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Mar 11, 2009 15:43:44 GMT
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Bloody meddlers, making tyres less noisy.
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Mar 11, 2009 15:45:26 GMT
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I can't wait for the day I get run over by a silent electric car making no road noise from it's silent tyres... In the mean time,... can we put in a request that they are stretchable, what with them doing a whole load of new research....
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Last Edit: Mar 11, 2009 15:45:43 GMT by HoTWire
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stealthstylz
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EU Meddling with Tyresstealthstylz
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Mar 11, 2009 16:02:40 GMT
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I can't wait for the day I get run over by a silent electric car making no road noise from it's silent tyres... Imagine the noises you could replace them with though. You could have external speakers that blasted your favourite music / political speeches out. Instead of tuning cars to go fast people will turn to making the loudest speaker system so that people can hear of their individualism. Matt
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Mar 11, 2009 16:04:22 GMT
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I can't wait for the day I get run over by a silent electric car making no road noise from it's silent tyres... In the mean time,... can we put in a request that they are stretchable, what with them doing a whole load of new research.... Ha! 'After increased government lobbying from the members of RetroRides for justice, ministers have made a commitment that under new legislation a 165 profile will legally stretch onto a 9 inch rim...' On a serious note, one of my neighbours has a Prius, and the frigger was that quiet he nearly ran me over when I was putting the recycling out! If anything they need to be made noisier! If a pensioner has a coronary when a car happens to be driving past, obviously the cause is the noise from the tyres, not the fact he was chainsmoking alcoholic...
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Mar 11, 2009 16:11:51 GMT
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I can't wait for the day I get run over by a silent electric car making no road noise from it's silent tyres... Imagine the noises you could replace them with though. You could have external speakers that blasted your favourite music / political speeches out. Instead of tuning cars to go fast people will turn to making the loudest speaker system so that people can hear of their individualism. Matt Considering most 7 year olds in my area like ot walk around with their phones blasting music it's only likely they'll be wanting the same from their cars in ten years time. Would certainly like my mud tyres to be quieter, but I doubt that's going to happen with any amount of research.
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Mar 11, 2009 16:12:32 GMT
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'Anti-noise campaigners have welcomed the move but question why it needs to take so long for the regulations to be come into full effect. '
I take it they wrote that down as speaking would be highly hypocritical!
The story has the title 'Law aims to provide safer tyres' however they go on to talk about tyre noise? Wtf?
Which idiot wrote that story?
And this Mary Stevens woman really needs to get down to researching real issues like reduction in tyre performance due to compromising for low noise, not extremely convoluted research into how road noise specifically causes heart attacks.
In the winge bin it goes!
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Mar 11, 2009 17:31:38 GMT
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How stupid. Surely grip is more important than noise as far as safety goes? How the hell can a bit of tyre slap cause a heart attack?
This really is one of the stupidest things I've seen in the news recently.
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I forgot how to retro...
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Mar 11, 2009 17:51:06 GMT
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How stupid. Surely grip is more important than noise as far as safety goes? You can just imagine it cant you... "Well my car slipping straight off the road due to lack of grip, but at least the tyres were quiet when it happened" ;D
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Mar 11, 2009 17:52:07 GMT
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Tyres can be bloody noisy, especially if the road surface is made from concrete.
Aslong as there isnt any detrimental effect on grip and they don't ban the old style tyres and enable them to be replaced though natural wastage I think it could be a good idea.
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Mar 11, 2009 18:45:44 GMT
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What about crossply's?
Seriously though, except IN my car, on a bad motoway surface i don't think ive ever noticed hearing a tyre in my life. Not in my car, or from passing cars. Not unless they were squeeling or sliding.
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Mar 11, 2009 18:50:17 GMT
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Maybe if people weren't tearing around at 45+ in the 30 zones there wouldn't be any call for this. It's 30 for various reasons, noise being one of them. Tyres are practically silent at 30 and below.
Rant over.
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Mar 11, 2009 19:22:21 GMT
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What about crossply's? Seriously though, except IN my car, on a bad motoway surface I don't think ive ever noticed hearing a tyre in my life. Not in my car, or from passing cars. Not unless they were squeeling or sliding. Well, whenever you hear "road noise", especially from afar, it's really tyre noise (assuming we're talking about motorway or national speed limit zones). You very rarely, I find hear an engine over tyres on a car, other than diesel vans, lorrys and maybe the likes of scoobies. In fact, in very few cars can you hear the engine over the tyres once you get up to a decent speed, assuming you're not revving the guts out of it..
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Mar 11, 2009 19:33:41 GMT
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lets face it the only tyres that sting ya years are when u get summut like a Porka 4x4 thing doing 50 odd mph! Even then it's no big deal! LIke said above, Most noise is from speeding motorists
I assume i'll be pushed into buying these for my car aswell in years to come when i cant go down my local backstreet tyre dealer and buy his cheapest "dieyungs"? Damn, nice quiet rubber shame i done hear mine anyway over the 19 year old diesel engine clatter! lol
If ya heart is in such a state car tyres can make u have heart attack there is summut wrong. So what they're saying is if tyres can do this the first clap on thunder in spring and they're dead? They don't have come out with some rubbish to get the sheep like eco "followers" do climb aboard the bandwagon!
Cant see my company buying into this either! Re-mould BANDVULCS all the way.
Talking of which i assume these will be much quieter when they blow out too? Cause the other day a lorry blew out about 500 yards from me and i hit the deck (well i was in Coventry could have been anything)
So will it be brakes next? I'd like to know cause the groved and vented discs on the missus car can be pretty vocal (more of a light roar infact) under heaving braking!
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Mar 11, 2009 20:32:55 GMT
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"Research done in London found a real link between traffic noise and the risk of a heart attack "
London, that place which not only has lots of tyre noise but generally higher stress levels?
Of course thats nothing to do with it. its the tyre noise.
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Mar 11, 2009 20:35:32 GMT
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I either read it or got told it that they were having to make electric cars "noisy" as pedestrians etc wouldnt be able to hear them!
come on I remember as a kid putting stripps of plastic taped to the frame of my bike running into the spokes to make a nice sound. It appears some where that they are doing the same to electric mobiles a similar thing.
adding to this shouldnt they also make the roads less noisy? like when I am on the south part of the M25 when it moves! depending if you are on the tarmac or concrete sections the road noise is different!!
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Mar 11, 2009 20:47:05 GMT
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surely the road noise in London is pretty miniscule with the constant traffic jams they rave on about?
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Mar 11, 2009 20:59:30 GMT
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I think it's high time this is done. They've banned peanuts on aeroplanes after all!
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Mar 11, 2009 21:01:42 GMT
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What's next? Ban chicks with big hooters? They can cause heart attacks.... and empty bank accounts....
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Mar 11, 2009 22:03:14 GMT
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I think tyre stretching should be compulsory as it is good for the planet.
Narrower the tyre, less rubber it uses, less oil is needed for the manufacture, and if scrapped, the landfill footprint is smaller.
All good for the planet.
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