Tyres falling to pieces!
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I thought I'd share this for amusement and the fact that I was shocked things could get so bad. My other half has been putting off her tyre change for quite some time now as she was short on money however as I've been driving the car to get some stuff sorted in the engine, I found it would skid about loads and was completely unstable in corners.
A quick look at the tyres confirmed the front ones was totally worn so I booked it in for a pair of PS3's.
When I took it in, the mechanic asked me to come into the garage to show me the rears. While they had enough tread to make them just about legal, the rubber was so rotten, it could literally be picked away with the mechanics fingernails!
When he put it in the machine to remove the tyre from the alloy, the tyre literally fell apart in front of our eyes with cracking all around the rim of the tyre! (I got them also changed)
Shocking stuff! Short of the long is I'll keep a closer eye on gf's car...
A quick look at the tyres confirmed the front ones was totally worn so I booked it in for a pair of PS3's.
When I took it in, the mechanic asked me to come into the garage to show me the rears. While they had enough tread to make them just about legal, the rubber was so rotten, it could literally be picked away with the mechanics fingernails!
When he put it in the machine to remove the tyre from the alloy, the tyre literally fell apart in front of our eyes with cracking all around the rim of the tyre! (I got them also changed)
Shocking stuff! Short of the long is I'll keep a closer eye on gf's car...
I've had a similar thing on a 2005 Polo 1.4
We bought a 2 year old Polo 1.4 as a company runabout for the staff and a couple of years down the line was just checking it over one day when I discovered that despite the rear tyres having considerable tread depth on them they were quite badly cracked and had almost become quite hard and brittle.
They were the original tyres from new so were over 4 years old and had covered about 35,000 miles, but I assume due to the light weight of the rear of the Polo and the easy life they had, they were hardly worn.
I think they would have actually fell to bits/delaminated well before they actually wore down to the legal limit.
We bought a 2 year old Polo 1.4 as a company runabout for the staff and a couple of years down the line was just checking it over one day when I discovered that despite the rear tyres having considerable tread depth on them they were quite badly cracked and had almost become quite hard and brittle.
They were the original tyres from new so were over 4 years old and had covered about 35,000 miles, but I assume due to the light weight of the rear of the Polo and the easy life they had, they were hardly worn.
I think they would have actually fell to bits/delaminated well before they actually wore down to the legal limit.
Smegmium said:
God thats bad, they arent what i'd class as "old" at all - must be cheap rubbish...
I have a set over 15 years old on one of my cars and they look as good as new, they are a funny metric dunlop tyre so were probably well made.
They weren't cheap! Pirelli P-Zero's!I have a set over 15 years old on one of my cars and they look as good as new, they are a funny metric dunlop tyre so were probably well made.
Not sure if they've been deflated before but they were run-flats.
Either way I'm glad she's got some decent rubber on the car now....in time for winter and the rain.
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