A friendly reminder to check your tyres – You can do this with a euro. If you see the gold edge when pressing it between the thread, it may be time to change them.
A friendly reminder to check your tyres – You can do this with a euro. If you see the gold edge when pressing it between the thread, it may be time to change them.
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Should that be, if you *can’t* see the gold edge when you push it in you should consider replacing them?
Sound job!
Another friendly reminder: Buy some good tyres, people. Don’t go with the cheapest shite the tyre shop has. Yes it can cost a lot more, but I’d rather pay a bit more for a better chance of staying on the road and not dying. You wouldn’t think there is a huge difference, because rubber is rubber and there are standards that must be met, but there is a massive difference. Its night and day.
I’ve always had decent tyres on my car since I started driving. One of my cars has upgraded brakes that come on the high performance version usually, so its has plenty stopping power. I normally used Michelin Pilot Sports, but my front tyres were below 3mm but still well above legal, but they would be an advisory on the NCT and I didn’t want that on the sheet, so I got a loan of two of the same wheels that a friend of mine had off a spares car he owns which had Jinyu tyres on it. I had ordered a new set of 4 Michelins, but they were out of stock and would take a bit longer than usual and I’d have missed my NCT. Well on with the Jinyu wheels for a few days. One day I was just after turning onto my own road and was driving towards my house when a ball comes bouncing out on the road, so I pressed the brakes fairly hard to slow down in case a child came out after the ball. Thats when I noticed my pedal was juddering and the ABS light was lit up on the dash. I wasn’t going more than 40km/h in the dry and the ABS came on. Not something that usually happens. I waiting until the young lad grabbed the ball and drove home and couldn’t stop thinking about it. I tested inside in my own yard a few times and sure enough, ABS would come on above 30km/h most of the time if I slammed the brakes.
When my new Pilot Sport 4s came in and I got them fitted, I did the same test in my yard. No ABS. I went out to a very quiet stretch of road that night where I knew I wouldn’t bother anyone and went to 100km/h and absolutely slammed the brakes. It wasn’t raining, but was a bit misty and the ground had a shine on it. No ABS, just stopped. I did it again, same thing, no ABS or pedal judder, just stopped very quickly. So quick that when I did it a third time, I noticed the car would be stopped still when the speedometer was still at about 25km/h on its way down to 0. Any temptation to buy cheap tyres was gone after that. The cheapest tyre I’d buy is Uniroyal Rainsports. They came on another car I had and they were very good, especially in the wet. Ideal for the wet weather we get here.
Depending on your driving style….you might want to change them sooner than that. Fast driving in rain, the thread depth will incluence the onset of aquaplaning. Aquaplaning should only happen in nightmares.
There are Tread Indicator Notches around the circumference of the tyre. They will tell you when you’ve reached minimum legal depth
If we need a PSA for this you might want to include checking around the tyre and not just a single spot.
Time to file down my euro coin again, I need to head out to work.
Tread, not thread.
As a complete dumbass American, I thought the middle was glass for a second. Now I’m sad.
I don’t have a euro
You know there are thread depth indicators built into every tyre, right?
Now how do I do this with Apple Pay?