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Heart attack tyres

  • 23-11-2010 8:18pm
    #1
    peasant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭


    One minor drawback of my otherwise great winter tyres ...they're giving me heart attacks.

    Drive over some gravel at some point of the day and the rougher tread will pick up little stones and retain them for quite a while.
    Drive at speed at some later point and all of a sudden I'm getting shot at ...gravel working itself loose from the tyre hitting the underside of the car or inside of the wheelarches with a rather loud bang.

    Takes some getting used to, so it does :D


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  • #2
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,219 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Out of curiosity, what do you have on?


  • #3
    peasant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    Vredestein stonecatchers :D
    vredenstein_comtrac-winter.jpg
    (comtrac winter; C-rated tyres)


  • #4
    Matt Simis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,718 ✭✭✭Matt Simis


    peasant wrote: »
    One minor drawback of my otherwise great winter tyres ...they're giving me heart attacks.

    Drive over some gravel at some point of the day and the rougher tread will pick up little stones and retain them for quite a while.
    Drive at speed at some later point and all of a sudden I'm getting shot at ...gravel working itself loose from the tyre hitting the underside of the car or inside of the wheelarches with a rather loud bang.

    Takes some getting used to, so it does :D

    Lol, you know I never made this connection in car, but you are right, this does happen!
    I have 2x Fulda Winters on the BMW 850, 4x Mixed on the Alfa and 4x Goodyear on the S8. And my driveway is pebble covered...


  • #5
    Avns1s
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,425 ✭✭✭Avns1s


    Matt Simis wrote: »
    Lol, you know I never made this connection in car, but you are right, this does happen!
    I have 2x Fulda Winters on the BMW 850, 4x Mixed on the Alfa and 4x Goodyear on the S8. And my driveway is pebble covered...

    You'll be assisting the council with their gritting effort during the cold spell then!! :D


  • #6
    Flesh Gorden
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭Flesh Gorden


    Not with winter tyres, but I know the feeling and the sound.

    Drove over a resurfaced road on a hot day that wasn't quite dry, picked up some tarmac,
    then a load of stones and pulled over thinking the sump was scraping off the ground or something else drastic before I checked the tyres


    I'd watched cape fear a few days before so I didn't rule out finding robert de niro or sideshow bob strapped to the underside of the car haha


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  • #7
    tossy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,597 ✭✭✭tossy


    Funny but true,i found myself on the M9 last week constantly turning the radio down going WTF was that :D


  • #8
    Senna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    Had a massive stone stuck in the thread of my tyre, at low speed i thought i had a flat. Got out and tyre was ok, drove on at quicker speed and though the tyre was catching somewhere. then i seen the stone:o


  • #9
    cormie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,847 ✭✭✭✭cormie


    Haha, same thing here with my new winters :) Quick palpitation is better than a BTM I guess though :P


  • #10
    Interceptor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,165 ✭✭✭Interceptor


    I tried these on my Civic but its never wintery enough. I kept wanting to swap them off when the weather improved slightly every few weeks.

    Now if I lived in Switzerland...

    'cptr


  • #11
    A-Trak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,315 ✭✭✭A-Trak


    cormie wrote: »
    Haha, same thing here with my new winters :) Quick palpitation is better than a BTM I guess though :P

    BTM?
    Bastard tyre's malfunctioned?


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  • #12
    cormie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,847 ✭✭✭✭cormie


    Last three words here :P


  • #13
    keithclancy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,208 ✭✭✭keithclancy


    Dont know if i'll bother with Winters this year, if theres snow on the roads I wont drive anyway. Have a set of those tyres out in the shed, their not great imo.


  • #14
    tossy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,597 ✭✭✭tossy


    keithclancy wrote: »
    Dont know if i'll bother with Winters this year, if theres snow on the roads I wont drive anyway. Have a set of those tyres out in the shed, their not great imo.

    Care to expand on 'those' tyres?

    I bothered with winter tyres as unlike the rest of the country i'd rather not recoil in panic at a bit of snow/cold weather,i'd like to continue with my life and go places and do things not least of which is get to work.


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