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xzzy posted:Well that's why they have "incidents per X number of people" statistics. In terms of road deaths I think China is actually right in the middle of the pack worldwide. Do they count incidents versus the total population? Because I'd bet a whole hell a lot of people don't drive cars in China, which would lower the average. And that's why I generally see incidents per mile driven.
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Phone posted:If you have 15" wheels all tires are under $200. Yup, for all 5 tires you can actually find that small. When I replaced the tires on my e30 I ended up having to just pick the least lovely ones they had.
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Mar 13, 2014 00:54
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Phone posted:If you have 15" wheels all tires are under $200.
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Mar 13, 2014 01:06
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Phone posted:If you have 15" wheels all tires are under $200. Ugh, I wish. I just got done replacing a set of 255/45/19s...for $300 each and that wasn't even high end. The "cheap" rear end tires in that size are $190 each. That was pretty painful.
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Mar 13, 2014 01:58
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Negromancer posted:Yup, for all 5 tires you can actually find that small. When I replaced the tires on my e30 I ended up having to just pick the least lovely ones they had. Dunlop Z2: 205/50R15 BFG Rival: 205/50R15 or 225/45R15 Hankook R-S3: 225/45R15 Toyo "Pixie Dust" R1R: 195/50R15 Those are just street tires.
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Mar 13, 2014 02:18
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Git Mah Belt Son posted:Ugh, I wish. I just got done replacing a set of 255/45/19s...for $300 each and that wasn't even high end. The "cheap" rear end tires in that size are $190 each. That was pretty painful. The middle of the road tires for my motorcycle come to ~$500 for two, and last about 7k miles if you don't mind spending the last few rides having everyone tell you "OH MY GOD REPLACE THOSE TODAY, WHAT ARE YOU, RETARDED?!"
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Mar 13, 2014 02:35
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Phone posted:Dunlop Z2: 205/50R15 E30s use weird sizes to get the right size diameter. Not many in 195/65/14. I run 205/50/15 on my E30 but its annoying having it geared a little shorter. 16s make things a lot easier and the right diameter of 205/50/16.
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Mine are 14:  On a full-sized mid-60's land barge  OEM tires: 215/75-14 (G78/14) Prefer: 225/85-14 (unicorn-chat starts here) I suspect I am running on crap tires because from the moment they were installed 2-years (and less than 2000-miles) ago, the car shakes at certain speeds and I have gone through EVERY DAMNED THING you can do to eliminate it. And why yes, they were the cheapest tires I could find on a shelf locally. I may have to mail-order the nearest "proper" sized tires from Coker, which run about $200 apiece plus shipping, then find a tire shop willing to mount & balance them. Ugh.
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Mar 13, 2014 04:49
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Would it be difficult to source a set of 15s that look decent and fit? I imagine it'll be a lot easier to find comparable-sized tires, though you would lose a little bit of sidewall.
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Mar 13, 2014 04:52
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Even for stock NA Miata 14" sizes it's impossible to find a tire that's worth half a poo poo. A few cars I've looked at have heinously expensive Continentals on them because the owners didn't want to swap wheels.
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Mar 13, 2014 04:53
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Terrible tire poo poo: Saw some loving doofus in a 98 Civic with the SOHC economy VTEC engine that has maybe a fart-can and hot air intake, running loving Nitto DOT slicks. In the winter. A week after we got 9 inches of snow.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Even for stock NA Miata 14" sizes it's impossible to find a tire that's worth half a poo poo. A few cars I've looked at have heinously expensive Continentals on them because the owners didn't want to swap wheels. This is one of the big selling points nissan is touting for the new micra, it comes with 15 or 16 inch wheels, wheras the mitsubishi mirage runs 14s. If the mirage's handling was described as dangerous on the factory rubber, imagine what it's going to be when it's car hating cheapskate owner has to put a new set of tires on it.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Even for stock NA Miata 14" sizes it's impossible to find a tire that's worth half a poo poo. A few cars I've looked at have heinously expensive Continentals on them because the owners didn't want to swap wheels. I actually have a friend from HS/college who works for Continental corporate  He gets a crazy discount on up to 8 sets a year (IIRC). Guess what I end up with whenever I need tires these days...Before he landed that gig though, I needed 14" tires for my Prelude, and all I could find were Chinese ditchfinders I ended up scoring a set of 16" wheels off CL with a set of Toyos that still had decent tread remaining instead. Too bad the tires are old as gently caress and turned into dryrotted hockey pucks way before I got them. One of them cracked so bad it deflated just sitting in the driveway.
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Terrible Robot posted:Terrible tire poo poo: Saw some loving doofus in a 98 Civic with the SOHC economy VTEC engine that has maybe a fart-can and hot air intake, running loving Nitto DOT slicks. In the winter. A week after we got 9 inches of snow. Goodyear Eagle F1s were fun in the snow on my Mazdaspeed Protege. You just had to be reaaaaallly gentle. I ran Nitto slicks for a month one summer when I punctured one of my street tires and just swapped my track tires on. They got a little dicey in heavy rain.
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Mar 13, 2014 05:06
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I drove in the snow with my hankook v12s twice and found the car to be nearly undriveable. That reminds me that I need new summer tires this year.
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Mar 13, 2014 05:26
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Fucknag posted:Would it be difficult to source a set of 15s that look decent and fit? I imagine it'll be a lot easier to find comparable-sized tires, though you would lose a little bit of sidewall. I'd also lose these sweet-rear end factory wheel covers  But yes, I have considered getting a set of Cragars (or the like) in 15" with new tires. About $1800 plus shipping. 'Spensive way to find out if my current tires (also pictured there) are indeed the crap that I suspect that they are.
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Mar 13, 2014 05:31
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Terrible Robot posted:Terrible tire poo poo: Saw some loving doofus in a 98 Civic with the SOHC economy VTEC engine that has maybe a fart-can and hot air intake, running loving Nitto DOT slicks. In the winter. A week after we got 9 inches of snow. Dudes just trying to get his hoon on bro.
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Mar 13, 2014 05:32
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I did a few Long Island winters on Kumho Ecsta Supras in my BMW 840ci. There were a few hairy moments (example: nearly sliding off an expressway), and a few embarrassing moments (example: inability to get out of a level parking space at work with 1/4" of slush on the ground) until I wised up and finally got something better suited to winter.
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Mar 13, 2014 05:37
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Facebook versions of car forums. Seem to be universally terrible. Just scored a double!  Some of these guys won't even do us the honor of using complete sentences.. drukqs fucked around with this message at 06:55 on Mar 13, 2014 |
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Mar 13, 2014 06:53
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The tires my car came with are made by Forceum. Before I looked them up, I didn't know there were tire plants in Indonesia
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Mar 13, 2014 08:33
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Indonesia and its neighbours are some of the biggest producers of rubber in the world, it would sort of stand to reason. The Japanese launched WW2 partially in an attempt to get at all that sweet sweet rubber.
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Mar 13, 2014 09:13
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Every day at work I upsell & fit respected tyre brands like -Triangle -Goodride -Ling-Long -Supercat  -Nexen -Kingstar Needless to say, our tyre machine hates life itself.
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Mar 13, 2014 09:30
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Slavvy posted:Every day at work I upsell & fit respected tyre brands like Have their uses. The compound is slightly harder than granite, making them a decent choice for trailer tyres.
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Mar 13, 2014 10:40
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A friend of mine was using Nexen for boat bumpers. Cracked the goddamn dock.
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Mar 13, 2014 12:16
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IPCRESS posted:Have their uses. I had a set of Nexens on my Cherokee Sport. They were actually pretty good tires. I thought they compared favorably to the Pirelli P Zeros I put on my Saturn before that.
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Mar 13, 2014 14:34
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I paid like £320 including fitting for a set of Falken ZE914s, 205/55/16 front, 225/50/16 rear. Really nice tire. I hated my old car so I just got junkyard preused whenever I needed them. All 4 tires were of different makes. 
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Mar 13, 2014 14:38
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The first rear tyre change on my car will be coming up soon and my wallet is not looking forward to it, 225/35/19 front and 255/30/19 rear. About £250 per rear
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Falken posted:I paid like £320 including fitting for a set of Falken ZE914s, 205/55/16 front, 225/50/16 rear. Really nice tire. That's a good price but Falken's aren't really an off-brand, so I'd hope they are decent. All the random tire manufacturers amaze me. Is there anywhere that lists which "off-brand" tires are actually just rebranded name-brand tires? I know some of the shops like Big-O sell some stuff as their store brand that are really just Michelin or whatever (and aren't a whole lot cheaper, but do have a nice warranty). And one of my pet peeves is seeing someone driving 60+ on the highway on a temporary spare. Sometimes I'll see them a few days later still driving on it.
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subx posted:That's a good price but Falken's aren't really an off-brand, so I'd hope they are decent. On the drive axle no less.
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subx posted:And one of my pet peeves is seeing someone driving 60+ on the highway on a temporary spare. Sometimes I'll see them a few days later still driving on it. I've been "raced" in a civic who had a spare on their driver's side front axle. It went about as well as you'd expected. I think I even heard it screech as he floored it.  I should start taking photos of cars around my neighborhood, there's a lot of terrible car stuff to be found.
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Tha Chodesweller posted:I've been "raced" in a civic who had a spare on their driver's side front axle. It went about as well as you'd expected. I think I even heard it screech as he floored it. One of us...one of us...
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Guinness posted:I was in western & southern China recently and the driving there was bizarre. Many of the highways are brand new, so the pavement, lane markings, and signage is all in great shape and yet nobody gives a gently caress about any of that. Even calling them "suggestions" would be generous. People just drive wherever the hell they want, park wherever they want, drive with all their lights off at night, etc. 4 lane highways are only 2 lanes because people drive for miles on top of the lane dividers... or 2 lane highways are 4 lanes because why the hell not. Multiple times I saw people driving in reverse on the highway because they missed their exit... or because they just didn't give a gently caress. But the nice thing about China's development and future planning in regards to their road infrastructure is that when you're in a 'smaller' city (under 1 million) the roads are deserted. The latest Top Gear episode touched on this a bit, it wasn't much of an exaggeration. Here's Huayin, a city of about 1/4 million, that I visited in 2012. You can really see all the new roads and what is about to be built there soon. With how big the roads are there, it felt like a ghost town. https://www.google.ca/maps/@34.581666,110.0923941,468m/data=!3m1!1e3 Beijing, however, is a clusterfuck like nothing else
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neckbeard posted:But the nice thing about China's development and future planning in regards to their road infrastructure is that when you're in a 'smaller' city (under 1 million) the roads are deserted. The latest Top Gear episode touched on this a bit, it wasn't much of an exaggeration. That episode was in Burma though. I'm just an ignorant American, but isn't that 'not China'?
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The GF's Camry that she bought from a dealership with *New Tires!* came with Nexens. I drove them in a couple inches of snow. They work.
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Neptr posted:The GF's Camry that she bought from a dealership with *New Tires!* came with Nexens. I drove them in a couple inches of snow. They work. not to continue this derail, but nexen is korean, like hankook and kumho.
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I run Coopers on my cars because they're a great balance of affordability, durability, and grip, and they make a great all-season tire. Well, that and the G1 transformers with rubber tires all ran Cooper Cobras, which is how I learned about the brand as a child. I run Dunlops on my bikes and they're pretty okay.
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drukqs posted:Facebook versions of car forums. Seem to be universally terrible. A public flogging for anyone who uses that passive aggressive "let me google that for you" poo poo. It takes less effort to just say 'google it' if giving advice is truly so far beneath your attention. Granted, if you're looking for useful information of any kind on Facebook, you may be in the wrong place. redgubbinz fucked around with this message at 17:04 on Mar 13, 2014 |
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I haven't been in enough near misses to justify this, and recording stupidity, while fun, is not worth $50 to this poor college student. Then again, I paid for an account to an internet forum to talk about cars, games and technology, so what the hell.
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Had this terrible issue with my taillights, trunk loosening when braking, etc. found this: Previous owner decided to replace trunk harness while doing a sick rear fog mod. See those twisted wires? Power and grounds for everything in the decklid. All of them were literally twisted together and taped. Good job, guy.
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Since we're on the subject of tires: anyone use continental extreme contacts for winter? I put them on cars all day at work but haven't tried them in the snow.
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