SJR
Member Since: 09 Aug 2006
Location: East Manchester
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I often find that tyre squeal gets worse the longer we go without rain, not really had much for a while now, and the roads are totally bone dry and full of rubber, need a good hard downpour to get rid of all the muck on the roads, the problem usually disappears then  I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
Buzz Aldrin (1930 -
Last edited by SJR on 13th Oct 2009 4:32 pm. Edited 1 time in total
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stapldm
Member Since: 11 Sep 2006
Location: Swine Town
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As SJR, I've found that the drier it is, the more squeal, and in a multi-storey, the middle floors rarely get wet. If you're going to be properly sad, then you should sit and wait for 10 permanent four wheel drive vehicles to pass; I'm sure the 4 driven wheels changes the dynamic and IMHO squeals more. I also agree with the earlier comments that the sound gets more pronounced as the tyres wear as even in a dry concrete car park I get zero squeal on nearly new rubber.
It's normal as far as I know; just think of it as a warning to the pedestrians that a 3 tonne vehicle is on the move; they'll get more warning than from a hybrid Dr. Ian Malcolm:
"Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
Transgenic tomato anyone?
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| 13th Oct 2009 4:31 pm |
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ThatMartinChap
Member Since: 06 Nov 2007
Location: Deepest Darkest Berkshire
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thanks guys - cars in next week for some recall work so I wanted to add any other items to the list. It sounds like this is nothing to worry about...
and yes stapldm - I'll consider it a public service. Also Gone : MY14 D4 SDV6 HSE : Barolo Black + Almond
Sadly Gone : MY08 D3 TDV6 HSE : Stornoway + Alpaca + Privacy + BAS Remap
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| 13th Oct 2009 8:08 pm |
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90BHP
Member Since: 18 Oct 2006
Location: Half way along the road on the right
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My Scorpion Zeros squeeled really badly on any corners over the last couple of weeks. they were down to 2mm and quite frankly I could live with the noise, but the handling was  terrible !!
Now on New Scorpion ATR's - very pleased so far "To finish first, one first has to finish ...."
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| 13th Oct 2009 9:01 pm |
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