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Sometimes the cheapest option isn't the right one. I fondly remember my neighbours going to a well-known catalogue-based store and buying the cheapest lawnmower they stocked. How we laughed as they realised it had non-rotating wheels and died when presented with grass. Tell us about times you or others have been let down by being a cheapskate.

(I helped save b3ta! Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Tue 24 Jun 2014, 12:42)
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Yep.
Your last paragraph is the important one. That rubber has got a pretty small surface area to try and grip the road and push tons of metal about. Combine that, with the fact that it is inflated with internal pressure, has centripetal force pushing it outwards, and every single part of it undergoes hundreds of thousands of cycles of compression and tension very very fast.

Good tyres are probably one of the most sophisticated and complicated components on a car.
(eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Thu 26 Jun 2014, 18:12, 1 reply)
they're bundles of wire bound up in vulcanised rubber
if any other moving part of your car is less complicated or sophisticated than that then I'll lend you two hundred quid to buy a better car
(I helped save b3ta! Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 26 Jun 2014, 18:25, closed)
A colleague of mine got some run-on-flats for his beamer,
and told me that, thanks to this miracle of tyre technology, he'd never need buy tyres ever again.
Bet they were really sophisticated.
(I helped save b3ta! monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 26 Jun 2014, 18:41, closed)
are retards allowed to drive nowadays? it's political correctness gone mad

(I helped save b3ta! Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 26 Jun 2014, 18:45, closed)
YES
they drive beamers.

haven't you ever been on a motorway?
(I helped save b3ta! rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 26 Jun 2014, 18:49, closed)
fuck no
I take my Bentleys up the wiggly roads ... I don't pay the driver to point it in a straight line and queue amongst the plebs
(I helped save b3ta! Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 26 Jun 2014, 19:23, closed)
As it happens I don't have a car right now. Can I still have the cash?
Incidentally, the sophistication to which I referred was the materials science that goes into the tyre. Obviously the actual construction of a tyre is pretty basic, but there is almost unlimited scope for complexity in the manufacture of the materials used.

Good tyres will increase the comfort of your ride, your fuel efficiency, your acceleration and top speed (marginally), your handling, your breaking distance... All due to the quality of the materials used. And they're the cheapest and easiest thing to upgrade.
(eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Thu 26 Jun 2014, 19:00, closed)
the reason they're the cheapest thing to upgrade is because they're the simplest mechanical part of the car
which is what I just said ... I'm happy to say it again a couple of times if you're in the mood for a pointless interweb argument ... but I'm already at the pub
(I helped save b3ta! Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 26 Jun 2014, 19:21, closed)
Please do.

(eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Thu 26 Jun 2014, 22:10, closed)
pollen filter
is vying for that crown.
(I helped save b3ta! Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Thu 26 Jun 2014, 22:12, closed)
I don't think changing that is going to help my performance or safety in the wet

(I helped save b3ta! Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 27 Jun 2014, 11:42, closed)

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