Interesting Conversation With Young Female Police Officer

[sc0pe]

you need to understand how tyres are made before you can even fathom the question...

once your tyres are bald they are running into a different compound of rubber. not sticky at all.the bald part of the tyre is of a different compound to the rubber blocks on top of them.

hence the difference between street tyres and track tyres, it has alot more to it then simply tread design...

ps...have a search on the net and look for tyre construction or similar, will explain it a little more...

 

[holden#1]

good point scope.

however, on the humble tyres that us poor blokes drive on, there is not a lot of difference in rubber compound tread to case. (I'm talkin RE92s, that sort of tyre)

You can actually get more miles out of a retread (if it stays on) than a cleanskin as a retreading rubber compound can be made a lot more 'durable' than the tread compound on a cleanskin... when they manufacture tyres, they can't have too big a variation in rubber compound between tread compound and case compound... it gets very technical....

I have retreaded a couple of RE92s with a slick tread applied. (50mm thick) took a while to burn those ones out...

the company I work for uses a ring of rubber that get stretched over the tyre, as opposed to every other mob that has a join half way around, that tends to let go every so often...

 

[itchy pits]

a trucky told me they blow more tyres in the wet cause the friction from the water passing through the tread creates heat

 

[rattattack1313]

Personally, I think the Truck Companies should somehow brand their name all over their tyres....then the drivers might pick all the bits up, so they don't get busted for littering............. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: I hate having to swerve around bits of black **** poking up outa the road........

 

[holden#1]

itchy pits, thats an interesting one. I would think that the cooling effect of the water would more than compensate for friction that the water would cause... I'll look that one up.
From what I know of truckies, he might remember the wet blow outs more because of the inconveinience!!!

The name of the Truck company is written inside all the tyres we retread, bandag & others use a code in place of company name, a lot of truck companies brand their cases to stop theft etc.

 

[holden#1]

good idea but rat...

 

[markovr]

Bald tyres in the dry as long as there are not wire sticking through or they are worn unevenly dont handle any different to a near new tyre of the same size type and compound.
How can they?... they are basically using the cars weight to put force on a section of rubber at the bottom of the tyre to grip the bitumen ...the grooves do nothing but dissipate the air in front of them.
In the wet its a different story but thats not being desputed here.
And as far as her not agreeing with you even if you were right...... do you think a cop let alone a female one would agree with a motorist especially after they have just booked you...... not f#cking likely!
As far as the constable was concerned .....was she good looking ...sometimes that softens the blow

 

[holden#1]

yous all jump to conclusions... no I didn't get a defect for bald tyres.
I was in the *hit for something else (minor offence). we were just chatting afterwards...
I not stupid enough to say ' I only drive my bald tyres on dry days ' we were just talking about the technical aspect of tread depth in relation to grip levels on dry road...

 

[holden#1]

markovr,
have you seen the add for some new Bridgestone tyres with a silica compound where grip levels increase as they get bald?
they can make a tyre with a slightly different compound tread to case, but there normally a fair bit more expensive...

But as you say, for the most part rubber compound stays the same on a standard tyre...

 

[greenfoam]

Alot of guys use the old G Grid mk1 for track days once it's bald. Mine are half way gone so I'll keep them for later when I have my car on the drag strip, very soft compound for a street tire