Is this tyre dangerous?
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If I was carrying out a MOT test on that car, I would be hard pushed to find a reason to fail them. Those cracks are quite small, less than 25mm long (or 10% of the tyre width, whichever is greater), so I'm not allowed to open them up to look for exposed cord, if there's no bulges in them to indicate a failure of the structure, they appear to be a pass. They'll certainly get and advisory.0
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Joe_Horner wrote: »Yes, but cracking is only a fail if it exposes the ply or cords which it's very unlikely those do.0
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I wouldn't fail them either, they'd get an advise though.
'Lethal' - I like that one.0 -
The individual cracks may be only around 25 mm long but they don't have to grow much to turn into a complete circumferential crack around the tyre. I wonder if the tyre has been run in a seriously under inflated condition with consequent weakening of the underlying structure.0
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[...]Those cracks are quite small, less than 25mm long (or 10% of the tyre width, whichever is greater), so I'm not allowed to open them up to look for exposed cord[...]
I think you've just cleared up a puzzle I've had for years over this - the apparent ambiguity between- a fail for a crack / cut over 25mm and "deep enough to reach the ply or cords" and
- a fail for "any of its ply or cord exposed"
when the second would appear to cover the first anyway.
So, do I take it that the fail for "ply or cords exposed" only applies to damage where the ply is visible without any probing / prying / lifting flaps of rubber?0 - a fail for a crack / cut over 25mm and "deep enough to reach the ply or cords" and
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