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General Car Related Discussion.To discuss anything that is related to cars and automotive technology that doesnt naturally fit into another forum catagory.
Exceedingly dodgy. The sidewall has no flex left in it. Drifters use a degree of stretch as the reduced sidewall flex makes it easier to brake traction and easy to do transitions between direction of drifts. To use stretched tyres to any degree on the road you have to be some sort of muppet.
theres vids on youtube of people spraying flammable liquid into them and lighting it to seat the bead. prob just pissing about tho
That is how alot of them have to do it. You need to burst the seat out to the bead instantly, because you can't get enough airflow in to do it otherwise.
they look mad and to much stretch for me BUT, there is no definitive evidence that stretched tires will fail any more than "normal" ones, as for the law there is no specific law against them but i am sure they could fine somthing else.
tire stretching has been going on since the 80s its nothing new, i like a little stretch but when the rim pokes out i think it looks wank.
They look fookin STUPID! I recon if you threw the car hard enough into a corner with them like that, the tyres would just slide off the lip of the wheel that holds the pressure in and pop!, You're Fucked!!!
They look fookin STUPID! I recon if you threw the car hard enough into a corner with them like that, the tyres would just slide off the lip of the wheel that holds the pressure in and pop!, You're Fucked!!!
There not as unsafe as they look, drifters in japan have been using stretched tires since the 80s and they take some abuse.
but would say something like: "it's so euro that it hurts man" and pish like that.
yeah or the usual line of "if your not in the scene you wont understand" while looking down upon anyone else who doesnt follow their scene. Quite common to have the up thier own arse attitude with the FAG scene. Sorry i meant VAG scene but you can see why i get confused, fag behaviour on a fag car called a VAG
Originally Posted by RS 5tu
they look mad and to much stretch for me BUT, there is no definitive evidence that stretched tires will fail any more than "normal" ones, as for the law there is no specific law against them but i am sure they could fine somthing else.
im sure there is no specific law too, but im sure you could get them under construction and use regulations and i bet the manufacturers would side with the police/CPS.
Just needs a first case to set a precedent.
I imagine when someone gets killed by a car with tyres like that then it might happen as the kid gets death by dangerous or similar and the CPS use a tyre expert to show the tyres were a contributry factor.
Will happen one day. Just the way the legal system happens it would probably take another decade to turn the outcome of a prosecution into a law.
23-04-2011, 03:43 PM
but you can see why i get confused, fag behaviour on a fag car called a VAG 
