06-30-2008, 10:20 PM
Report courtesy of http://www.data4science.net
6-30-8
This serious tire problem is under-reported, and is probably the most serious threat to your life and millions worldwide. Even if you are mainly a city driver who only makes short trips can still affect you. Many vehicles have tires which are several years old. It makes no difference whether it's a car, truck, SUV or any other vehicle. We've put this life-saving information together based on stills from a recent ABC news video for people who cannot play streaming video.
The threat to all of us is tire AGING. Recently it has been disovered that tires older than 6 years, whether still on a vehicle or just bought in a store and installed on a vehicle, can easily self-destruct at highway speeds. You will not see the failure coming as this is taking place inside the tire. It is a myth that tires are not defective until cracks in the rubber appear. Tread can separate from the tire causing catastrophic failure. Tires dry out, and with today's rubber there may not be any visible signs a failure is happening until a fatal accident occurs.
Even worse, ABC news reporters found that Sears, Walmart and other well known stores frequently have OLD tires on the shelves being sold as new. It's still currently legal to sell these tires because there are no expiration dates established by any government, whether it be the United States or the UK. But as you'll soon discover, tires SHOULD have expiration dates.
Information NOT shown in the ABC report:
Contrary to popular belief, not all of these are retread tires that have failed. Retread tires have been outlawed in most states as unsafe and cannot be sold there. Imagine a retread factory putting a new tread on an OLD tire one whose rubber is already drying out. It would be the creation of yet another ticking time bomb waiting to go off. Is the risk really worth the little money that's saved?
Many tractor trailers are using retread tires to save money. The aging tire lawsuit may signal the end of these tires, too.
In the ABC video at a test track, a vehicle with safety outriggers and a professional driver at the wheel lost control when a simulated tire failure took place. What chance does any driver have when a tire self-destructs and they don't know it's about to happen?
If this report saves just one life it was well worth the effort.
Ted Twietmeyer
[email protected]
VIDEO: http://www.abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4826897
Photos and story here: http://www.rense.com/general82/timeb.htm
6-30-8
This serious tire problem is under-reported, and is probably the most serious threat to your life and millions worldwide. Even if you are mainly a city driver who only makes short trips can still affect you. Many vehicles have tires which are several years old. It makes no difference whether it's a car, truck, SUV or any other vehicle. We've put this life-saving information together based on stills from a recent ABC news video for people who cannot play streaming video.
The threat to all of us is tire AGING. Recently it has been disovered that tires older than 6 years, whether still on a vehicle or just bought in a store and installed on a vehicle, can easily self-destruct at highway speeds. You will not see the failure coming as this is taking place inside the tire. It is a myth that tires are not defective until cracks in the rubber appear. Tread can separate from the tire causing catastrophic failure. Tires dry out, and with today's rubber there may not be any visible signs a failure is happening until a fatal accident occurs.
Even worse, ABC news reporters found that Sears, Walmart and other well known stores frequently have OLD tires on the shelves being sold as new. It's still currently legal to sell these tires because there are no expiration dates established by any government, whether it be the United States or the UK. But as you'll soon discover, tires SHOULD have expiration dates.
Information NOT shown in the ABC report:
Contrary to popular belief, not all of these are retread tires that have failed. Retread tires have been outlawed in most states as unsafe and cannot be sold there. Imagine a retread factory putting a new tread on an OLD tire one whose rubber is already drying out. It would be the creation of yet another ticking time bomb waiting to go off. Is the risk really worth the little money that's saved?
Many tractor trailers are using retread tires to save money. The aging tire lawsuit may signal the end of these tires, too.
In the ABC video at a test track, a vehicle with safety outriggers and a professional driver at the wheel lost control when a simulated tire failure took place. What chance does any driver have when a tire self-destructs and they don't know it's about to happen?
If this report saves just one life it was well worth the effort.
Ted Twietmeyer
[email protected]
VIDEO: http://www.abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4826897
Photos and story here: http://www.rense.com/general82/timeb.htm