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Post subject: Are Your Tires Safe?
 Posted: Aug 10, 2008 - 10:18 PM
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Location: Apple Valley, CA.
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Perhaps you have seen this video before if not please take time to view it...it could safe your life. I was not aware of this.
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4826897 |
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Posted: Aug 10, 2008 - 11:54 PM
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Thanks, just checked the #numbers# on my tires
and they were brand spanking new when I bought them.
So, now I'll have a flat tomorrow. Thanks alot krlina  |
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Posted: Aug 11, 2008 - 03:10 AM
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| Gornman wrote: | Thanks, just checked the #numbers# on my tires
and they were brand spanking new when I bought them.
So, now I'll have a flat tomorrow. Thanks alot krlina |
Oh Oh...seriously, hope your tires when bought 'new' were not really tired and grown 'old' from sitting on a shelf for several years. My Grandaughter recently had a tire go flat on the freeway here in SoCal going about 65-70 mph...a car behind her tried to tell her her tire was 'smoking' ...thank God she realized to pull over on the right...whatever the cause it's super important to check your tires, tread, air and all. Grandma speaking here!!! |
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Posted: Aug 11, 2008 - 03:43 AM
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Location: New Jersey USA
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I can't even find the numbers on the motorcycle tires on the new bike I just bought. It's dark in the garage right now, and even with a flash light I can't make the numbers out. I will check it out in the morning.
The thought that I've been letting Bridget tool around the property on unsafe tires makes me sick. If they are old, they will be replaced.
That was a great piece, glad that you alerted us. I had no idea.
Thanks for that. |
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Posted: Aug 11, 2008 - 03:52 AM
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It is very traumatic to get a flat on the freeway. This happened to me on I-5 at night. A good samaritan came along and helped me in my distressed state to change the tire. Then, a Highway Patrol officer came along and gave me a jump start.
I have a love/hate relationship with good ol' I-5.
From the air, the freeway sort of looks like a serpent. President Eisenhower gets a lot of credit for reproducing the German autobahn here in the States. He felt that we needed a superhighway to transport troops and equipment quickly. God bless him.
I have to navigate this nightmare M-F. It's like the Indianapolis Speedway. Everybody here in Seattle goes approximately 70 mph even though that is technically illegegal.
Please God, let me afford a Volvo (they say they are safer) or let me just phone it in (telecommute) instead. |
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Posted: Aug 17, 2008 - 04:21 AM
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| Popping this one up again...Have you checked yours lately? |
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Posted: Aug 17, 2008 - 06:42 AM
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I checked my husband's tires on his vehicle when we were up in Canada. He is safe.
Phew!
I did appreciate your PSA krlina. |
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Posted: Aug 17, 2008 - 07:44 PM
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Location: Lakeland Florida
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VERY interesting.
I've had quite a few tires blow on me (we used to buy our tires at Wal-Mart; no longer!) I wonder how many of these were "old new tires". I now deal with another company- Wal-Mart started demanding that we pay for additional services if we were to have our tires rotated. We'd paid for lifetime rotation, but when a tire blew, they demanded I purchase "lifetime rotation" again or they wouldn't rotate the tires the way I wanted.
It is scary to have one blow at highway speeds. The scariest I've experienced was when we had a tire literally explode on the way to a conference. The hubcap actually passed us and went flying down the road! It sounded like a bomb going off- and luckily I was able to get the car on the side of the road. The tires were supposedly fairly new- but I also know the car hadn't been driven in some time (and it's a 73 Tbird- VERY heavy!!!)
Now, I know to check the code before I buy a tire- and if it's more than a couple of years old, I will refuse it. |
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