Paul wrote:
> N8N wrote:
>
>> I'm just curious, is there any evidence that exposure to elements,
>> ozone, whatever causes the rubber in car tires to get hard? I was
>> whining and crying like a little girl about the Goodyear tires on my
>> company car and how unsafe they were in the wet, they had no traction
>> whatsoever. Eventually they wore out enough to the point that I got
>> the fleet people to authorize replacement. I remember even posting
>> about how much better the new tires were than the old Goodyears.
>> Well, today it was raining while I was driving to work and again I
>> have no traction whatsoever! Trying to accelerate from a stop sign or
>> light at anything more than a snail's pace results in massive
>> wheelspin, and uphill - fugettaboutit. I don't think it's oil on the
>> roads, as it's rained within the last week, just not during any time
>> that I had to drive the car. I don't think it's my foot, either,
>> although I am not the slowest driver on the road. Can anyone think of
>> an explanation as to why I seem to be having such issues with
>> completely unacceptable wet-weather traction, when my tires are barely
>> worn?
>>
>> nate
>
>
> Ozone and sunlight (UV) and general de-volatilization, but it takes
years.
> How old are those tires?
That's the thing, they're about 6 months old, give or take (if I looked
up my old posts, I could get them within a couple days.) They're
Uniroyal Tiger Paws, and I do remember remarking that they were
significantly better than the old Goodyear whatever the heck they were
tires that they replaced. And no, I didn't notice any of my neighbors
or coworkers pouring transmission fluid on my front tires, or any
excessive amounts of smoke. I also don't notice any significant tread
wear, so what I'm experiencing is either extroardinarily slick roads or
else a physical change in the physical properties of the tire. I
haven't been through a car wash in a while, either, so I guess that
rules out enthusiastic applications of inappropriate tire dressing.
It doesn't help, of course, that when accelerating from a non-zero speed
that one can press the accelerator down a small distance where nothing
happens other than the engine gets really loud, and then you press a
little more and the trans drops two gears and suddenly you have actual
torque being presented to the front tires. Would be a heck of a lot
easier to drive smoothly if it had a manual transmission, but I guess
that is not a popular option among Impala buyers.
nate
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