Originally Posted by ChryCoGuy
Originally Posted by 360view
Notice the articles popping up about
rubber tire dust + blacktop dust
being a “terrible pollutant” ?




I've heard the anti-car bicycle folks using brake dust pollution as yet another reason that cars should be outlawed.

On the tire shop topic, a few years back I gave my neighbor some snow tires I had no use for. The tires were 215/55R16 and the OEM tire size for his car was 205/55R16, but when you measured the circumference of both tires they were almost exactly the same. Width was very close as well.

The first tire shop he went to refused to mount the tires for him because the size on the sidewall was different than the OEM size for the car. Next shop he went to mounted and balanced them without an issue. Go figure. They fit and worked perfectly on the car, and he got a few winters out of them.

Man, I miss the days when people weren't so crazy. Sure was a better time to live in.



That had to have been just after the Firestone and Ford Explorer rollover issues. Tire Rack wouldn't sell you different size tires, or one tire if it wasn't the same size as OEM. You had to jump through a bunch of hoops and have proof of the vehicle tires were going on, etc., Don't think it is as bad as it was back then but big issues and hoop jumping as Firestone and Ford were pointing the finger at each other. And so came the Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems (TPMS) for every new vehicle as low tire pressures were deemed part of the reason for the rollovers.