[V8] Tires , how old are your tires ?

Ingo Rautenberg ingo.rautenberg at gmail.com
Wed Feb 17 06:39:12 PST 2010


Ah, yes. I actually had an old (I knew they were old) Pirelli snow tire
loose part of its tread two weeks ago on the freeway. The dangerous part art
SUVs is twofold:

Remember the big hoopla regarding those Firestone 'defective' tires on the
Ford Explorers?  They weren't defective at all. Ford found that the easiest
after the fact way to make their SUV more controllable was to underinflate
the tires dangerously close to the lower recommended inflation limit.

The other factor? Drivers who wouldn't routinely check their tire pressures.
Most blowouts are due to tire underinflation, not overinflation.

My lesson of the day.

On Feb 17, 2010 9:28 AM, "D Morralee" <superdaveski at hotmail.com> wrote:


Audi Brothers



this is an interesting 9min Video on Old tires and the danger of running
with them on your Vehicle .



There is a part of the video when they show you a garage full of wreaked
vehicles .... what I Noticed is they were all SUVs.



Please take the time to watch this , for your safety and your families .



cheers

Superdave




http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4826897
_________________________________________________________________
Introducing Windows® phone.
http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9708122
_______________________________________________
Audifans V8 mailing list
Send posts to: mailto:V8 at audifans.com
Manage your list connection: http://www.audifans.com/mailman/listinfo/v8

You can help keep the audifans site running by shopping at
http://audifans.com/shop/


More information about the V8 mailing list