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So every day when I’m walking on the school run I see bald tyres on cars parked up
Today’s count was 4 cars, only reason I could see they were bald was because they were parked with the wheels not straight
I wasn’t purposely looking for them at first but now it’s a game to see how many I can spot
Worst one today had a completely bald front tyre, no tread showing and a baby seat in the back!
Does make me wonder how many cars are on the road with illegal tyres if I can spot 4 in a 10 minute walk!
It's possible that they don't know, I'd leave a note.
For repeat offenders, police non-emergency on 101 perhaps?
Yes agree with Cougar, Post It note under the wipers with "Check your tyres please"
Or if you are friendly with a local tyre place one of their cards as well.
Yes agree with Cougar, Post It note under the wipers with "Check your tyres please"
Or if you are friendly with a local tyre place one of their cards as well.
Snitches may well get stitches, but so do people who understeer into lampposts or schoolchildren.
(also, username checks out😁)
I'd say this was a case of mind your own business.
This came off a working Royal Mail van - they just didn’t give a toss about the roadworthiness or whether it was
Repeat post.
I'd say this was a case of mind your own business.
And when it becomes your business when they said into your car or a family member?
I notice the same thing. I walk to and from work in Sheffield so I pass hundreds if not thousands of parked cars every day.
I spot absolutely loads of bald edges and sometimes a bit of visible cord.
Judging by the driving standards around here I'd bet not one of the drivers would give a shit.
I see a lot of it also, and on some premium cars too, not sh1t boxes.
I'd say this was a case of mind your own business.
And when it becomes your business when they said into your car or a family member?
We're concerned about what might happen to your car?
£180 fine, 6 penalty points and 4 dead cyclists
I'd say this was a case of mind your own business.
And when it becomes your business when they said into your car or a family member?
We're concerned about what might happen to your car?
Directly from quoted article;
'Diane Williams, prosecuting, told the court that a police investigation found that the defective tyres - the front pair and rear nearside - were not to blame for the accident. "Tyre tread is there to displace liquid debris from the road to give a better grip. The examination has found there was no liquid there - it was black ice," she said.'
It's not a justifiable action to be running around on bald tyres, I fully agree.
I am 100% certain the poor standard of driving plays much more into road deaths than some borderline legal tyres though.
Also thousands of people are running cheap Chinese ditch finder tyres, when a premium tyre would offer more grip and safety - therefore reducing the risk of 'sliding into someone's family member'
I don't agree carrying out safety checks on strangers cars is a necessary action, but each to one's own desires! Maybe check the discs and pads on your next walk and let the owner know about the wear on them also 😉
I'd say this was a case of mind your own business.
And when it becomes your business when they said into your car or a family member?
We're concerned about what might happen to your car?
Directly from quoted article;
'Diane Williams, prosecuting, told the court that a police investigation found that the defective tyres - the front pair and rear nearside - were not to blame for the accident. "Tyre tread is there to displace liquid debris from the road to give a better grip. The examination has found there was no liquid there - it was black ice," she said.'
It's not a justifiable action to be running around on bald tyres, I fully agree.
I am 100% certain the poor standard of driving plays much more into road deaths than some borderline legal tyres though.
Also thousands of people are running cheap Chinese ditch finder tyres, when a premium tyre would offer more grip and safety - therefore reducing the risk of 'sliding into someone's family member'
I don't agree carrying out safety checks on strangers cars is a necessary action, but each to one's own desires! Maybe check the discs and pads on your next walk and let the owner know about the wear on them also 😉
If they’re genuinely not roadworthy they shouldn’t be driven on. Puncture them for the public good.
Can you hammer sausages into tyres?
I'm a bit of a tyre geek so seemingly have an inbuilt radar for spotting defective tyres in car parks, even spot them while in traffic too. It always astounds me how it seems to be the more premium cars that have cheap and knackered tyres on them, must be down to maxxing out the monthlies or something.
It's rare I will say anything though but if I see kids in the car or the owner looks approachable I will say something.
Yep, this gets my goat too. It is illegal, and worth points on the license per tyre, so worth pointing it out to the old bill if there were any around to point it out to. It's illegal because it puts other road users at risk, so it is everybody else's business.
The other fun game to play is to spot all the cars sitting on tyres so under-inflated that the side walls are bulging out and rims almost touching the floor. Drivers like this should hand in their license and get the bus...
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Does make me wonder how many cars are on the road with illegal tyres if I can spot 4 in a 10 minute walk!
I’m sure there are something like 1m cars on UK roads with no insurance. Of course, if you’re not bothered about insurance, then you’ll not be bothered about trifles such as an MOT.
Could you put something on the police portal saying you regularly see unroadworthy cars on the school run and please could they do a spot check one morning?
I used to work in an office complex, where most of the people working there would have what is considered to be a well paying job.
Most of them were up to their eyeballs in debt in their ‘keeping up with the jones’ aspirations.
Walking through the car parks there were so many cars a couple years old and with initial high price tags, but on bald tyres! Or replaced with the cheapest crappy tyres.
There is a massive number of people out there who really cannot afford a car. But here we are… Dealers no longer give you a car price, instead they ask ‘how much can you afford to pay each month?’. I see around me so many people who stretch themselves beyond their max, and give no thought to the costs of maintenance, repairs, insurance, wear & tear, etc. And they don’t want to listen to anyone or anything sensible.
Maybe I’m just an old fashioned grumpy bastard, but this is just another example and reason of why our society in this country is ****ed.
Right, I’m off to go grumble at something else now…
It’s a major problem that I don’t see going away any time soon.
I had a borderline tyre note in an MOT a while back. Looked up the fine in case it went too far - 3 penalty points and a £2,500 fine per bald tyre.
I'd say it's worth a note just to mention that, do everyone a favour.
I had a borderline tyre note in an MOT a while back. Looked up the fine in case it went too far - 3 penalty points and a £2,500 fine per bald tyre.
I'd say it's worth a note on a windscreen just to mention that, do everyone a favour.
You've got to remember, most people don't pay any interest in their car other than the make/model, age and how clean it is. Just watch how many people drive into Rufford Ford at full speed. I don't think people even know the cars engine needs oxygen to work.
I think 90% of people just put the cheapest stuff on and do the minimum of maintenance, or no maintenance at all, unless told otherwise, regardless of the cost of the car. I'd put my OH in this category! I doni't drive much and often get in the car and notice a flat tyre, washer fluid empty, various warning lights on. I don't think she's ever checked the tyres.
Gonna jump on this topic with something I've been on the verge of posting for a few weeks now: headlight bulbs out. Every time I'm out now after dark I pass multiple cars with a headlight bulb out.
There was a time (grumpy old git alert) when the fuzz would happily pull you over and at the very least give you a talking to for having a bulb out. Doesn't seem to be the case any more.
Compared to tyres the cost of replacing a bulb is peanuts and, with a quick search on YouTube, it's usually something that can easily be done yourself inside 30 minutes. Why the epidemic?
(Glad to finally have an outlet for this, the OH is getting increasingly tired of me griping about it 😆 )
@MaCruiskeen.
I am worried about my car , they never repair perfectly. I am worried about the human contents of the car especially children who sit in seats not designed to protected them as well. I am worried about my family on foot and cycle, you'res too.
My reply was asking if namewould feel the same the same if he was involved in the result of the car drivers negligence.
Take a picture wit plate in shot.post on police x/ etc. Anybody that can afford a car can afford decent tyres. Fines and punishments should be raised for t his to punitive levels.
@MaCruiskeen.
I am worried about my car , they never repair perfectly. I am worried about the human contents of the car especially children who sit in seats not designed to protected them as well. I am worried about my family on foot and cycle, you'res too.
My reply was asking if Jamie would feel the same the same if he was involved in the result of the car drivers negligence.
Take a picture wit plate in shot.post on police x/ etc. Anybody that can afford a car can afford decent tyres. Fines and punishments should be raised for t his to punitive levels.
headlight bulbs out. Every time I'm out now after dark I pass multiple cars with a headlight bulb out.
Not to mention brake lights. Even more common IME!
Headlight bulb out? Simply put your front fog lights on to compensate.
As mentioned, most folk just don't look after cars and it's £x per month and that's it. Tyres don't get a look in, unless it's a MOT fail. Cheap tyres are not as good, fact.
- If it’s leased, I thought the lease company usually covered consumables?
There is a thing though, particularly in urban areas outside London, where people could probably manage without the car they can’t really afford if there were safe and reliable alternatives…
- edit - double post, and I definitely didn't submit twice!
Oh come on people of the UK! Isn't there a saying along the lines of "good job <x>ism never reached the UK because they'd have fully adopted it". I'd love to observe someone doing something similar here in France....
Oh come on people of the UK! Isn't there a saying along the lines of "good job x ism never reached the UK because they'd have fully adopted it". I'd love to observe someone doing something similar here in France....
You've got to remember, most people don't pay any interest in their car other than the make/model, age and how clean it is
I don’t really care about make/model. Age isn’t important. I don’t give two hoots if it’s clean.
I do care about tyres. I guess marks me as far from the average. As if I needed more evidence.
Oh come on people of the UK! Isn't there a saying along the lines of
good job x ism never reached the UK because they'd have fully adopted it.
I'd love to observe someone doing something similar here in France....
"Tyre tread is there to displace liquid debris
Ms Williams would do well to buy a dictionary.
- If it’s leased, I thought the lease company usually covered consumables?
It varies, but typically it's an optional extra that you pay a few quid a month more for. On shorter leases it's more cost-effective to hand it back with Right Said Fred up front.
to be fair, bald tyres are extremely unlikely to have reduced grip outside a school in normal (non snowey) british conditions. Tread pattern can make a massive difference at high speeds, but under 30 you're not going to be aquaplaning - in fact the increased amount of contact patch may help grip 😉
I live near Manchester, it's always wet. 🙂
bald tyres are extremely unlikely to have reduced grip outside a school in normal (non snowey) british conditions
That's so incorrect... as any confirmed rubber sniffer knows, brands like Michelin actually recommend one replace the tyre even before the legal limit is reached if maximum safety is a concern, as grip levels drop and braking distances increase noticeably once the tyre is past around 75% worn. Some premium tyre brands actually put a lot of effort into features that attempt to maintain the grip levels as the tyre wears - a bald standard tyre does not suddenly become a racing slick just before its goosed. Any time on track in anything remotely sporty will confirm that too. Worn tyres are always a liability.
I regularly see bald tyres on cars near schools. The surprising things is how often I see it on more expensive cars, where you'd expect it to be picked up from servicing. Why you'd drive a £30 - 60k car with children on illegal tyres?!
The teenager's father, Jon, also part of the group of 12, suffered a broken leg and saw his son die.
I am not sure I would be able to cope with that, I am also not sure I would be able to not seek revenge
I'd just try and let the driver know if I noticed a defect with their car. It's their responsibility to sort it, of they don't it's up to them.
I'd just try and let the driver know if I noticed a defect with their car. It's their responsibility to sort it, if they don't it's up to them.
I regularly see bald tyres on cars near schools. The surprising things is how often I see it on more expensive cars, where you'd expect it to be picked up from servicing. Why you'd drive a £30 - 60k car with children on illegal tyres?!
Because it’s exceedingly unlikely you’ll get caught.
I see this a lot. I even got the title of unofficial MOT tester at work due to my "curtain twitcher" attitude to peoples cars.
Just walking past cars ive spotted, missing exhausts, rubber through to the wire. oil, petrol, coolant and power steering pump leaks to the point where the cars are undrivable and/or damaging others property.
best one so far was the chap who drove into work down the M62 (rishworth to brighouse ) with the exhaust broken at the downpipe and dragging on the floor the whole time. Tied it up with wire at work and didnt get it fixed till the weekend (it had chamfered off the end).
or the chap that had an earth fault so used a 4" G glamp to clamp it to his chassis. used to fall off on the way in, didnt seem to be bothered who it hit when it fell off and just and nicked another from stores.
Tomorrow in work there will be at least 4 cars in the carpark that would fail an MOT. told them. No one cares, wait to see if it gets through the next MOT.....
I'd say this was a case of mind your own business.
As another road user, someone with a dangerous vehicle on the roads is my business.
I'd say this was a case of mind your own business.
Very civic-minded, I’m sure… *rolls eyes*
So, you’re perfectly fine with the very real risk of one of those drivers losing control on a wet road and skidding into a group of parents with kids in pushchairs, then?
I'd say this was a case of mind your own business.
Very civic-minded, I’m sure… *rolls eyes*
So, you’re perfectly fine with the very real risk of one of those drivers losing control on a wet road and skidding into a group of parents with kids in pushchairs, then?
This came off a working Royal Mail van - they just didn’t give a toss about the roadworthiness or whether it was
Actually they do, liability see. Which they pass on to the postie with daily van checks. An ex-collegue of mine was fired, one of the contributing factors being his van was found with a dangerously worn tyre after he had been repeatedly filling in the van check as all ok without actually checking. The fact that they fit the vans with cheap shit tyres that have no grip in bad weather is another matter.
Tomorrow in work there will be at least 4 cars in the carpark that would fail an MOT. told them. No one cares, wait to see if it gets through the next MOT.....
For anyone in this position there's a solution https://www.police.uk/pu/contact-us/a-road-traffic-incident/
This beams you through to the appropriate local police page to make an online report