Re: story about tyres on TV tonight

"Noddy" <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Daryl Walford" <dwalford@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> I saw the story, some "expert" from Wheels claimed that tyres more than
6 
>> yrs old "dry out" and become dangerous.
>
> He's the editor I think, and a greater ****wit you'd be hard pressed to 
> find :)

HA! Just look in the mirror you ****wit. Here we go again. You sure do
have 
a jealous streak in you don't you, or is it just that you grew a chip on 
your shoulder instead of a brain?

>
>> The only evidence they showed to sup****t this was some testing in the
US 
>> where a tyre blew causing a 4WD to roll, they didn't present any
evidence 
>> that these so called dangerous tyres are responsible for any serious 
>> crashes here.
>> IMO its possible that an older tyre will be harder and won't have as
much 
>> traction as a new tyre but I don't know of any tyre failures caused
just 
>> by a tyres age.
>
> "New" tyres are generally fine in storage as rubber doesn't do much
until 
> it's exposed to the elements. I couldn't give a rats how old the "new" 
> tyres I buy. As long as they've been stored correctly I wouldn't have
the 
> slightest problem with them.

An accurate comment for a change.


Roger