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On 2025-12-20 09:56, c186282 wrote:
> On 12/19/25 09:46, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>> On 2025-12-19 07:55, Char Jackson wrote:
>>> On 19 Dec 2025 03:24:33 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 18 Dec 2025 23:07:00 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I just switch the front wheels to the rear, and the rear to the front,
>>>>> at about 30000 Km, ? of life. The front wheels get more worn out than
>>>>> the rear, so I have to do that trick so that the four do last. The
>>>>> mechanic doesn't like it, but I know my way of driving
>>>>
>>>> The Toyota maintenance schedule is to rotate the tires every 5000 
>>>> miles.
>>>> When I switch to studs in the winter I mark the LF, LR, RF, and RR 
>>>> tires
>>>> and in the spring put the LF on the LR etc and call it good enough. I
>>>> still don't get 90k km.
>>>
>>> 90,000 km is only a little over 55,000 miles. I got 85,000 miles from
>>> the factory stock tires on my car, and I replaced those with tires that
>>> had an 80,000 mile warranty. I'm almost certain I'll be selling that car
>>> long before I can wear out the current set.
>>>
>>> On my pickup, I replaced the factory tires at 26,000 miles, but I
>>> replaced them because they were 10 years old, not because the tread was
>>> worn.
>>
>> Some rubber last long. This is an Opel Corsa with the factory 
>> Continental rubbers.
> 
> 
>    Rubber, even quality rubber, EVENTUALLY goes stiff
>    and rots. It's chemistry.
> 

Yes. This is what the mechanic checked at the last revision (less than a 
year ago).

>    Spend just a LITTLE more money on 'quality' and
>    you buy a LOT more slack.

For some reason, I was using at my fifties some boots that were bought 
when I was a teenager. Size was correct, soles had their crests and 
valleys, not much used, but little actual grip. I finally threw them away.

About then or earlier I bough some good boots for mountain sports. I 
think I actually used them 4 times over the years, but the last time, 
the sole got unglued from the rest of the boot, on both boots, like a 
gaping mouth, at the start of the trek. The boots were not even ten 
years old, maybe 6. The rubber was still soft, but the boots were 
garbage material. Fault of the glue, or one intermediate layer that 
decomposed.


-- 
Cheers, Carlos.
ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;

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    Re: Wheels rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-19 03:24 +0000
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