September 2024
Halfords is advertising on their site that 'Worn tyres wreck lives' pointing to records of Dangerous Driving' convictions. I am not sure if this record of around 5000 convictions in the DD category is down to worn tyres or it is just DD in general.
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I went to replace the front brake pads and brake disks on my car for the first time since buying it.
The bottom bolt is standard hexagonal head and the top bolt is a completely round head. I thought the top bolt was damaged, so i checked the bolts on the other caliper and they are exactly the same, hexagonal head on the bottom bolt and the top bolt is completely round.... Read more
Hi,
Thanks for your advice. Yes it was a sliding pivot pin. I never seen one of them before.
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I had a look at the report of the single incident you link to. The tyre in that incident was over 18 years old, so its failure doesn't provide any support for your implication that 10 years is too old on a commercial vehicle.
Its unclear what the evidence was that age caused the failure, and it may have just been assumed, because the tyre was so old. ...