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[perchie.girl]

No sir it's not safe but tires are so expensive and I think he means without causing an accident yet

I used to buy used tires... They cant sell them with out x amount of tred. about 1/3d price... Good for a year at least.

deb

 

[pennyJo1960]

When I traveled every week had to buy new was on the road so much thankfully made enough I could spend it there I know what you have done in the past so it was your choice to do the other called respect

 

[mixedUPturk]

I used to buy used tires... They cant sell them with out x amount of tred. about 1/3d price... Good for a year at least.

deb

Yes ma'am ive been doing that for years now . Except we drive too much and they only last about 3 months new ones last about a year. We have put about 75k miles on the vehicles each year. The current new ones came from my uncle as he traded in his old truck w my old tires n gave me the new ones he had jus bought or else there would be two old and two used new.

 

[drumstick diva]

I remember the old days when people used snow tires. But think they aren't allowed any more because they tote up the asphalt roads. Folks born & bred in snow country know how to drive on it. The ones that walk on the shoulder also know they will be purposely splashed from head to toe.

My son moved quite a distance away. When they get snow out there - people freak out. But he remembers his winter driving days here and he has retained that knowledge for when he visits here for the holidays.

 

[chickisoup]

I remember the old days when people used snow tires. But think they aren't allowed any more because they tear up the asphalt roads. Folks born & bred in snow country know how to drive on it.

My son moved quite a distance away. When they get snow out there - people freak out. But he remembers his winter driving days here and he has retained that knowledge for when he visits here for the holidays.

You are very fortunate he has such a good memory. Our first snow of the year it's like half the population has developed vehicular amnesia!
They drive like idiots!!! No kidding, the first five minutes of the local news last night was loaded with idiot accident reports.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Want idiots in snow come out here in snow the world stops turning have always had good quality all season tires but admit loved goofing when young in my bug with great big truck tires on it but did know how to drive and haul my 450F, 30 foot trailer and utility trailer behind that in all weather

 

[bobbi-j]

The idiots that scare me are the, “I have 4 wheel drive so I can go fast on the ice roads” idiots. They apparently don’t think about, “What if I need to stop in as short a distance as possible?”

We also get our own special kind of “Citiots” out here during hunting season. On Saturday DH was hauling a load of beans to town. Some citiot hunter pulling a trailer with his ATV pulled out in front of him. DH had to stand in the brakes and still came too close for comfort. He ended up following the guy into town. The citiot turned into the local bait shop which happens to be right next to the grain elevator. DH said he followed the guy into the parking lot and gave him a piece of his mind, explaining that a loaded truck can’t just stop on a dime and ended with, “You ever do that again, and I’m just gonna run into you!” (He wouldn’t because he’d be liable, but he was pretty upset, and probably a bit shook up.)

 

[pennyJo1960]

Okay I admit use to drive out after the first snow of the year just to see the idiots with 4 wheel drives in the ditch and laugh at them

 

[sourland]

Okay I admit use to drive out after the first snow of the year just to see the idiots with 4 wheel drives in the ditch and laugh at them

The neighbor who plows my drive and most of the neighborhood likes to drive by on his tractor and wave to them. After all the drives are plowed, he will go back and pull them out.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Had a 250F back then 4 wheel but never went in the ditch towed a few out laughing had 150 lbs of bagged gravel for grip in the back on each wheel