> The accident was blamed on the failure of his old tires.
>Please, everyone, if you have old, original tires that you want to use for
>show purposes, only use them for that purpose. Keep another set of tires
>and wheels with modern tires for running at highway speeds or normal
>driving. Me - I run on 2 year old 205/70x15s and keep an old tube-type
>Michelin redline as my spare.
>
>Rex Townsend
I'd like to second this one.
Last year we set out across France on two new tyres, one almost new
tyre & one 'old' tyre, which nonetheless had plenty of tread & no
sign of damage. We reached the centre of France by Autoroute without
incident, however the return journey began with a wooden palette
lifting off a trailer I was following, and crashing into the road in
front of me. The hard steering needed to avoid this must have
weakened the old tyre: just minutes after joining the autoroute it
burst, & the car ended up a write off.
A new body & chassis later & its back on the road, but I won't be
caught on old tyres again....
--
William Davies
1975 TR6 PI
CR6157-O
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