The China-Bomb debate Put to rest
Almost every week or more a thread appears with someone with a tire question. And just as predictably the China Bomb experts come out and start decrying all Chinese made tires. Then usually they re...
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myredracer wrote:I often see "curbing" listed as a primary reason that ST tires fail..
You will never, ever know how often or by how much someone's ST tires ran over 65 mph, or how often they were under-inflated, or how often they hit potholes or speed bumps at speed, how often they turned 90 degree corners on pavement, or how often they ran on road shoulders, etc. How close were they to their max. load capacity rating? Internal damage from heat due to under-inflation and/or excess speed is cumulative and it can be many miles later that you have a failure and thus you can't relate the failure to what you recently did. If you bought a used TT, you can't possibly know how the tires were treated.
If you live on the west coast, you will never know how much the delivery guy drove over 65 mph or how many potholes or big cracks in concrete slab highways he hit. Your brand new TT can have over 2K miles on used tires in unknown condition. We followed a delivery guy last year in Ca. and saw how he treated the TT tires.
I find this laugable. I have an old Blazer that I drive to work. When leaving it is easier/faster for me to drive over the parking curb than to back out and go around to the exit.
Since I am ALWAYS in a hurry to leave work. That Blazer has had it's LT tires curbed DAILY for over 20 years. No tire failures either.
Yet we are told that curbing an ST tire once will cause a failure!! JUNK.
