[CapriRacer]

Originally Posted by freebeard

That's opposite to Youtube, which wants me to watch more and more of the same thing. Here're two more

Best tyre pressures for extended life, boosted safety & maximum grip | Auto Expert John Cadogan
I got bored by this one with it's three-minute commercial, but it has Auto Expert right in the title.

AVOID These 5 Tire Brands (And 10 That Actually Lasted 60,000+ Miles)
Summary at https://youtu.be/KFsRaImfVBo?t=1929. I liked this one better -- the AI narration is listenable at 2X and it's data driven.

I like the cost-per-mile, but I don't know if the figures were normalized for tire size (and surely assumed four tires in all. ).
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Back in my Beetle era, I ran staggered sizes (145 and 165/15s) for the weight bias, and fine tuned with staggered tire pressure.

I watched both videos.


The first one was a lot of talking, but not a lot of good info. It was mostly an advertisement for flashlights.

The second was clearly AI generated and suffered from the usual AI problem - made up stuff that sounds legit. For example: 7 belt layers? Read your sidewall. Normal steel belted radial tires use 2 steel belts. There might be cap plies, but anyone who works in the industry knows cap plies are not belt layers - and at most you'll have 3 cap plies for a 180 mph tire, not an all terrain they were talking about.

And all these tire experts? Why don't they live in places where the tire manufacturers are- Boston, Seattle? Why not Akron, or Greenville?