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[AudiDudi]

And reliability! Tires of today are amazing devices compared to the tires of 60 years ago.

As are 4 and 6 pot calipers.

 

[ModestNestEgg]

And reliability! Tires of today are amazing devices compared to the tires of 60 years ago.

You do have a good point there.

I remember hearing stories of my great grandparents having to routinely change a tire for a 100 mile trip, if I am recalling the story correctly.

 

[Music Lover]

I've never seen a car make that decision. I drive to my gym 7 days a week, and none of whatever you're worried about occurs.

I had to rush my 87-year old father to emergency a couple weeks ago because he was vomiting blood (he's fine now). I'd hate to think that my car could lock me out because it detected that I was stressed.

Upset parents drive their children to emergency all the time.

 

[JoeWras]

You do have a good point there.

I remember hearing stories of my great grandparents having to routinely change a tire for a 100 mile trip, if I am recalling the story correctly.

You remember correct. My grandparents had the same story. And the movie "A Christmas Story" humorously catalogs this common event of that era. As for my young childhood, say before 1973 (my age 10), we had a flat at least once every 10k miles. After that, rarely recall a flat. It coincides with the huge roll-out of steel belted tires.

DW and I have personally had about 6 flats over 1M miles between us. 1 of those was user error when DW scuffed a curb with a drain grate, the another was hitting a nasty chunk of broken concrete road debris. Both of those were immediate deflation events due to sidewall tears, fortunately at low speed. So only about 4 random nail or screw impacts.

 

[AudiDudi]

You remember correct. My grandparents had the same story. And the movie "A Christmas Story" humorously catalogs this common event of that era. As for my young childhood, say before 1973 (my age 10), we had a flat at least once every 10k miles. After that, rarely recall a flat. It coincides with the huge roll-out of steel belted tires.

DW and I have personally had about 6 flats over 1M miles between us. 1 of those was user error when DW scuffed a curb with a drain grate, the another was hitting a nasty chunk of broken concrete road debris. Both of those were immediate deflation events due to sidewall tears, fortunately at low speed. So only about 4 random nail or screw impacts.

DWs father on the farm in MT during WWII when you couldn't get tires said they would fill them with wheat (which they had lots of), sew them up and be good for maybe 15 miles. Dump out the flour and rinse and repeat.

 

[Texas Proud]

One of the benefits of modern tires is that you can get a nail/screw etc. and NOT have a flat...

I have gotten two in the last two months.. tire goes down in pressure a bit, I pump it up and take it to Discount tire for a free repair... BTW, I do NOT have a spare..