The Advice Thread

[sycophantia]

The friction applied to the tyres through bad tracking can cause splitting?

Didn't know that, all the issues I've seen with poor tracking/wheel alignment have just been excessive wear mainly on the inside of tyres.

 

[The Bear]

If its causing repetitive twisting on parts of the rubber then it can absolutely split the sidewalls near the top.

 

[Dublin Drummer Wolf]

Here in Ireland, if your tyres are older than 6yrs they get flagged when you do your NCT (MOT in the UK)

So to answer your question LJ it seems they should last a minimum of 6yrs

 

[pagey]

A question for those on here with an EV, does the extra weight of the car cause tyres to degrade faster than normal?

 

[Tredman]

Nah, still plenty of tread left on my ipace when I changed them at 4 years / 45k miles. Only changed them as I wanted all season and it was a good excuse.

 

[Kenny]

A question for those on here with an EV, does the extra weight of the car cause tyres to degrade faster than normal?

Was the case in early models. Think around 20% quicker than tyres on ICE vehicles.
As with everything though, manufacturers had a problem and worked on it. Should see the same as an ICE now unless you drive like LJ...

Tip though, some garages/tyre fitters dont hold a lot of EV tyres in stock, so if you are going in for a routine change find out before hand so they can order them in.

 

[leedswolf]

A question for those on here with an EV, does the extra weight of the car cause tyres to degrade faster than normal?

The extra weight will produce more friction. Both tyres and road surface will be affected.

 

[pagey]

Came across this on my news feed earlier, and if they degrade to that extent I wouldn't have bothered. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/c...-car-heavy-had-change-tyres-after-7500-miles/

 

[Sniffer]

I’d look at the green credentials of the rag reporting the story rather than the story itself.

 

[The Bear]

Came across this on my news feed earlier, and if they degrade to that extent I wouldn't have bothered. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/c...-car-heavy-had-change-tyres-after-7500-miles/

Absolute horseshit.

I've just done 10k on my Tesla and they aren't even close to needing new ones. My uncle who has the same Model 3 just changed his at 50k for the first time in the same period of 3 years old.

 

[Kenny]

Came across this on my news feed earlier, and if they degrade to that extent I wouldn't have bothered. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/c...-car-heavy-had-change-tyres-after-7500-miles/

I work with people who have EV's and travel 20k+ and have no issues.

A few customers who have reported issues but it's a tiny amount and no different to other cars.
As with the majority of main media outlets they will jump on anything negative on an EV and make it out to be a lot worse than it is.
See any stories on BEV's that set on fire versus ICE ones that do.

 

[MARKakaJIM]

Imagine there are some who churn through tyres with EVs because they never get over the novelty of the instant acceleration so just keep flooring it and chewing them up.

 

[Kenny]

Imagine there are some who churn through tyres with EVs because they never get over the novelty of the instant acceleration so just keep flooring it and chewing them up.

Very much so.

Same people will moan about how their range is shit.

 

[Trips]

Mrs Trips has been landed with this set of Marvel figures, anybody any ideas on where she can shift them onto?

 

[pagey]

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Mrs Trips has been landed with this set of Marvel figures, anybody any ideas on where she can shift them onto?

Sell us your collection – Kapow Toys

 

[The Bear]

Stick them on eBay as a job lot or search each one individually on there for completed listings, just to see if any of them are rare and worth something.

 

[Kenny]

If you fancy getting loads of "are these still available" messages followed by radio silence or people asking for 95% off the price you want because their child is ill I can heartily recommend the Facebook Market place.

That great advice aside, as per Bear. Look them up on Ebay and see what is listed or sold and get them on there.

 

[Keef]

This bloke would be interested

 

[Johnny75]

This bloke would be interestedView attachment 10965

Self portrait?

 

[Keef]

I’m probably as fat as he is, but he’s got more hair