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Re: Tread wear during spin on wet road

Ed Phillips ([email protected])
Wed, 9 Sep 1998 19:54:12 -0400 (EDT)

Let's see, he admits to spinning for 750 feet on a wet surface which he was traveling at 60 + MPH and then wants to blame the tires? Wet surfaces, that would contribute to a loss of control, would also diminsh the resistance of the tires against the roadway, thereby minimizing the abrading effect. I doubt event with ABS you'd see uniform reduction of tread, and to the amount described. I recall doing a computation in a Physics class which indicated a rolling tire reduces it's tread by about a molecules width for each revolution.

Ed
Ed Phillips
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