• BakerBagel@midwest.social
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    10 months ago

    I’m not proud to admit it, but that is pretty close to how my tires were last week. I finally swapped them out, but even with my employee discount i was looking at almost $700 for a set of four. Tires are expensive, and you often dont realize how bad they have gotten until it is too late. Even finding used tires is difficult these days.

    That being said, going from exposed wires to fresh tires is amazing. I got in my car and immediately noticed i was sitting 3 inches higher, and it’s wonderful driving a car that actually grips the road instead of just sitting on top of them.

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          10 months ago

          Smaller tires cost less and xovers usually need 4 tires if there’s a certain thread difference. My mazda 3 cost 600 for 16" Michelin crossclimate2, which are considered good tires and also up there in price.

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          10 months ago

          You can have your alignment checked before getting the alignment. Often you won’t need one. Every time I’ve checked everything was perfectly fine still.

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        10 months ago

        I paid $700 2 years ago for tires for my SUV. SUV tires are a bit more expensive - but they’re still not cheap for sedans. I’m in the USA.

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        10 months ago

        Just did this too mine were $600 for my car. They weren’t even top grade tires or anything crazy. Live in u.s. Midwest

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        10 months ago

        Well he was suddenly 3 inches higher. So probably a big car/something with big tires. Almost Everything is more expensive on bigger cars.

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        10 months ago

        I’m in Ohio and drive a Subaru Crosstrek. 255/17/55 tires arent cheap. I could have gotten discount tires somewhere, but i work at a union tire plant and so i got the premium tires that i make for a living.

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        10 months ago

        My car has AWD and 35 profile ties. It’s at least 1200USD for anything that doesn’t suck because I have to change all four at the same time.

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        10 months ago

        Thinking more about it, what brand tires di you buy? Chinese firms have been flooding the market with cheap tires to undercut domestic union made tires in America and Europe.

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      10 months ago

      I get used tires for around $30-$40 per tire. Between $150 and $200 gets a full set with installation. They last me a few years from there, driving around 8,000 miles per year. They don’t match, but I don’t care.

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    10 months ago

    They’re slicks, just like race cars use! That must mean they’re super grippy, right?

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      10 months ago

      Once that layer is worn down, the extra grip metal braid will be exposed, and the car will have super traction.

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      10 months ago

      Trains have metal wheels and are efficient. You can also be efficient by having metal tires on your car. You’re welcome, FuckCars.

  • TheUnicornsForever@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    For all those wandering if these are slick (racing) tires, it doesn’t look like it. You can clearly see the grooves worn out (bottom left) and the threads through the rubber on the left, indicating extremely worn out tires. I’m curious though as to how anyone would get their tires in this shape before a safety inspection would have made it mandatory to change them.

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      10 months ago

      Many states (and presumably many countries) done have safety inspections. In the Midwest there are tons of old vehicles that would never pass an inspection out on the road

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        Is that because regulations are for commies, or there’s some Big Road Traffic Accident lobby profiting off people dying in shitboxes? What possible reason is there to allow such an obvious death trap on the road?

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          There’s a combination of anti-regulation sentiments and poverty. Rural towns in particular have a lot of old ass beaters driving around and people don’t have the income to fix or replace those vehicles. But yeah, that’s also where you get a lot of the “gub’ment can take it from my cold dead hands” types of attitudes, even (especially?) when it’s for the safety and well-being of people. Hell people fought restaurant smoking laws up until the early 2010’s, and some states still have no helmet law for motorcycles.

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        10 months ago

        Yep. I’m in Indiana. We don’t do vehicle inspections here. People drive scary shitboxes.

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              10 months ago

              Oh me too. My wife and I have talked about moving away again for years, but we keep having to push those plans back for one reason or another (work, COVID, etc.)

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                My wife has an amazing job that is basically her dream job. We also have our two elderly mothers in a nearby part of the state. And then there’s housing prices. Even if we sold our house, we couldn’t afford to buy one somewhere else. We’re not leaving any time soon.

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    10 months ago

    I had a motorcycle shop tell me they were saving my tires because they’d never seen anything so overcooked. What can I say, I could barely afford the bike. It isn’t running now because I can’t afford to fix it. This economy is fucking terrible.

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    Isn’t this pretty much optimal on dry surfaces? The patterns in the tires are for draining away water, and nothing else. I mean, look at F1 tires for dry roads.

    But the tiniest splash of water will send you on a rotational journy into what’s straight ahead.

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      10 months ago

      On a dry surface these have more grip but the belts are exposed and any debris wouldn’t bit be absorbed by the tread so I’m guessing not optimal for dry surface but very dangerous.

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    10 months ago

    I didn’t know a tire could be so smooth it casts a reflection. This must the maximum smoothnes possible.

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    10 months ago

    Combine with brakes worn down to the calipers on rotors directly and you’re facing the final boss on hard mode for the prize of life

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    10 months ago

    Does police or yearly car inspection prior to registration not check for these? Here we need to have winter set and summer set of tires, plus that all gets checked regularly and you can’t register your car if it doesn’t pass technical exam.

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      Most everywhere here in the States has stopped doing any form of yearly vehicle examination, and the police in most places won’t pull you over for anything relating to vehicle issues unless it’s either seriously egregious or they have nothing better to do (sometimes not even then, like my local PD, who has been doing effectively nothing for the past 3 years ever since a police reform law was talked about.)

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        Most everywhere here in the States has stopped doing any form of yearly vehicle examination

        Is this true? We have annual inspections in Pennsylvania.

        • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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          It is. Only 15 states have a periodic inspection.

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_inspection_in_the_United_States

          Kentucky is laughable. It’s literally only “inspected” if you bought the car from out of state, and the inspection was $15, and a sheriff comes out tells you to step on the brakes and turn your headlights and emergency lights on. You need 1 working headlight, any one working tail light, (yes you’ll pass with just that tiny one in the center of your rear window,) and any two indicator lights to pass. The guy that did mine kicked my tires and said, “yep, it’s a car.”

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            For $15? I’d expect a little dance or something as well, that doesn’t seem like a good value for your money.

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            10 months ago

            Yeah but who is a poorly maintained car gonna kill besides its occupants in a state like KY. Hell even emissions in a state that sparse. Juice ain’t worth the squeeze.

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          Here in Maryland, my car, that I bought new in 1999, has technically never needed a safety inspection. Emissions every two years, but no safety. Isn’t that a fun thought? If I were to sell it, it would need to be inspected then (and it’s a pretty thorough inspection), but otherwise…nah.

          I keep it in better condition and would never let the tires get to this point. A few months ago, I replaced a set of tires because they had aged out, and even that was longer than I usually like to keep them. But not everyone has the money or inclination (or insanity) to keep a car that old in good condition.

          But, statistically, there’s little evidence that safety inspections reduce crashes which kind of makes you wonder whether it’s really worth it. It’s one of those things that seems logical, but the statistics may not bear that out. At most, it’s only a small improvement, not a drastic difference.

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          We have emission checks for newly titled cars (purchase/transfer) in Georgia and Kansas. Nothing else.

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        Oh wow. I could understand them not caring if only your own life was at stake, but it’s not. Here we had people try to go around the inspection process, but now all the places that do these inspections (privately owned by the way) have to have live camera feeds of the vehicle from different angles and submit photos and graphs of the vehicle status before being able to issue a sticker.

        And here I am complaining about someone’s light not being tuned properly while people drive with this kind of tires.

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          Probably living paycheck to paycheck or on the tail end of a delivery driver career as you find out that car maintenance is not free.

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            Not an excuse if other people can lose lives. There are used tires, cheaper tires, public transport, car pooling, etc.

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              One person’s unacceptable excuse is another’s meager existence. I’m not saying it’s right, just calling out how it gets there.

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    This is just driving on hard mode.

    /s no don’t do this, this is so dangerous.