because if it's a car I'm not driving a lot I lose life on the tires. |
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Unsafe tires.
Brent: NOS?
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Unsafe tires.
On 10/31/2015 05:18 PM, . wrote:
> On 10/31/2015 6:05 PM, wrote: >> Brent: NOS? > > NOS = New Old Stock, or new inventory that had sat around > but had never been sold. The Caddy dealer sold my mom a set of NOS Bridgestone tires at premium tire prices before she gave me the car. When they developed tread bubbles within the dealer referred me to the official Bridgestone dealer, who told me they were obsolete when the were purchased. The Bridgestone shop replaced them at no charge, but it really wasn't their problem. Bewley Allen in Alhambra is now out of business. They offered her a pittance as a trade-in on her new car so she gave it to me instead; I KNOW they didn't offer her much because they knew exactly how ****ty their quarterly service (which she always had them do) was. I wish it were possible for them to rot in hell. -- Cheers, Bev 0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o 0o0o0o0o0o0o0 Judges are our only protection against a legal system that can afford lots more prosecution than we can afford defense. |
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Unsafe tires.
"On 10/31/2015 6:05 PM, wrote:
> Brent: NOS? NOS = New Old Stock, or new inventory that had sat around but had never been sold. " THANK YOU! |
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Unsafe tires.
New Old Stocks(no I will not abbreviate that!) should
be against the law, given what I've read on here. |
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Unsafe tires.
On Sat, 31 Oct 2015 22:19:17 -0000 (UTC), Brent
> wrote: >On 2015-10-30, Ashton Crusher > wrote: >> On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 15:52:52 -0700 (PDT), JR > >> wrote: >> >>>Google,,, Millions driving on unsafe tires. ...Tires that look new, but are actually old. It was on TV news a few minutes ago. >> >> Yeah, it's almost entirely Bullcrap. The tires are failing from >> underinflation, not "age". The tire industry keeps promoting this lie >> to sell more tires. > >dry rot can cause a tire failure, I experienced it first hand when I >was teen. Before it was a thing to be paranoid about everything. A tire >went flat. It was dry rotted and just gave up. Not dramatically, I just >heard the air hissing out at a stop light. Then I found the spare had >tread separated in the trunk from dry rot, but still holding air. It >thumped but allowed the car to hobble to a parking lot. So basically >it's just annoying. Especially in a country that doesn't allow for >civilized speeds over 99+% of it. At high speed it might be an issue. > >Would I be happy about being sold a set of NOS tires when I thought they >were new? Yes. Because if it's a car I'm not driving a lot I lose life >on the tires. Nothing is 100%. I had a set of Pirellis and two of the 4 failed on the freeway, at about one month apart, at 22K and 3 years of age. I didn't wait for the other two to fail.... They always had proper tire pressure. I've got 14 year old, 65K tires on another vehicle and so far they have not failed. |
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