Understeer in E46, is something wrong?

Gaygle · 2 Jun 2010 at 09:07

Oh dear.

Cords exposed is not good - what would have happened if one had blown out at 80mph?

What were the new tyres you got?

mrk · 2 Jun 2010 at 09:21

Damn!

And you said the tread/tyres looked good and expensive not long ago too....

Eyesight test time methinks!

PMKeates · 2 Jun 2010 at 10:04

Holy tyres batman!

ruffneck · 2 Jun 2010 at 10:11

MikeHiow · 2 Jun 2010 at 10:15

Seriously? I don't know about the rest of you, but I don't check the inside of my tyres unless I'm given a reason to - now I know he had a reason to, but it sounds like he didn't fully understood the matter. I'll usually just stick my finger in the outer groove and run it round until I find a wear indicator - I bet most people do the same.

At least he found the problem

InvaderGIR · 2 Jun 2010 at 10:17

I check mine all the time. It's easy and a sensible thing to do.

paradigm · 2 Jun 2010 at 10:17

MikeHiow said:
Seriously? I don't know about the rest of you, but I don't check the inside of my tyres unless I'm given a reason to - now I know he had a reason to, but it sounds like he didn't fully understood the matter. I'll usually just stick my finger in the outer groove and run it round until I find a wear indicator - I bet most people do the same.

At least he found the problem

Nothing like burying your head in the sand eh? Not exactly hard to either get your head down low (for the back) or turn full-lock (for the front).

InvaderGIR said:
I check mine all the time. It's easy and a sensible thing to do.

On your bicycle, or do you do it for buses and taxis?

MikeHiow · 2 Jun 2010 at 10:18

Well done

InvaderGIR · 2 Jun 2010 at 10:19

paradigm said:
On your bicycle, or do you do it for buses and taxis?

Don't have a bike.

Buses...sometimes if I'm really bored.

But no, I mean when I have a car, I check them. Also check the friends and family's cars too as I know most of them don't bother.

[TW]Fox · 2 Jun 2010 at 10:20

How hard is it to park on full lock every so often so You can spend 3 maybe 4 seconds having a quick glance?

MikeHiow · 2 Jun 2010 at 10:21

My method works for me just fine, thanks

paradigm · 2 Jun 2010 at 10:22

MikeHiow said:
My method works for me just fine, thanks

Just like it worked for the OP? Or do you just simply like being ignorant?

Matt82 · 2 Jun 2010 at 10:23

just think how annoyed youd be at getting points on your licence for somethign as daft as tyres

antijoke · 2 Jun 2010 at 10:23

I check my tyre tread all over regularly, in fact I pull on my drive with full lock and always give my tyres a glance to make sure they are safe.

Matt82 said:
just think how annoyed youd be at getting points on your licence for somethign as daft as tyres

Would have no grounds to be annoyed, they would be quiet desrved to get points.

Fr0dders · 2 Jun 2010 at 10:27

NVP said:
Nah I knew they'd gotten low the last time I checked but then I didn't expect them to wear that quickly till I checked again.

why didnt you change them when they got low then ?

you dont carry on driving when the tyres get illegal and drive it till the cords start showing :/

MikeHiow · 2 Jun 2010 at 10:28

paradigm said:
Just like it worked for the OP? Or do you just simply like being ignorant?

Its worked for nearly 7 years so far, just fine.

I'm fortunate enough to be able to feel when something is wrong with my car.

paradigm · 2 Jun 2010 at 10:37

MikeHiow said:
I'm fortunate enough to be able to feel when something is wrong with my car.

So can any competent driver, however you typically won't feel that a single inch wide strip of a single tyre is below the legal limit.

So why not... just check?

[TW]Fox · 2 Jun 2010 at 10:38

MikeHiow said:
Its worked for nearly 7 years so far, just fine.

I'm fortunate enough to be able to feel when something is wrong with my car.

You rely on feel to tell you if the inside of your tyre is worn?

NVP · 2 Jun 2010 at 10:38

Duke said:
I thought you said you checked the tyres?

[TW]Fox;16669113 said:
They don't suddenly show cord overnight. You must have driven on them whilst dangerously low to end up with that!

Unintentionally I guess, I had noticed they were low on the inside but they were no where close to being that bad so I kept on using them but it wasn't long until they ended up like this. :confused:

Gaygle said:
What were the new tyres you got?

I just went the model up and got RE050As

MikeHiow · 2 Jun 2010 at 10:46

[TW]Fox;16669599 said:
You rely on feel to tell you if the inside of your tyre is worn?

Not directly, but something would likely be wrong if the outside was well within the limits and the inside was under.

Like I say, I've managed just fine for nearly seven years now.

For the record, I'm not saying I never check the inside of the tyre, occasionally I might (if the outside tread is past 3mm for any length of time for whatever reason), but I've managed to catch anything that might cause uneven wear by feel every time, without fail.