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Old 01-31-2008, 07:06 PM   #5 (permalink)
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I'm not stepping on your toes either so don't take offense, I'm just stating my point of view.

I've seen people unintentionally under inflate their tires too much, causing them to heat up so badly that they shred apart into pieces, and I've also seen people under inflate intentionally and have the tire separate from the rim while rock crawling or off-roading.

I've also seen a person (my dad) inflate tires so much they blow up, but those were bike tires and he used the "squeeze the tire to check the pressure" gauge. That's not reliable at all

I'm not sure that over-inflating will do enough for an Ecomodder to cause them to flip or do badly enough around the turns to take effect. I take turns to where my rear suspension bottoms out (old rear shocks, front ones I replaced, waiting on funds) and I'm not near flipping.

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Reduced contact with the pavement will hurt the performance of the braking system, the ability to corner and even the ability to accelerate sharply on some cars, all of which are needed in order to drive safely.
Not to be mean, but don't most ecomodders try and use the brakes as minimal as possible? in emergency braking cases, I could understand if overinflated TOO much, but inflating to the MAX pressure on the tire sidewall shouldn't hurt it too much, and we ecomodders drive slow in the first place, and are trying to be more alert to traffic ahead to adjust for optimum fuel economy.

As for the accelerating quickly part, those vehicles are usually bad on FE to begin with, sports cars mainly. If your driving a GEO I don't think that in any way your accelerations will be very quick. at least compared to vehicles with engine's twice their size.

I understand your concern for safety over fuel economy. I don't think tires are one of the most major concerns. they safety parts come into play only when it is raining, sleeting, snowing, or hailing. but once again we econuts drive more cautiously in bad weather, I use it as an excuse to go slow and pile up traffic behind me. In my mind I see them saying oh, it's fine he's going slow because of the weather ^_^". The ones in a hurry pass me, the content ones drive behind.

Things that I do worry with safety is mirror removal, or removal of devices that make us Aware of who's around us and what's going on. these mods make us less aware in that we now have large blind spots if we're in a high traffic area. I use my drivers side mirror all the time, because I'm in the right lane (so the grass on the right of the road isn't appealing) and I don't trust the middle mirror anymore because it's always shaking and stuff from the sub's and the crappy roads. And I almost hit a fellow Jeeper because I didn't see him on my left rear fender, and attempted a left had turn. I heard the squeal of his brakes. Middle mirrors aren't too good at looking out the left windows, especially if you have other rear passengers, even if it is panoramic.

I don't remove my spare tire for fix-a-flat's either, because I know that when one of my tires do go (trust me, they've taken more abuse than any tires I've EVER seen) It'll shred into pieces, and those fix-a-flat's won't work on a non-existing tire..

Go test some things out yourself, if you don't feel safe, DON'T GO THROUGH WITH IT. Happy ecomodding
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