MOT Advisory Notice question

Wig

Hammyman wrote: »

You don't need to be speeding. It also affects braking distance.

Still its nice to know I'm sharing the road with tw@s like you who don't give a toss.

Flyboy152 wrote: »

I think you misunderstand the concept of "Common sense."

B00st wrote: »

That may be difficult, as the risk of aquaplaning and stopping distances in general are massively increased in the wet with a tread depth of 2mm let alone the legal limit of 1.6mm.

I have no problems with the law of the country in this respect. Laws are made by definition on 'common sense'. Hammy you're the idiot here, lambasting someone for obeying the law.

All three of you are incapable of driving according to the conditions? i.e. when it is wet and you know you have a low tread you drive slower and you leave a bigger gap. 15 years no claims on my part shows I must be doing something right.

Flyboy152

Wig wrote: »

How do you know he has 1.7mm tread left? He could have had an advisory with 2 or 2.5 mm of tread left.

I don't, but then neither did PHYTHIAN, which was the point of the post.

Wig

jase1 wrote: »

WHAT?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVMqLmtOIYQ

A tyre that is at 1.6mm can take nearly 45m longer to stop from 70mph in the wet than a tyre at 3mm. The 1.6mm car was still travelling at 50mph at the point where the 3mm car had stopped. This is far, far worse than using new budget tyres all around.

If you were to use a cheap budget tyre that was worn down to 1.6mm, I dread to think how bad the performance would be.

People who leave their tyres until they are almost illegal are playing with fire.

Ummm, I don't drive at 70mph, and if I did I'd make sure the gap was sufficient.

jase1

Stay away from me on the motorway then if you have that attitude Wig.

Wig

Ooooh the big crazy idea of obeying the law !!!!!!

PHYTHIAN

Flyboy152 wrote: »

How in the heck do you know that?

The OP has done seventy-eight thousand miles in six years, that's over a thousand miles a month. If the tyres have one point seven millimeters of tread left, how do you know that will last two months?

The words probably... and but explain my thinking. Read the whole sentence instead of taking bits of it and using your preferred words to start trolling.
I have no idea how much thread he has left. That is irrelevant hence why I posted that he should get them changed ASAP.

jase1

Wig wrote: »

Ooooh the big crazy idea of obeying the law !!!!!!

So I take it then that you'd have every sympathy with the driver who rolls his car trying to take country lanes at exactly 59.9mph? After all he is "obeying the law" as well.

The law is an !!! on this one. Once again we're 10-20 years behind the continent, and will eventually be dragged kicking and screaming into line.

If the government gets its way and increases the speed limit on motorways to 80mph, no doubt the resulting carnage from numpties driving their cars "legally" at 80 in the wet with 1.6mm tyres all around will be blamed on the speed limit.

Flyboy152

I don't think it's a legal requirement to drive at exactly seventy miles per hour.

jase1

Flyboy152 wrote: »

I don't think it's a legal requirement to drive at exactly seventy miles per hour.

No, but it is legal to. Just as it isn't a legal requirement to run tyres down to 1.6mm, but it is legal to.

Neither are exactly sensible in the wrong conditions. Yet apparently the latter is common sense because the law says so.

Which would you rather have bearing down on you on the motorway in wet conditions -- a car on new tyres, 150m away, that has just started slowing from 70, or the same car on 1.6mm tyres, 150m away, that has just started slowing from 60, given the above information?

mikey72

jase1 wrote: »

No, but it is legal to. Just as it isn't a legal requirement to run tyres down to 1.6mm, but it is legal to.

Neither are exactly sensible in the wrong conditions. Yet apparently the latter is common sense because the law says so.

Which would you rather have bearing down on you on the motorway in wet conditions -- a car on new tyres, 150m away, that has just started slowing from 70, or the same car on 1.6mm tyres, 150m away, that has just started slowing from 60, given the above information?

I'd rather have one driven by someone who was driving correctly for the conditions, and started braking at the correct distance to ensure a safe stop if required.