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Tyres Getting Old
Yesterday I called into a tyre place because I thought I had a puncture and wanted to ask about my front tyres as they were looking a bit past it. When the car was on the ramp, the guy called me to have a look at the back ones. There was a fine line down between the tread. To me, it looked like it was where the tread meets the tyre. It wasn`t a crack as such but there was definitely a line there. He said that I needed new tyres because they were coming to the end of their life and the oil in the rubber wears away with time. The car is a 2011 car which I had as a pre-reg (can`t remember which time of year I bought it) so the tyres a indeed a few years old. Was he stringing me along?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I work with vans that do a lot of miles and are on the road for up to 16 hours per day (returning to depot, not the same driver for 16 hours), if I have the smallest doubt about the condition of a tyre, I'd get it changed.
How many miles have you done in your car? The AA have some good expectations
http:// www.the aa.com/ motorin g_advic e/safet y/tyre- life-an d-age.h tml
How many miles have you done in your car? The AA have some good expectations
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This is worth reading.
http:// www.ros pa.com/ road-sa fety/ad vice/ve hicles/ tyre-sa fety-te chnolog y/infor mation/
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