Burning Rubber Gets Expensive

You get what you pay for. There's also no requirement you keep the tires
that your car came with.

If I lived up north I definitely would not depend on "all season" tires.
Sounds like a good way to end up dead.

>
> #1 referred me to this job, likes to drive motorcycles, and I have
noted
> him to have engineering talent and a little bit as a little bit of a
hobby
> design cars that perform like motorcycles.
>
> #2 came onto the job without a car but really wanted to drive a car

> rather than a bike, and quit his bike when he could afford a car.
>
> Both #1 and #2 when driving cars drove their cars as if they were
> bicycle messengers. I have been a car passenger for both.
>
> #2 had a significant accident record, although bragged about high
> percentage of accidents not ruled his fault. #1 avoided an accident
> record.

As someone who also enjoys motorcycles, I'd not be surprised to hear
that part of the reason that #1 has avoided accidents is because he's a
motorcyclist.. in a dispute between a bike and a car, the biker will
always lose, regardless of who's fault it was.

We lost our eye doc last year.. he was in his 50's, rode for more than
half his life, raced both cars and bikes on tracks, and was a MSF
instructor.. in a 35mph zone a UPS truck turned left in front of him.
Both him and the bike went under the truck, he was pronounced dead at
the scene.

Regards,

Jim

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 19:01:19 -0700, Laura Bush murdered her boy friend
wrote:

>
> MrPepper11 wrote:
>> April 21, 2005
>> Burning Rubber Gets Expensive
>> Pricey Tires Increasingly Come Standard on Cars, But Wear Out Easily
>> By MICHELLE HIGGINS
>> Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
>>
>> What do a Hyundai Sonata and a Porsche have in common?
>>
>> High-performance tires.
>>
>
> One more reason to drive slow. I bought a couple tires a month back
> and the installed price for the whole job was $85. Last summer i
> bought a pair of the same tires and it only cost $65. Four tires
> installed = $150. And they work just fine.

My wife's tires cost twice that, and mine 3x. Add in the winter tires for
the wite's car, and it does get expesnive. Of course we don't by crap
tires either.

--
Keith

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 00:26:51 -0400, Magnulus wrote:

> You get what you pay for. There's also no requirement you keep the tires
> that your car came with.
>
> If I lived up north I definitely would not depend on "all season" tires.
> Sounds like a good way to end up dead.

I ran all-seasons for years, with no big problems ("summers" before that,
with some issues, but...;-). I don't do it anymore because tires these
days are *cheap*. I paid >$100/tire twenty years ago and still pay more
or less the same, for better tires. ,,,and that $100 is certainly
different!

--
Keith

I like the low rolling resistance tires (they use silica instead of just
carbon black); that's why I'd personally probably take snow tires instead if
there was a possibility of ice on the road. I've heard they are not the
best on snow, though they are trying to improve that. They seem fine to me
with rain (which we get alot of in Florida- no snow though), though some
people say they are bad in rain- I never noticed.

My current tires are Michelin Energy Plus. Very pricey but they came with
the vehicle. Next time I'll probably get the Bridgestone Potenza RE950's.
I read hybrid cars used to come with these low-rolling resistance tires but
people complained about them and they swapped out the tires for regular "all
season" tires. The LRR tires don't have a long tire life from the tire guy
I talked to (30,000 miles, which really is not bad), but they will make up
for it in fuel savings (they increase fuel economy by 2-5 percent vs.
regular tires).

there are different winter tires.. there are mud and snow tires with big
chunky lugs then there are ice and rain tires which look similar to
all-seasons but have a lot more snipes for grip on the ice.

Snow...


"Magnulus" > wrote in message
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> I like the low rolling resistance tires (they use silica instead of just
> carbon black); that's why I'd personally probably take snow tires instead
> if
> there was a possibility of ice on the road. I've heard they are not the
> best on snow, though they are trying to improve that. They seem fine to
> me
> with rain (which we get alot of in Florida- no snow though), though some
> people say they are bad in rain- I never noticed.
>
> My current tires are Michelin Energy Plus. Very pricey but they came
> with
> the vehicle. Next time I'll probably get the Bridgestone Potenza RE950's.
> I read hybrid cars used to come with these low-rolling resistance tires
> but
> people complained about them and they swapped out the tires for regular
> "all
> season" tires. The LRR tires don't have a long tire life from the tire
> guy
> I talked to (30,000 miles, which really is not bad), but they will make up
> for it in fuel savings (they increase fuel economy by 2-5 percent vs.
> regular tires).
>
>