Category: Reifen & Felgen Forum

Hello Have here 2 Fulda Carat Progresso, DOT 0610 in size 195/60 R 14. These were mounted on the HA in May 2010 and then driven again in 2011 on the HA, 2012 then on the VA. Running performance about 30,000 km rather less. The tires now show clear cracks and are totally hard, tend to saw tooth formation and generate noise while driving in curves as well as while braking. The tyre dealer wants to leave the tires at Fulda at the end of the week. he was surprised himself, how porous/cracky the tires are already. Here are some pictures. Has someone already made similar experiences with Fulda tires ? Greeting Ronny

Does anyone know exactly how that works with this crazy snow chain release? So what I’ve read so far there are some from the manufacturer of the vehicle and which from the chain manufacturers. The car manufacturers, however, are somehow extremely stupid to have the feeling. One reads for example very often this with older VW and Audi, i.e. also with my, chains are only allowed with rims up to 6J. But this is probably the most senseless reference that one can look for. te. I find the thickest tires for 6J rims and pack the chains with the thickest limbs on it and for that I have a clearance but for appropriate tires and a fine link chain that needs little space I get no clearance because the rim, whose pure width so without ET and tires still says nothing about the space for the chain, ne 6.5 or 7J is one the car where you can not get anywhere else or chains are not mandatory anymore? Unprobably that I ever welc he will need, but I’m interested in that. Do you really have to buy extra mini rims so that you can still make snow chains on older cars or can you also after the approval of the chain manufacturers, which at least already depends on tyre dimensions and not on Voodoo over the rim width? Or can you also get e.g. with the TÜV ne wheel chain combination after demonstration or something like that? What would the consequences simply be without the approval to drive if now it just Just fits?

Hello, this year for our Peugeot 406er 1,9TD 90 HP bought the Dunlop Wintersport 3D in 195/65/15 size, by car is mostly short distance driven, but also 100km highway per month. The tire has production date November 2009. The tire wear is uniform to the whole width : 2mm and that after 2600km!!!! I will measure again tomorrow, but if that is true, is such a tire wear normal? Or does that calm down? If the wear on The DUNLOP will be through soon, or at the end.

From another forum and allegedly from Autobild: Quotation: The much-quoted “7-degree fairy tale”, which has been used by the tire industry for a few years for targeted disinformation, is unfortunately hardly to be eradicated. The argument of the tire manufacturers reads as follows: Even if there is no snow, winter tyres are better, because already below +7C a summer tire is hard and therefore on wet or dry road is worse than a winter tire. car photo has tested and the summer tyre was better than the winter tyres in winter: brake routes from 100km/h with wet roadway: summer tyres: 49.3 m best winter tyres: 54.4 m brake routes from 100km/h with dry roadway: summer tyres: 38.7 m best winter tyres: 45.6 m”Best brake tyres on dry and wet roadside are the summer tyres with a clear distance. On grippy asphalt The soft, laminated running surface of the winter tires becomes a handicap, especially at temperatures above freezing point.” “Surprise: When it comes to the disciplines handling and braking (wet and dry), all winter candidates draw the shorter compared to a summer tire. A sign for the quite one-sided black and white design for snow. It is easy to understand that they have a look on dry asphalt – the less stable profile blocks cannot be enough H The fact that they cannot pass the water to the summer candidate on scattered, wet (i.e. smoother) roads is not a good testimony. The sport-oriented driver should remember this and not overestimate his winter tires in this respect.” If so, aren’t winter tires more likely to be a risk in mild winters?

I am on my way home Sunday morning at 6 am, only drive through a longer construction site with traffic lights. Then it is two-lane again and drive into a village. Exactly at the place sign was a heel of 3.5cm between new rough tar layer and the old tar ceiling. NO WARNSCHILD DORT!! Since it was dark and wet it was not seen at all. I had unlying (only) 50 km/h on the clock, and it made 2 huge blows. After that all rims have now got a blow away. 18″ rims were, the tire was not very high at 225/40. My question: Can I display this construction company and claim compensation, or did I have a pech now?? It can’t be that you drive home from the disco and then you come home without guilt with 4 broken rims.

Hello, with this direction indicator there should be a small arrow on the ripe one, which points in the direction in which the mature one is to walk forward. What I don’t understand now… if the arrow points forward, for example, when it is ripe at the bottom, it shows exactly in the other direction, if the wheel moves on half a turn. how do you know now which direction is the right one? I know, is a total noob question, but maybe also with one or a change in the direction “what they always wanted to know about mature, but…” would be grateful for a doubtless answer.

Servus, bought me an annual car two weeks ago. At the delivery he was already on winter bikes, test drive was still on summer tyres. That the rim on the front right had a small close fight with the board stone I saw before, I thought ok… will surely have some time also a small rempler with the board stone. But what I missed completely and only just noticed when I took a look at the summer tires in the garage: over the tracks the rim is missing a piece of tire! I can’t explain how I (despite a certain nervousness, but I didn’t miss the scratched in the rim) could miss it, but well… now it’s just there. I just took a picture of it: Link Now I have a few questions before I bring the tire to the independent tyre dealer tomorrow: Can the missing material at this point mean a danger for me and my fellows? If the rim is missing a piece of tire! Is it possible that the car has no defects in the purchase contract? Or am I the idiot because I didn’t see it before the signing of the contract? And by the way: Should the optical defects at the rim disturb me: Does a rim doctor get rid of such a thing with polished aluminums to some extent successfully or can I only exchange the rims? Greetings Schempi

Which of you really stand your car in snow? I mean not the days when you wake up in the morning and because of snow spontaneously decide not to go to IKEA for shopping, but to leave the box in the garage. NO! I mean the situations in which you (with summer tires) are on the way and it starts to snow. Who really drives to the next resting place and waits until the road is snow free again or calls a taxi or the like! Only such consistently acting people do without winter tires. I’m curious how many honest answers I get!

Hey guys, I have a few questions for the specs here I have a BMW 518i (E34), which makes about 50000Km in the year. I bought it only in April, and I drove the year over on winter tires……I know, you shouldn’t ……but you didn’t go any other way. Then I bought a 2nd set of aluminium rims, which I would like to ride with summer tires. At the time 235/45R17, but just quite drove off, the pellen. Since I am myself a mechanier…… truck department…. I know that one should not save too much on the tires. BUT, trozdem I pour some oil into the fire What do I have to spend for good tires at least??? My brother drives the Barum on an E39, and is also quite satisfied with it. Only I want to know from you if I can drive easily e.g. Barum, Roadstone etc., or if it must necessarily be Conti, Michelin etc. to be safe underwgs. To use: I drive 90% Danish road, which is limited to 80Km/h, and d The last 10% share the city and the highway, and I’m more likely to drive in the city. If the highway, this one is limited to max. 130Km/h. So long speech, short meaning???? What price-worthy summer tires can I unafraidly screw on in size 235/45R17??? Hope you know some

Hello everyone. My question refers to fuel consumption. What is better for it? I can raise the following tire sizes on my car 145/80R13 165/70R13 165/65R14 195/45R15 I think I can save on the 145ers and that better than with the wider ones. But now the new label irritates me. I have seen, for example, a Debica summer tire with the Note G on the 145ers and the same tire in the 165 series has received the Note E. I hope you understand my question I can only put such a thing bad in words.