someone should call the guards..

cantdecide

Nice, eh?? saw this today and couldn't resist a quick snap

Fey!

Methinks you need to cut down on whatever you're smoking!!!

cantdecide

it wasn't supposed to be a subliminal 'grass' post, fey. I was trying to show the fiesta running slicks....

Fey!

Sorry; I was a couple of minutes looking at the picture thinking "what's special..."!!! Didn't even make the grass-to-smoking connection!

Those tyres are scarily bald. And have obviously been subjected to an off-road excursion!

I thought the post had something to do with the thing under the car!!!

cantdecide

I think the tyre wear and the offroading are possibly related. WAY beyond ignorance-those tyres must be 5 or 10 thousand miles past worn out....

Fey!

Any idea what the driver is like? Male/female, Young/old, L-plate/full, etc?

Trying to figure if it's inexperience or ignorance, etc, etc.

cantdecide

I'm not sure. it was in a respectable estate and i was curious myself but i didn't want to look for too many clues cause it was out in the open.

The dogs in the street know your tyres are worn out long before they get that bad. Think of all the rain lately, they must have been all over the road in the wet.

it's just sheer contempt for fellow man, I'd wager.

Seth Brundle

"someone should call the guards.."
you know where they live...

Rudolph Claus

I bet you that that car is owned by blacks, most likely a female one.

bazz26

Nuttzy wrote:

I bet you that that car is owned by blacks, most likely a female one.

Not a very fair comment. Could be anyone's car, the Irish are notorious for not looking after their cars.

ctc_celtic

but you need slicks to put all the Fiesta power down on the track:D

paulie.walnuts

even F1 tyres have a tread of sorts those ones are gas!

\m/_(>_<)_\m/

Nuttzy wrote:

I bet you that that car is owned by blacks, most likely a female one.

no way, it obviously owned by French 37 year old man with brown hair:rolleyes:

hawker

I actually meant to get a picture of a car/van I spotted recently. The front passenger tyre had 6/8 bulges out the side of it. I couldn't believe my eyes.

I might see it again so if I do I'll post a pic.

Anan1

Nuttzy wrote:

I bet you that that car is owned by blacks, most likely a female one.

I don't know which is more idiotic, thinking that or posting it.

unkel

Nuttzy wrote:

I bet you that that car is owned by blacks, most likely a female one.

You've been warned several times in the past. Now you're banned for two weeks.

ismynametoolong

Anan1 wrote:

I don't know which is more idiotic, thinking that or posting it.

yes I agree but it is probably true !!!

mikedragon32

Also, someone is clearly flouting the litter laws by leaving an apple core under the car too!

For shame!

unkel

ismynametoolong wrote:

yes I agree but it is probably true !!!

Careful now!

Andrewf20

Id be happy to see the car slide of the road into the kerb. That would learn them. Ive seen this before , most recently it was on a red C180 2002 Merc in Drogheda, with 2 bald tyres at the back.

Alun

Yeah, it's not restricted to old rustbuckets either .. I parked next to a 2 year old E220 at a garden centre the other week with all four tyres almost slicks, I don't think there was more than 0.5mm of tread anywhere on any of them.

Anyway, as it happens, the owner came back to the car as I was getting in mine, a repectable looking 50-ish looking gent in a smart suit, and I politely suggested he should take a look at his tyres as they were looking 'a little low on tread'. Guess what he told me to do ?

fletch

If I see any dark coloured Fiestas in my rear view mirror on the motorway one of these rainy summer evenings, I'll be getting the hell out of the way! :eek:

jhegarty

Am I correct in thinking that no crime has been committed until they try and drive it ?

TwoShedsJackson

cantdecide wrote:

Nice, eh?? saw this today and couldn't resist a quick snap

You know where they live and the car reg, ring the Traffic Hotline and report them before they kill themselves and/or someone else.

Tony Danza

jhegarty wrote:

Am I correct in thinking that no crime has been committed until they try and drive it ?

I'd imagine you're right, considering there's any number of racing series that use slicks on race tracks.

daedalus2097

Indeed, though I wouldn't like to try bring that thing around Mondello on those tyres! Hard to imagine that none of the driving that wore them down past their minimum depth was on public roads, but it's probably true that you can have whatever you want holding up the car when it's parked - it's when you want to drive it that you run into trouble.

lafors

unkel wrote:

Careful now!

Down with that sort of thing

ButcherOfNog

TwoShedsJackson wrote:

You know where they live and the car reg, ring the Traffic Hotline and report them before they kill themselves and/or someone else.

Getting all sensible in your old age?

DonJose

unkel wrote:

You've been warned several times in the past. Now you're banned for two weeks.

Out of curiosity, if the original poster who took the photo reported back that the owner of the car was indeed a black woman, would you remove the ban!!!

A couple of weeks ago I was picking up my child from school. There was an north african woman driving a 94 Toyota, I don't know how this car passed an NCT, anyway she proceeded to put 6 kids into the car. She had a 6-7 year old on the front seat holding a year old baby, not a seatbelt in sight and the same with the 4 kids in the back. I phoned the guards but I think they missed her or they didnt bother their ass. I will come across this woman again as her kids are in the same school as mine.

I wouldn't hesitate to phone the guards if I saw such a unroadworthy car.

TwoShedsJackson

ButcherOfNog wrote:

Getting all sensible in your old age?

Not really, you know I'm just the sort of bollox who would do that anyway

Anan1

DonJose wrote:

Out of curiosity, if the original poster who took the photo reported back that the owner of the car was indeed a black woman, would you remove the ban!!!

Would that make Nuttzy's post any less racist?

Vegeta

oh man those tyres are scary, must be fun trying to turn into roundabouts in the rain.

R.O.R

Recently had one of our own company driver's call in because her car had broken down. Looked on the system and the only time the car had been in anywhere was when it broke down previously (Megane - need I say more), meaning that it had not been serviced, or more scarily - not had tyres in 78000KM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I'd hate to think how she was managing to stay on the wet back roads of Galway / Sligo area.

Some people beggar belief.

bambam

from the irish times today : http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2007/0726/breaking46.htm

One in eight cars using illegal tyres

Patrick Logue

More than 12 per cent of cars on Irish roads may have illegally-low tyre thread depths, according to research published today.

According to the Irish Tyre Industry Association study, this means as many as 200,000 cars are driving on illegal tyres.

The data was revealed as a joint campaign by the ITIA and the Road Safety Authority was launched by Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey.

"Motorists need to be extra vigilant when it comes to vehicle maintenance and tyre safety is an important element of that," Mr Dempsey said.

"This tyre safety campaign is an important one and I hope that it will prompt motorists to regularly check their tyres for depth, damage and pressure. Keeping your tyres in good working order might just save a life."

Michael Rowland, director of road safety education and research at the RSA said the condition of vehicles is a factor in just 0.7 per cent of fatal road collisions. However he added: "The breaking distance of your vehicle and its ability to handle wet weather conditions are all dependent on having safe and legal tyres".

As part of the tyre safety campaign the RSA and the ITIA have developed a tyre safety leaflet which is being distributed in all National Car Test Service (NCT) renewal notices over the next 12 months.

It will also be available from local driving test centres, NCT centres, local authorities and will be circulated to Garda stations. The leaflet contains important information on tyre safety and a tyre tread depth gauge.

Some 3.1 per cent of cars have failed the NCT due to tyres being under the legal tread depth limit of 1.6mm.

CLADA

Disgraceful, I've seen more thread on a condom.

Marcus.Aurelius

Wasn't surprised with the ban imposed by Unkel, and would agree with it in principle.

I agree also with DonJose, there are a lot of godawful foreign drivers out there, and out of all of them, the african bunch seem to be the worst (I'm sorry to say!), they drive like pigs with blinkers on, deliberately oblivious to all the hassle and annoyance they cause. There's loads of Irish drivers similar, but per capita, the locals are far better.

Honestly, I can't explain figure out how they're let drive here at all. Is there a license swop thing going on?

I don't want to tar them all, some do very well and are good drivers of higher calibre.

Alun

CLADA wrote:

Disgraceful, I've seen more thread on a condom.

TREAD

CLADA

Alun wrote:

TREAD

Thats what I mheant!!

sundodger5

Ah but the ex tyre man in me sees the new balance weight. it has either been fitted or balanced in a tyre depot recently and the professionals should know better.
comments on a postcard to....

Sandwich

Maybe they only drive when its dry, making them safer than the rest of us with treaded tyres.

Victor

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