It doesn’t help that idiots keep buying/selling cars with ridiculously low profile tyres and then speed through roadworks.
Back in the 1990s and 2000s, people would choose to get illegally ridiculously low profile tyres fitted to their “high performance” vehicles for either track use or for styling.
That was fine because they knew that it negatively effected reliability and longevity, so they drove to the conditions, avoided pot holes and didn’t whinge if they fucked up an damaged their rims.
Now manufacturers install Low profile tyres on any PovPack, don’t include a spare tyre to save weight, just so they can fudge emissions ratings and economy numbers.
Newsflash, if you have to replace your tyres every six months because you keep blowing them out on potholes, it is more detrimental to the environment than slightly higher fuel consumption!
It doesn’t help that idiots keep buying/selling cars with ridiculously low profile tyres and then speed through roadworks.
Back in the 1990s and 2000s, people would choose to get illegally ridiculously low profile tyres fitted to their “high performance” vehicles for either track use or for styling. That was fine because they knew that it negatively effected reliability and longevity, so they drove to the conditions, avoided pot holes and didn’t whinge if they fucked up an damaged their rims.
Now manufacturers install Low profile tyres on any PovPack, don’t include a spare tyre to save weight, just so they can fudge emissions ratings and economy numbers.
Newsflash, if you have to replace your tyres every six months because you keep blowing them out on potholes, it is more detrimental to the environment than slightly higher fuel consumption!