Pints? Who uses such mediaeval measures nowadays, pray...? Do you pay the stalwart fuel-monger in groats, perchance?
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I don't understand many foreign languages and metric is one of them. I grew up with the imperial sytem and still think in gallons (not litres) = £'s (not francs). I never fill my tank with litres, i fill it with money. Spilling a couple of pints (not litres) of petrol may equal a loss of a few miles (not kilometers) so my overall average MPG (not KPL) has increased.
Now! where did i put my St Christopher?
Yes, me too. Us old guys were lucky enough to learn the good old Imperial System before all the foreigners started mucking about and changing everything.
Similar here but it was Imperial all through school then metric at college so I get the best or worst of both worlds.
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I cant remember when I started using metric - I left school in 77 and went to Redhill Technical College (Beer training school more like!!) I can fairly easily change from one to other but still prefer pints/MPG/MPH whilst I understand kph etc all i do is sit and translate back to old money. You seem to get other things changed 0 - 60 is 0 - 100kph - then we have shoe sizes arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh it goes on
the strangest is weather reporting, temperatures in metric and wind speed in imperial
or pubs - where beer in measured in pints but wines and spirits are measured in millilitres...
Wine in pints is good :beer:
I am conversant in imperial and metric. As an Engineer, metric is far superior and far less prone to errors when performing calculations. I still prefer to buy balsa wood in imperial though, and I think altitudes in feet.
Anyway, on the subject of tyres:
Tramlining is the result of stiffer side walls. Stiffer sidewalls give superior turn-in, stability and predictability in corners. The trade off is tramlining on bad surfaces, increased harshness and increased noise.
Anyway, on the subject of tyres:
Tramlining is the result of stiffer side walls. Stiffer sidewalls give superior turn-in, stability and predictability in corners. The trade off is tramlining on bad surfaces, increased harshness and increased noise.
But also the result of older tyres losing their 'pliability' - or so I have been informed.
Other consequences might also be uneven or premature tyre wear.
As I mentioned earlier, as set of tyres that had been left on the car while it was standing during the winter months - outdoors - were rendered unusable as a result. One of the tyres virtually came apart as the plastic polymer had 'petrified' at different rates around the circumference and across the tread width...
This damage was not the result of rubbing against anything on the car, but normal driving on the road.
...and here you can see the area of 'wear' is deeper at the circled spot than elsewhere on the tyre, suggesting the 'petrification' was more pronounced here than elsewhere - possibly where the tyre was in contact with the ground when parked-up.
Yes that's quite correct, tramlining can be the result of a failure of the tyre itself.
Best to buy sticky tyres rather than long-life ones and use the treads up nice and quickly. You'll be much safer all round!
Best to buy sticky tyres rather than long-life ones and use the treads up nice and quickly. You'll be much safer all round!
I've got the normal Corsa thingies on - all you seem to get in 215's
seem ok - bit numb going straight but loaded up seem quite informative - not quite as loaded as my Puma but good none the less
john
seem ok - bit numb going straight but loaded up seem quite informative - not quite as loaded as my Puma but good none the less
john
I have to admitt i do prefer metric if measuring stuff, as i can visualize a size in mm as oppossed to 4/8ths of an inch etc, but prefer my liquid in pints....
If you said 4/8" to me I'd have to admit I'd visualise half an inch
Same here, 4/8" = 1/2" but i'd have to get zeus out for the conversion
