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if you have ever faced a blowout or tire separation at highway spds, you might reconsider over inflation
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Oh you mean YOUR highway speeds. If you're actually going the speed limit or slightly less it's just like Frankly says: "flap flap flap flap.....oh... I've got a flat." This just happened to me recently and coincidentally I was listening to Car Talk on NPR when it happened
. I wouldn't advocate people to do things that make them feel unsafe, but I would advocate for people to gain perspective on what is and isn't safe - put your idea of safeness to the test every once and a while.
I just got both my cars inspected and I was running some junkyard tires on one of them - unacceptable to the inspector. So I just throw a couple of other, better looking junkyard tires on and it passed. I personally love recovering perfectly good stuff from being wastefully destroyed and embrace the recycle, reduce, reuse ethic. I'm glad I've got the personal patience enough to calmly change a tire when it blows out. There's something very cool calm and collected about most of the things I've learned here and practiced on the road - a zen feeling I never ever got before.