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SUPOL:
Someone told me that but I doubted it. I send maybe my wheel needs to be changed

Alignment and wheel balancing would tell you what you need do.Try all and error means you dashing money away.

lond07:
Hope the information below will be of help.

Source : http://www.hometyre.co.uk/mobile-tyre-fitting/mobile-tyre-fitting-sussex/blog/do-tyres-have-a-shelf-life/

Do tyres have a shelf life?

Since the 1980's tyres have had a date stamp added to the side walls so that you can see how old they are.

During the 80's it was a 3 digit code giving the week number and year of manufacture. So 218 would equal week 21 in 1988, when we got to the 90's to differentiate they added a triangle to the 3 digits, so 218 (followed by a triangle) would represent week 21 in 1998. It became easier to remember from the year 2000 when a four digit code was used, so 2108 would represent week 21 in 2008.

The service life of a tyre is usually measured by the amount of tread remaining; in the UK the legal limit is 1.6mm over ¾ of the tread all around the circumference. But we should also be looking at the date code as oxidisation is also a serious concern, and since tyres are made of rubber they degrade with age.

Most consumers in the UK do not know that the date code exists, a survey in 2006 showed that only 4% of drivers realised that tyres becomes more dangerous as they age. A large body of scientific evidence supports, that most tyres should be replaced six years from the date they were manufactured. This six year expiration date begins from the day the tyre was made, not from the day it was sold and fitted to a vehicle.

Tyres age dangerously because a chemical process commonly referred to as oxidisation occurs, this simply means that a tyres components are exposed to oxygen, the oxygen particles cause the flexible components of the tyre to harden and become brittle. Over time, the tyre will fall apart under normal stress, just like an old rubber band. Because this process occurs naturally, it doesn't matter if a tyre is being used, stored as a spare, or waiting on a shelf in a tyre depot, the breakdown process has started from day one.

How old is too old? This is a subject of much debate within the tyre industry and no tyre expert can tell exactly how long a tyre will last. The results of experience of many tyre manufacturing companies including Bridgestone, warrant their tyres for 5 years from date of manufacture. Based on these understandings many vehicle manufacturers are now advising their customers to replace their tyres after 6 years, regardless of tread depth remaining.

Regardless of their age any tyre should be replaced if it shows significant signs of crazing, or cracking within the tread grooves or on the sidewalls, or if there is any sign of bulging on the tread face or sidewalls. All tyres should be inspected on a regular basis, do not wait for a yearly MOT or something to fail. If in doubt about a tyres suitability please consult your local Hometyre representative we will gladly advise you.

There are a number of organisations that are calling for an expiration date to be stamped on tyres, but until then the onus is down to you the consumer.

This is also one of the reasons that we at Hometyre are against part worn tyres, as most of these are either accident recovered tyres where the internal structural damage is not known, or some are up to 15 years old, have become brittle and dangerous, but without any laws in the UK regarding age, the part worn sellers can fit anything to your vehicle.tyre cracked Photo shows a crack around the edge of a tyre.

Bro this is from a blog by a coy that make mo ey off replacing tyres. We should stick to the website and advice from tyre manufacturers for now this is a blogs has no research nd are of personal opinion of the persons publishing it.it ain't binding

rusher14:
Exporters are laughing all the way to the bank.

Only of you get paid in $

glossy6:
Which road is that?

The Autobahn in Germany no speed limit.

sooperrescue:
hy Good question, the average tyre reading is 205/55/16/98 v. The v is the speed rating which means the car cannot exceed 240kms. In some cars like the sclass, bmw 7 series, their tyres are rated zr which means no speed limit. There are times when you will be driving at 120km and your tyres will be vibrating and you will be thinking it needs wheel bslancing but it is your car warning you to reduce speed cos the tyre on your car is not supposed to be there. If you have a range rover fitted with all season tyres with the speed rating limited at H, there is a tendency that that tyre has a B temperature and it will explode when faced with a 25degrees heat. The frsc stated in their report that over 77% of accídents were caused by burst tyres this year and we all know the intense heat the rains just chased away of recent. The legislation you talked about is because it will be suicidal to drive your car with winter tyres in summer or use summer tyres in winter. Here, it is a way of life. Nigerians import cars from all over the world and the cars arrive with 80% substandard tyres which are not meant for nigerian roads. These are the tyres on our roads and if you check many tire sellers stock, they sell majorly temperature b tyres which like you noted, is not ideal for a country that has only summer season. The best thing frsc should do right now is to prevent burst tyres accidents and we should all support them. It is better than being on the road asking for fire extinguisher

In ur 2nd line tell me what rd you gonna do 240km/hr on ur car? ?.I only know one rd in the whole world.

SUPOL:
When d tire is Worn one side nko?

Means your car need alignment

dannewlife:
ARE YOU SAYING THAT WE SHOULD USE TOKUMBO TYRES THAT WAS MANUFACTURED 15 YEARS AGO JUST BECAUSE THE THREAD IS STILL GOOD. YOU ARE WRONG. DON'T YOU KNOW THAT RUBBER HAS LIFESPAN. HOW ABOUT IT'S ABILITY TO RESIST HEAT ?

It doesn't have life span go to michelin website it is stated there. Go there and get informed.

One1after:
lol. You catch am, watch this same person cry genocide when the NA retaliate, just watch. Anyway, since the Chibok girls is a scam, then all this news is a scam as well.

When they go into the villages where old people live a blow it up it would be genocide. Why wait.why not re enforce and finish the militants on the river there and then and why did they have just few army on patrol at this trying tines

jkross:
if 20billion dollars was spent on GEJ's campaign PMB will not have won.... for 100million dollars Amechi will swim to the enemy ship no matter how many thousand nautical mile apart to pledge alligence....Promise Tinubu 1billion dollar plus his wife to be senate president he would remove agbafa and swim to enemy ship.....as for Rochas just promise to help him win pdp presidential primary even if its in 2027 he will jump ship..plz another gist this one is now oldnews

here is someone using their brains ahaah

sooperrescue:
If you can't read, go back to school. It is not every one that can type that know their left from their right.
We are not talking about tyre wear. We are talking about the temperature rating of a tyre, no matter how new the tyre is, if it is temperature b rating, it will explode under the high temperature we had from February this year. Michelin UK cannot be a reference point for our type of tyres. In their imports, 90% are temperature b tyre rating. No need checking out the wear when you are not sure that the tyre will survive a year. I don't know about the UK but in Switzerland, we use two types of tyres. Winter from October to April and Summer from May to September. The summer tyres are called performance tyre but in the USA, they use all season tyre which tolerates both temperatures and its speed rating is restricted but it is always temperature b except the speed rating is v and above, then it is rated as traction aa, temperature a. That's the tyre for Nigerian roads. Check the tyre on your car and look for the temperature rating and act.

Bro Im sorry to say ,I think you are ignorant of what you are trying to say,
The only difference between Winter and summer tyres are the grips .
During winter the weather is cold and the compounds harden in these case the winter tyres retains its grip
During summer the tyre compound expands and retains its grip
There was never an issue of tyr bursting its all about stopping and braking distance
In Tropical regions like ours in Nigeria We use all Seasons tyrs as there is no winter here.
In switz when yu get stopped do the police look for the date of manufacture in ur tyres? the check if you are using the right tyres and if this is correct then they check your thread by their markers to see how far worn you are and if its within the legal limit
The issue of 2 tier of tyres in the EU and swiss is more to do with legislature.
Your tyre ratings is peculiar to just your country and no where else
You keep saying speed rating, explain this, what has speed ratings got to do with your main tyres not spare and how is this applicable in Nigeria where we are always in summer

phemmyutd:
You think they only steal from national budget ? what happened to the one they suppose to be saving?

Yes teh SAVINGS, you forgot some Govt from teh SW and Amaechi took the FG to court for them to share the savings? did you
And waht did your state governor do with his share of the money did you bother to ask
its on record we had $22 saved up i n the excess crude account which were surplus after budget but thieving governors took the FG to court,citing lack of trust and transparency.This savings where our back up hence when the west where shouting recession we were like quiet in Nigeria.

labamo07:
according to your information stating nnpc and bodies generating revenues can steal, I hope you can understand the man in question is the sole head of the bodies. has it occurred to you drug dealers in south america are richer than bill Gates? I bet you don't know the worth of every heads of states and presidents in Nigeria.............

you forgot it goes to the CBN?
drug lords sell drugs, what has that got to do with the nations money of where they are from?
Same people claimed $30B was stolen by D madekwe,
You need to check the total revenue of Nigeria then you will know this is trash journalism.
You cant steal waht you never had.

labamo07:
if everyone is foolish, I bet you are a complete foolish fellow. did your plum brain tell you some nigerians are richer than Nigeria through siphoning of public funds. How come some people will never declare their assets? ode oshi, your brain is meant for thinking not for dustbin................

you think $20B nah beans go and check Bill gates has $79B worth,you fail to realize i made mention of howmuch Nigeria had not individuals if our budget was not up to $20B where was the funds stolen from you bank?
The scales would son clear instead of calling me foolish why don't you state facts like I have done
The Only group who can steal that amount would be NNPC,customs and any other revenue producing org arm of govt.

Nuhusky:
http://allafrica.com/stories/201605300673.html

SO how did one person have that amount of account without a bank insider

sooperrescue:
The frsc is right. In 2009. we trained some of their officers on tyre monitoring courtesy of Dunlop tyres. The tyres do expire after four years irrespective of the usage. I remember how Michelin tyres were always worried about the stock in their warehouse because of the poor sales activities and their clock ticking on their tyres. That said, the number one problem is the tyre temperature and speed ratings. Even if you bought a 2015 made tyre and it is temperature b tyre and t rating, you are courting danger. Ensure you have temperature a on your tyres and an accurate speed rating for your car.

Guy why come online to chat something of false or no meaning? ??go to michelin website and see what they say. I even copied a link on here and yoy are still living I the 70s so in all ur years U dnt know tyres have marker to monitor wear and tear?and what temp are you talking about? Is it not to this resolve they have an inflatable ratio to cater for expansion?

OJUcrook:
You ibos are very wicked. You support and applaud any news about the Niger Delta killing security operatives but when there is a report about the atrocities of these biafran miscreants, you are alwys quick to deny it

Oga free The ND from this thread it's about BIAFRA nothing to do with Niger Deltans

love4rent80s:


And the stupid niger delta avengers are there destroying nigerians oil pipeline and putting nigeria in darkness while their brother gej stole the whole money for his campaign instead of building their state, gej did not do anything for the niger deltans when he was in power, he only paid the terrorists, enriching them and the people of niger delta remained poor, I was from niger delta and a president of the country my state will look like heaven first

Get sense plz how can one steal the whole budget for 4 years?

labamo07:
$20b..... chaiiiiiii. I think I remember those visits to Lagos Island during campaign. I can testify to money being shared.................

Oga check ur brain well stop being a zombie
What's the total budget? $20B that more than 4 year's budget for NIGERIA don't follow follow be wise when these foolishness comes out to play. The budget for this year is $6.07B so U can see these EFCC has ran out of ideas to please zombies do t be one plz

AZUH:
No respect !!!! @ agarawu stop asking about my site , are you related to the engineer ? This unclad of a thing everybody is using ? I don't understand . If the engineer can mess with my 27m without mercy . I will unclad oh .

I think your case don pass Noise maker list, I have to get Video evidence, waht location are you planning on going commando plz??

louqas:
So what's the obsession with the president needing to mention fulani herdsmen in his speech ? The reference to ijaw leaders and nda in my post was to point out that no ijaw leader has come to condemn in strong words the activities of the NDA should we now believe they are condoning or are behind the NDA?

No BH is a real threat and the Heardsmen are real threat, to Humans.human lives has more value than the whole world Oil

donbrowser:
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Factory reset

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louqas:
Because the "menace of fulani herdsmen" Is just a media hype by you all. All the fake pictures of herdsmen carrying Ak47 have been proven to be not from anywhere in Nigeria. Yes killings by fulani herdsmen has been happening for long (still happening ) and the president has done everything humanly possible to stop it but you all won't be satisfied even if he comes out to specifically condemn it . Malaria,armed robbery,kidnpping for rituals kill far more people than the so called fulani herdsmen. So far I haven't heard any leader from Niger delta condemn the activities of NDA as if they are complicit should we all now be shouting that ijaw leaders including the former president are supporting NDA Just because they have not come out to condemn their activities in strong terms.

Remind us again the last time NDA raided a village,adopt few people and raped their women??,Not that I support waht they do but we have to cal a black sheep black when we see one, the topic is not about IJAW but Heardsmen and BH. and how PMB missed them in his speach

cocoduck:
did you connect it to the DC motor itself? There must be power and ground for it to work, the fan is Pulse Width Modulated, one is constant and the other is pulsed (ground and power), if you test it with a scope you will get a square wave, which is called duty cycle ( one of my friend says Dootie saikle) on and off signal, at the end it is still power and ground, maybe you didn't test the correct wires, you know these Germans and their over engineering, very simple things become soooooooo complicated and complex, (it is not your fault BTW). The same system is used in Toyota matrix I think from 2003 to 2008 to be precise, in the factory service manual, they showed how to test the fan itself.

Yep I did still no fire lol here is the bagga

EgunMogaji:
Erico2k2, old boy I hope you have supply of paper and pencil.

It looks like it's going to be a rowdy class today

Infact I don request for Xtra sheets

EgunMogaji:
I go come sample that Bachelor food uda dey cook

E go sweet U sotey u go take sample on ur way back to that free country

mufutau55:
Thank you my brother jare. His name don dey plenty for the book...
Nah that one we dey call "Egungun Becareful" (Masquerade Becareful).

Hajji M.

This nah green porcupine lol

isnovic:
As usual, a system to impoverish the already battered Nigerians is being cooked up.

Why install the speed limiting devices to the car, why not install radar systems on the road?

And how dare them fix a cost to be borne by the masses, since this is at their instance, it should be installed free of charge.

This system has proven to fail in most cases resulting in fatality and therefore not totally reliable plus it is prone to manipulation by skilled car re-wires.

Firstly, install a simple devices on the glasses of all cars, this will be given free along side the Vehicle particulars renewal licence at no extra cost.

Radar system installed in areas where the probability of over-speeding are more, plus all strategic points where speed needs to be monitored.


The devices senses the speed of the car via the unique glass stickers and transmit violations to the FRSC control/Monitoring Centre. This will in turn raise an alert of violation to the registered mobile of the car owner.


If any car passes the radar system, but no reading is obtained, a picture of the plate number is taken and sent also to the Control centre where a harsh fine is generated and sent to the registered mobile of the owner of the car with a possible jail term for tempering of federal device.


This bill is cleared during vehicle renewal processes and no harassment should be allowed whatsoever on the road by FRSC officers on motorist
.

This is how to implement ideas, not the ones that impale the people consciousness, finances and introduce additional burden on the already overburdened citizenry.



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I think these are for commercial vehicles Only, this what every advanced countries have Uk, US etc

Nyceguy92:
You seem to imply that 100 Km/h is on the high side.
Actually the maximum speed recommended by the FRSC is 120 Km/h.

The condition of the road is a major factor in road traffic accidents.
What maximum speed is the device going to allow? 50, 60, 90?
Whichever it is plus bad roads = no difference. Accidents will happen.

where did you get that from?
Plz the max speed limit for private in Nigeria is 100lm/he, for taxis its 90 km/hr
trailers and Buses have 60 km/hr links http://leadership.ng/news/413089/frsc-and-2015-speed-limit-enforcement
check the 3rd paragraph
So what are you talking about here or are you assuming?

GAZZUZZ:
You connected direct voltage from a battery to a circuit without knowing the pinout. Not very smart.

Ofcos not very smart hence I wasted £70,
that's what happens when one is ignorant and goes beyond his boundaries of expertise

AZUH:
@ muftutau . At my age ?that is an insult . I won't concur to you calling me a comedian . I think he voted for change as we'll .(;:straightface)

ehhhh

EgunMogaji:
I'm being charged N1,600 for Dangote 42.5r delivered to site in Ibadan. Traditionally I've been able to get it for N50 to N100 less when I'm on the ground.

That's the thing about doing build from afar, the cost benefit just doesn't work out

Buying ticket on United to fly home and buy cement cheaper < Just paying the extra Americana value added tax

And don't forget, you now have to branch and see me and the queen B4 you go to lagos ahaha