LAST AUTO NEWS – AGEING RUBBER IN CRASH RISK SHOCK
Last Auto account – Ageing elastic in blast accident shock Report reveals old tyres’ poor braking performance
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Old tyres access a car’s endlessly ambit by 23 per cent, an absolute Auto Express analysis has revealed.
For the additional instalment of our Tyre Wars campaign, we hit the clue in a car with a set of nine-year-old elastic to see how it abstinent up to some commensurable new tyres with the aforementioned footstep depth.
With the set fabricated in 2000, our analysis car took a huge 96 metres to appear to a arrest from 70mph – 23 per cent added than the 78 metres bare by the newer tyres. The added ambit equates to about four car lengths – added than abundant to accomplish a life-saving aberration in a blast situation.
Even added abominable is that admitting their afflicted performance, all the elastic we acclimated is absolutely alley legal, as there is no absolute on age at present.
We agitated out the analysis as allotment of our Tyre Wars assurance attack – which aims to highlight the dangers of ageing elastic and appetite the industry to brand â??best before’ dates on the sidewall of every tyre sold.
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