Help! no road hazard on new car

Enough for some nice Irish coffees....

 

Now if my memory serves me right, the inside of a tubeless tyre was nowhere near as smooth as the tubed equivalent. This was considered liable to puncture the inner tube if one was retro fitted and I don't know if that has changed.

 

Yes, probably. I think they gave several reasons - possibly it wasn't as critical because the old cross-ply tyres didn't last as long as a good steel belted radial - they also said there was more flex in the sidewalls of a radial - plus, they were getting toward lower profile tyres, though not as low as some nowdays.

 

The next time you are in a tire story, LOOK at the inside of a few tires. There isn't THAT much difference.
AND.....some rims still require a tube, or at least at one time they did, and since NOBODY is making "tubed" tires anymore.............

 

You have been in a tire store in the UK?

 

I have been in the UK......but don't remember inspecting any tires while there.
Tires are tires.

 

In the 70s there were many cars around with tubed radial tyres and with tubeless tyres with tubes in. One issue with putting a tube in a tubeless tyre was getting all the air out from between the outside of the tube and the inside of the tyre casing as the tyre would seal on the rim as the tube expanded trapping air between them. Another issue was balancing, it was notoriously difficult to balance a tubeless tyre with a tube in back then.

 

There you go.

 

Even the wise ones listen when Mendel advises.

 

There, tires are tyres.

 

When the spellchecker's out to get ya, you're doomed. Unless you're really tyred!

 

A tre is a tire is a tre is a tire...

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I wondered if quotes work: "tyres"
apparently not

 

I have used t-y-res.

 

It does with Google keyboard on Android 7.0 or just the fickle finger of fate.