lucky to be alive.

[highlandsflyer]

Certainly is. Per tyre.

Easy to miss this, you don't really feel it.

 

[Rusty Scrubber]

 

[T'boo Ted]

Pa, driven with tyres that were liek that the entire tread width... admittedly they werre potenza 540 soft compound, but in a downpour they still worked better than a full treaded goodyear eagle f1 in the dry

 

[sylus]

I thought it was a surly moonlander tyre

 

[sletti]

No tread is bad enough, but getting down the casing like that is pretty horiffic.

How old is the MOT on your car? Because it is difficult to think that you didn't get an advisory on your last test, as going from comfortably legal to uttely bolloxed in a year takes some doing.

Unless you have a very powerful front engined car and a penchant for dumping the clutch at the lights...

 

[videojetman]

the tyres are on a deawoo kalos 1.4. not the most powerful of cars.
all i can say is i will be checking this every week now.
but i'll deffo be getting the tracking done.
i would never knowingly drive a car with tyres like this.
all i can say is a lesson learned in time.

 

[sletti]

Good ideas all (deffo the tracking).

I run a fairly powerful road car but even with apenchant for trackdays, I don't recall seeing a tyre go from hero to zero between MOTs without getting an advisory at the previous MOT.

Still, any lesson learnt regarding tyres, that didn't involve either a trip to court or casualty can only be a good thing.

Stay safe

Stig

 

[Neil]

Good ideas all (deffo the tracking).

I run a fairly powerful road car but even with apenchant for trackdays, I don't recall seeing a tyre go from hero to zero between MOTs without getting an advisory at the previous MOT.

Still, any lesson learnt regarding tyres, that didn't involve either a trip to court or casualty can only be a good thing.

Stay safe

Stig

I had a (front wheel drive) car that did something similar, on the inside of the rear tyres - but just the inside, the rest of the tyre looked fine for most of the width of the tread, but it would wear the inside edges down severely (as bad as these here, but perhaps more localised on that inner shoulder of the tyre), in quite a short period (small number of months).

From a careless perusal of the tyres it wasn't that obvious, but if you looked properly at the full width of the tyre you could see it. It was a rear suspension alignment problem.

 

[sletti]

I had a (front wheel drive) car that did something similar, on the inside of the rear tyres - but just the inside, the rest of the tyre looked fine for most of the width of the tread, but it would wear the inside edges down severely (as bad as these here, but perhaps more localised on that inner shoulder of the tyre), in quite a short period (small number of months).

From a careless perusal of the tyres it wasn't that obvious, but if you looked properly at the full width of the tyre you could see it. It was a rear suspension alignment problem.

That sounds like a serious tracking fault, so I could imagine that is possible, but the OPs tire went from badly worn to onewaytickettothekwikfitinthesky across the width of the tyre, which is so alarming that I fear my bowel would have spontaneously purged itself if I took a wheel off and saw that.

But an interesting question to ask would be how motorists generally become aware that their tyres are no longer legal? I check my tyres regularly to monitor wear and degradation after furious driving on a track, but I suspect that amongst the rank and file motorists most would be alerted by their MOT advisory. Hmmmm...

 

[Neil]

I had a (front wheel drive) car that did something similar, on the inside of the rear tyres - but just the inside, the rest of the tyre looked fine for most of the width of the tread, but it would wear the inside edges down severely (as bad as these here, but perhaps more localised on that inner shoulder of the tyre), in quite a short period (small number of months).

From a careless perusal of the tyres it wasn't that obvious, but if you looked properly at the full width of the tyre you could see it. It was a rear suspension alignment problem.

That sounds like a serious tracking fault, so I could imagine that is possible, but the OPs tire went from badly worn to onewaytickettothekwikfitinthesky across the width of the tyre, which is so alarming that I fear my bowel would have spontaneously purged itself if I took a wheel off and saw that.

But an interesting question to ask would be how motorists generally become aware that their tyres are no longer legal? I check my tyres regularly to monitor wear and degradation after furious driving on a track, but I suspect that amongst the rank and file motorists most would be alerted by their MOT advisory. Hmmmm...

In the case I had, it wasn't so much just tracking, per se, it was rear suspsension issues.

And I get what you're saying - most people, I suspect, never look at tyre tread, condition, pressure - or underbonnet stuff like oil level, coolant level, washer fluid level etc... - I highly suspect most either rely on MOTs, any servicing done, or when something breaks.

The law wouldn't let them off with that, though - just because most are either ignorant, or unconcerned, doesn't mean that trafpol would just let it slide (see what I did there...) if they discovered it. The driver is still (rightly so) held accountable.