Thread: Come on ... own up

I have a mate like this, owns two farms outright worth quite a few million. He is proud of the fact that he drives a 15 year old rusty Mitsubishi that he bought a couple of years ago for $1500 and brags that he can buy new tyres for around $50 each.

He has two young kids that are usually in the car along with his lovely wife. He gets cranky when I ask him if his kids and wife's lives are worth more then $60.

Hopefully he won't have to find that out because of crashing due to rubbish no name tyres on a worn out old rusty car.

cheers,
Terry

My kids drive near new diesel BMW's. Not because of name, but because I want them in the best I can afford (which I can't really). The investment we have in them pales in comparison with price of a car. I remember Peter Wherret (and his dress) saying that the kids should drive the Mercedes, and parents the old Holden. Which I tend to agree with .

Regardless of your financial position, good tyres are something that you just have to have. Not only are you endandering the lives of you & your family, but other motorists too.

If you can't afford decent tyres, then sacrifice something else to pay for them and not peoples lives.

Cheers, Craig

I don't know how they don't get scarred into changing them. Having the D4 get skittish on me during a rather heavy down poor at 80kph was enough for me to get the tyres changed. They weren't even down to the indicators. If I was on "racing slicks" like these other schmucks, I'm sure I would have ended up bush bashing.