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Big fine if pressure incorrect.
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Glandwr said:
So what would be name of that offence I wonder 10k fine and driving ban?
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Seems the gov is going to come down heavy on folk not maintaining there cars, i found in the last 20 years or more many folk just drive and have no idea on where to find things like b flued water oil brake pads etc and just join the AA etc and drive to it dies at the roadside.
 
I see many cars with tyres not up to scratch, then there is the one eye bandits with only one light working up front, some with ex pipes hanging of is another big danger, esp if it drops of on the m way and you are on a m bike. :eek:
 
Then there is trailers with no mud guards proper lights if any plus bauld tyres and no safty breakaway chain, caravaners are well known for this.
I seen one detatch on the m1 motorway out of Belfast years backand crash into a pile of dust, lucky it hit no one.
 
trevskoda said:
Then there is trailers with no mud guards proper lights if any plus bauld tyres and no safty breakaway chain, caravaners are well known for this.
I seen one detatch on the m1 motorway out of Belfast years backand crash into a pile of dust, lucky it hit no one.
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1 down, thousands to follow 😉
 
Is it 01st April? - ha ha ha, biggest load of baloney seen for a long time.
Ha ha ha.
Good one Trev.
Suspected you had been hacked initially.
HO HO HO.
Nonsense the lot of it.
 
trevskoda said:
Seems the gov is going to come down heavy on folk not maintaining there cars, i found in the last 20 years or more many folk just drive and have no idea on where to find things like b flued water oil brake pads etc and just join the AA etc and drive to it dies at the roadside.
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I remember about 20 years ago in a management meeting the GM asking each of us if we were carrying out the company car checks. Everyone was saying yes until it got to me and I said no, I don’t do any of them. Initial anger died down after I explained the car has sensors and reported on every point on the check list except tyre tread and National Tyres did weekly checks for that. Cars were properly maintained so no reason the reporting should be wrong. My points were accepted lol

My Motorhome doesn’t have the same amount of sensors and reporting that my cars did/do so I will look at things on that but car I just get in and drive still
 
A builders labourer was called into the boss's office:
"Fred, you're sacked"
"But why Sir? What have I done?"
"Your wheelbarrow was going squeak . . . . . squeak . . . . . squeak . . . . .squeak. It should be going squeaksqueaksqueaksqueaksqueak".

Back to the topic, there is a lot of discussion on various forums ./ fora (I failed Latin) about the correct tyre pressure. You can read the label on the door pillar, or you can read the owner's manual or you can write to the tyre manufacturer (Continental are very good at responding) and ask them, if you give accurate weights of each axle.
Personally I try to keep to the sticker in the door frame because I guess that is what Mr Policeman (or much more likely an employee of the Highways Agency) would look at.

Then there is the bother of finding a) a tyre pump and b) a pressure gauge that will cope with 70psi. A lot of garage air machines won't go to 70, nor will your average ebay thing that says 200psi get over 50 on a good day with 14volts to power it. I bought a £99 Aldi proper twin cylinder garage compressor with air tank, and that does the job nicely. . . . . . . . .
Hmm. Since I bought my newtome mh I haven't checked the pressures . . . .better go and do it . . . . .
Tomorrow. It's getting dark just now :cool:
 
So I learned today from Malvern tyres that European rules are different to UK regarding tread depth on motorhomes, ie, 4mm minimum on tyres including the spare, I have a 2014 peugeot with 27K from new on original tyres but replacing fronts with spare (unused and not been in the sun) and a new matching Conti MH tyre but they’re reluctant to put an old tyre off the front back on the spare as it’s down to 3mm ,fine in UK but they reckon if I’m stopped in France they’ll make me buy a new spare, is this true ?, do I need to carry a spare at all anyway ?
 
guerdeval said:
So I learned today from Malvern tyres that European rules are different to UK regarding tread depth on motorhomes, ie, 4mm minimum on tyres including the spare, I have a 2014 peugeot with 27K from new on original tyres but replacing fronts with spare (unused and not been in the sun) and a new matching Conti MH tyre but they’re reluctant to put an old tyre off the front back on the spare as it’s down to 3mm ,fine in UK but they reckon if I’m stopped in France they’ll make me buy a new spare, is this true ?, do I need to carry a spare at all anyway ?
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I don't think the tyre place has got that completely correct.

3 or 4 mm may be the limit of a winter tyre, when and where winter tyres are required, but not other times.

Anyway, I'm not sure so time for a little search. :)
 
I got a slow puncture in one of my rear tyres on my EV last week. A cursory check showed decent tread but this is what I found when I removed the wheel. Changed all wheels onto winter set so I could drive and took the car into the EV service centre. Their response - nothing wrong with the rear camber sir, you have the suspension to lower at speed but the camber is correct at standard height! So when running low the rear wheels are only running on part of the tread. Solution, don’t lower the car at speed which makes a mockery of having that option and the service centre won’t reset the camber so it is correct on low.
Really good job I got that slow puncture as I would never have seen the problem as 80% of the tread is ok. Now many hundreds of quid worse off but new tyres now.

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