Not afraid to put my hands up and admit I've been foolish if it makes people stop and take notice. The purpose of a mistake is you learn from it. I suggest you DON'T make this mistake. I was going 25mph when this happen. Moments earlier it was 70mph....
Anyway, my car had "rested" for 11 years and as usual the very first thing I do instinctively is buy the best tyres I can find. Unfortunately I could only get 3 of the excellent Vredestein Sprint classics, so as the fronts were worn out and the rears OK, I had the front two fitted and they were fine. The rears looked perfect and had loads of tread on them. Big mistake.
Now here in Switzerland you absolutely must fit the recommended grade or better in my case 185HR14. Now a common way of getting around this for classics is to fit M+S or mud and snow tyres which exempt you from all but the load rating. These are what I had at the rear. And the combination of old plus crappy resulted in the picture below. The 3500 shredded them.
Fortunately both car and driver are OK. So basically the law is an ass here. I would have been much better if I'd have had 185SR14s which can be had cheaply and easily and are more than up to the task as I don't go above the speed limit (120kph) and the P6 is a pretty light car by modern standards.
As a further note I had to press into service the original Avon spare tyre because it's all I had - unbelievably smooth and quiet! Oh and I had 4 wheel nuts the right size for my brace and one larger and I stopped by a coffin factory! Not today Mr. Reaper. Laters...
Anyway, my car had "rested" for 11 years and as usual the very first thing I do instinctively is buy the best tyres I can find. Unfortunately I could only get 3 of the excellent Vredestein Sprint classics, so as the fronts were worn out and the rears OK, I had the front two fitted and they were fine. The rears looked perfect and had loads of tread on them. Big mistake.
Now here in Switzerland you absolutely must fit the recommended grade or better in my case 185HR14. Now a common way of getting around this for classics is to fit M+S or mud and snow tyres which exempt you from all but the load rating. These are what I had at the rear. And the combination of old plus crappy resulted in the picture below. The 3500 shredded them.
Fortunately both car and driver are OK. So basically the law is an ass here. I would have been much better if I'd have had 185SR14s which can be had cheaply and easily and are more than up to the task as I don't go above the speed limit (120kph) and the P6 is a pretty light car by modern standards.
As a further note I had to press into service the original Avon spare tyre because it's all I had - unbelievably smooth and quiet! Oh and I had 4 wheel nuts the right size for my brace and one larger and I stopped by a coffin factory! Not today Mr. Reaper. Laters...
