How can some people be so ignorant

[ISAslot]

My car's tires are 12 yrs old. :Q

 

[helpme]

The inside edge of my SRT-4 street tires are worn out due to my camber settings. I don't drive it on the street much, except to get to the track... more money for track tires

I really should replace them with some 50$ cheapies just in case it's raining... At least 5/6 of each tire has at least 2/32s of tread.

 

[GZDynastar]

Up in Colorado (especially right now since we've received over 25 feet of snow) bald tires is a huge no-no. But, to get good tires, you have to throw dime into your ride. Studs are popular and so are the new green diamond (or whatever they're called, they have particulates in the rubber for better traction) but they will cost ya.

I hate buying tires for my jeep =(

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: DLeRium
My friend said his tires were messed up and I checked it out. I out to feel the tread and it was FLAT. COMPLETELY FLAT. NO TREADS WHATSOEVER. How can you be so idiotic. Do people not take their cars to maintenance? Do people not rotate/balance tires? What the hell? And I went to Tahoe last weekend with him (I got my own ride up there), and he drove there. I would never ride in his car. Are people so idiotic? I know people who crashed there 2 weeks ago even while driving carefully, and now my friend wants to go again this week. There's without a doubt there will be a storm this weekend. I don't get what people are thinking. Good luck with that car.

"Bald" is the word you're looking for. "Flat" means that it doesn't have any air in it.

Rotating tires is good, but it's not *that* essential. Checking your tire pressure and tread depth is much more vital. After all, when it comes right down to it you can just keep changing out the tires that are wearing more quickly as they get below the ~4/32" mark...

 

[pray4mojo]

Originally posted by: ISAslot
My car's tires are 12 yrs old. :Q

have you driven the car these past 12 years?

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Imp
A car to lots of people (including me) is just a cage that takes you places and are essentially forced to know how to use. Even basic maintenance requires some interest or caring. On that note, I know someone who's been driving for more than 5 years and doesn't know what the N on the gear shift is. That and what the x1000 RPM dial is.

Agreed. It's a container to move another container (your body) which holds your mind, which, at least in the kinds of jobs I hope to hold one day, will be the necessary component.
Telecommuting in the future: transmit your mind to a blank android at work, or else to a mainframe system of various minds. The ultimate teamwork. And then we will be Borg.
Menial labor will be done by robots. The real work - the creative thinking - will still be done by the successors of humanity, in whatever form they may take. I'm hoping for android bodies of some sort.

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: Imp
A car to lots of people (including me) is just a cage that takes you places and are essentially forced to know how to use. Even basic maintenance requires some interest or caring. On that note, I know someone who's been driving for more than 5 years and doesn't know what the N on the gear shift is. That and what the x1000 RPM dial is.

N = not going anywhere when selected. (unless on a hill) :laugh:

 

[ISAslot]

Originally posted by: pray4mojo

Originally posted by: ISAslot
My car's tires are 12 yrs old. :Q

have you driven the car these past 12 years?

Yeah. About once a week.

 

[MegaVovaN]

Heh, I pump my mom's tires with a bicycle pump....
My muscles get pumped more than tires!

 

[Parasitic]

Originally posted by: MegaVovaN
Heh, I pump my mom's tires with a bicycle pump....
My muscles get pumped more than tires!

He's talking about treads.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

He got back. Bald tires FTL.

3 spinouts

No one got hurt luckily.

His roommate even bailed on him fearing death.

 

[Glavinsolo]

You know I have one better..

The people who think the PSI on the tire is what they should fill it up to. Instead of the door panel sticker.

 

[0roo0roo]

people treat cars like appliances now that they are more reliable i guess.
they just figure they should work without actually learning about cars at all let alone rtfm

 

[lyssword]

not only the problem with traction, the tire might actually tear apart/blow apart if it starts getting to the steel reinforcement

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
We really could use an annual state safety inspection because clearly people cannot do this on their own...

I've been saying this for as long as I've known you guys didn't have one. How can the common person be trusted...

What sane reason is there for not requiring it, honestly?

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
We really could use an annual state safety inspection because clearly people cannot do this on their own...

I've been saying this for as long as I've known you guys didn't have one. How can the common person be trusted...

What sane reason is there for not requiring it, honestly?

Here in Kahleeforneeya, I actually wish we had annual safety inspections. I see way too many junkers on the road that probably shouldn't be. Worn tires are only one of the many things that should take a vehicle off the roadways.

When we lived in Jew-Tah, we got jacked up on a safety inspection. The guy tried to claim worn brakes and shocks, and wanted several hundred $$ to correct them...until I provided the receipts for the parts that had been installed less than a month earlier in preparation for the inspection...he quickly backed down and signed off on the inspection.

For clarification, my wife took the car into the shop...I think he thought he had an easy mark...