I remember the GoodYear motorcycle tires. The tires, marking paint and rain spelled zero traction. You'd even have to avoid the lane change arrows. Hit one of those in the rain while stopping for a light would put up on the ground in about 2 seconds.
Thanks, Tom Hargrave 256-656-1924 www.kegkits.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Loren Faeth Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 10:02 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] Tire Longevity (was quality) Actually, the exploreer will end up in the junkyard, because of lack of traction long before the tires wear out. In the mid 70s, I'd roam the local junkyard, because they'd let you do that back then, searching for bits off fords or German cars that'd fit my Bronco or my 200D. An amazing number of newish Monte carlos in the junk, twisted around trees/poles, other vehicles, or just off the road into a ditch. They came out with those hard uniroyals that would run 100K miles, but loose traction if you spit on the road. About the same time, harleys came out with hard rubber goodyears. Very few sportsters went a year without being dumped. same thing, spit, and he'd go down. A guy I went to HS with did that and the stinkin Harley caught fire. He got burned very badly. I'll take sticky tires that last 30-40K. I have not yet been in the ditch because of tires that didn't grip. I always said that good (sticky) tires are the cheapest insurance there is. At 07:26 PM 1/6/2006, you wrote: >My brother, a trucker, has a 2WD explorer, short wheelbase 5-speed as >his family car. He has 114k miles on the original equipment tires. >They have about 45% of their tread left. He hates them now, and has >always hated them, saying they're like driving on hard plastic--very >little grip. He said he'd gladly replace tires every 50k miles for some >grab. He belies his words, though, as he's too cheap to throw these out >and get new ones, and will probably see the Explorer dissolve of rust >before he runs out of tread. > >I think the answer is that people have gotten much more attentive to >traction ratings, tires have gotten more performance-biased, and in >general, sticky tires wear faster. > >Dan >-- >Dan Weeks >82 VW Westfalia 1.6 TD conversion 186k >82 Mercedes 300SD, 275k > >_______________________________________ >http://www.striplin.net >For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For >used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net _______________________________________ http://www.striplin.net For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net
