<div dir="ltr">I feel much safer with tubes in my tubeless tires, especially on curves! <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 6:08 AM, Adriel Rowley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adriel_rowley@hotmail.com" target="_blank">adriel_rowley@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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</div>> From: <a href="mailto:dave@hallvw.clara.co.uk">dave@hallvw.clara.co.uk</a><br>
> To: <a href="mailto:type3@vwtype3.org">type3@vwtype3.org</a><br>
> Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 11:51:47 +0100<br>
> Subject: Re: [T3] Tyres<br>
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> If a tyre wall is badly crazed and crushed, and you believe it is badly<br>
> damaged, please don't take a chance with your car and your life by driving<br>
> on it. A tyre can 'blow out' even with a tube fitted if the wall gives way.<br>
</div>> It isn't just my life, but now also the Service Dog I have had almost four years. She is the reason I can be in the Master's of Architecture! So I can't loose her! She also loves the Square back, too.<br>
If it blows out, the tube is of no use, even a hundred feet to pull to a safe spot?<br>
<div class="">> If the tyre walls are crazed, that's not a problem unless the cracks are<br>
> deep enough to see the fabric (applies to cracks in the tread too). The<br>
> tyre walls are what support the car, not the tread. The tread is there to<br>
> clear water away and improve grip on mud and snow. Racing car tyres for use<br>
> in the dry have no tread (slicks), but simply a thick, smooth layer of<br>
> rubber.<br>
</div>> I was told any crazing is bad, but good to hear where the tyre must be tossed. I can tell you the worst is no more than a couple millimeters at most and just where it creased.<br>
I understand the side wall does support. Thus why it bulges and if too much it's unsafe. I found the tires got low enough that the beads came unseated. I found it because I put soap water on the tyres before airing up.<br>
<div class="">> Check the inside walls too - they don't get the sun, but can be damaged by<br>
> stones etc.<br>
</div>> Interesting! Good to know! So if going on gravel reduce pressure a tad?<br>
<div class="">> I used to run 'tubeless' radials on my Beetle with tubes, as it doesn't have<br>
> the 'humped' safety rims of the later cars. I've also had tubes put in a<br>
> repaired Golf (Rabbit) tyre after being punctured with a nail, without<br>
> problems, though I think the repair would have been enough anyway.<br>
</div>> So one isn't supposed to run radials on non safety rims? Dad has driven thousands of miles this way! Though never drove over 45MPH even when traffic was going over 70MPH!<br>
Good to know that experience says tubes can be run. Further, it states for radials.<br>
<div class="">> If the tyres are just to support the car while it is out of use, anything<br>
> that holds air is OK, but for driving you need safe tyres (even if you spell<br>
> them t-i-r-e-s!).<br>
</div>> I figure if low speed short jaunts and I check them often, shouldn't it be safe?<br>
There was a tread about tires, and since I wasn't in my creative ability, just used tyre! ;p<br>
It was Webster and his dictionary that created American English language in the then anti-British furver. So not really our fault! ;p<br>
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Thank you so very much!Adriel<br>
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