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what's dangerous????
I mean how often do you hear about some horrible story where the cause of anything really dangerous happening to a car resulted from having stretched tires?
Originally Posted by Chris@Fortune
Best I can figure this mentality mostly stems from not understanding it.
I guess just thinking that a tire is rated to hand a certain amount of stress, and stretching it, to me, sounds like you're pushing it beyond it's structural limit.
I've never heard of an accident occurring from stretched tires, but like I said above, just makes sense that the tire is weaker from stretching.
Yeah they do look nice. Looks expensive as hell to do right though.
yeah....that'd be the only way that i would ever do one, is if it was done right, and i'll never drop that kind of money on practically a brand new luxury car, nor will i ever have it....lol, therefor, ill just look with my jaw dropped
thats why you dont buy a brand new luxury car..you can build a UFC10/11 for cheap..its a Toyota its not built like shit...vip kits arent hide to find for cheap..wheel fitment is the key to the hole thing..alot of VIP rides are on Air Runner anyways..so parked they can be damn near touchin the ground..but as soon as the start the car they car will rise to a decent drivin level..atleast this is one method i have seen done in Japan when i was there.
thats why you dont buy a brand new luxury car..you can build a UFC10/11 for cheap..its a Toyota its not built like shit...vip kits arent hide to find for cheap..wheel fitment is the key to the hole thing..alot of VIP rides are on Air Runner anyways..so parked they can be damn near touchin the ground..but as soon as the start the car they car will rise to a decent drivin level..atleast this is one method i have seen done in Japan when i was there.
I guess just thinking that a tire is rated to hand a certain amount of stress, and stretching it, to me, sounds like you're pushing it beyond it's structural limit.
I've never heard of an accident occurring from stretched tires, but like I said above, just makes sense that the tire is weaker from stretching.
Well I guess you should contact Falken and tell them all about it. Seeing as they "promote" stretching their tires. Hell they even have a tire targeted at people who stretch tires. They go so far as to claim their tires stretch the best (and it's actually true, they do).