Thread: Getting the most out of your tyres !

Great to hear you offered the guy a hand and some advice, that looks seriously dangerous!
I've found many foreigners from that part of the world to be out of touch with car ownership and maintenance. My neighbour had only ever owned a scooter, in his home country of India and I watched him struggle to lift his bonnet for a few minutes before I went out and showed him how to pull the cable in the cabin.
It was his first car as he had just gotten a license in Australia. His friend had told him to check the oil, but he wasn't sure where to look for that either.

I ended up showing him around the engine bay and checking it out for him which earned me some homemade Indian deserts the next day from his wife.

Luckily for him, the HWP didn't pick him up but you did.

Do they look at anything except speed?

Those tyres have generally been running under inflated - he needs to put a few more psi (or whatever the modern equivalent is) in his tyres in future.

Originally Posted by DeanoH

and claimed he had paid for 4 new tyres about 50K km ago

Originally Posted by DeanoH

I noted that they were all different brands but the same size.

I suspect they weren't or he got s/h ones at a much cheaper price.
And they think my Camry is unroadworthy because it has a few battle scars. Truth is it's the nice looking Camrys that don't do many km that are unroadworthy. My Camry is serviced eight or nine times a year and gets new tyres about every ten or eleven months.

Changing the lights to LEDs: It's a govt. subsidy thing. As they change to lights that use less energy, it reduces the load on the system.
A bit like the pink batt thing.

That's a lot of services and tyres, Mick. Are you driving a taxi?

I went for a motorcycle ride with a group one day, one guy went back home half way through our day long ride because the steel belts were showing.

There are many vehicle owners that do not have a clue about their vehicles and or their maintenance requirements.
Walk through any shopping mall car park and have a look at the front wheels of the vehicles parked and you will be surprised at the number of vehicles with scrubbed out front tyres.

Originally Posted by p38arover

That's a lot of services and tyres, Mick. Are you driving a taxi?

No. Just a daily drive. I do a fair few kilometres.