03 odyssey

Greetings all,

I have a question about tires.

I have 42k on the van and was told by my mechanic that I will need tires
before the snow season.
I have already changed the original tires 2 years ago so I am getting about
20k pre set.
My 2nd set was Michelle Symmetry

It seems very low on milage, my Jimmy use to get 40k on a set.

Anyone know of a better tire?

TIA,
Dave-

 

i suggest you check this for yourself - read the tread depth.

 

I did the penny test as well as he showed me who low the tread was, and also
my mechanic does not sell tires or upsell or make extra money, between my
dad and myself he has 7 vehicles he works on so he gets plenty of work not
to upsell anything to us.
I also need to say my KIDS ride in the car and safety is 1st for them.

 

These are decent tires and should have lasted more than 20K miles.
What did your mechanic say about why these wore so quickly? Anything
about under inflated (inside and outside tread wears much faster than
center of tread) tires?

I've currently got Yokohama TRZ tires on my minivan. I run them at
about 37 psi front and 34 psi rear to maximize wear and mpg.

TTFN

 

people make mistakes - always do your own checking.

do you think trying to play that card here earns you sympathy or
credit??? just buy new tires. treat them right. learn to drive right.
then the tires will be fine.

 

Ever heard of "tire rotation"?
Ever heard of "proper inflation"?
Ever heard of "correct driving/braking"?

Learn how to take care of something, and it'll take care of you.

 

As far as the Ever heard of----
1st off its my wifes car
2nd tires are rotated as needed.
3rd i would guess that the LOF he tops my fluids so I would guess he check
the tires.

I know hy I left the newsgroups if some asks a question people are much too
harsh on there answers, your remarsk were way off line dude.
Ever heard ever heard ever heard, hey have you ever heard of being polite
and "talking" to someone rather than being nasty with comments?

 

Mechanic says that maybe the weight of the van could be an issue with quick
wear and tear.
tread seems to be an even wear.

most of the driving is local not to much highway mileage on the van.

 

as far as checking, sure everybody carrys a tire depth gauge in there car.

As far as the sympathy card, I was asking about better tires and was making
a statement that the kids are in the car and I want better tires.

So how am I suppose to drive right?
Its the first vechile I have had in 25 years of driving that the tires were
quickly.
I have had 5 cars since I started driving in 86, I got great milage out of
tires until this one.
It was also my fisrt import, all others were GM based and I got 40k out of a
set of tires.

most of the milage is local street driving, not to my highway mileage on
them.

 

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:59:49 +0000, xanth wrote:

What does that matter? Does she maintain it, or do you?

"As needed", huh? What does that mean, exactly? Do you follow the
owner's manual recommendations, or just do it when you feel like it?

You "guess", huh? What the **** is an "LOF"? If you're not checking the
tires yourself, it's not getting done.

Too harsh? You think my answers were way off line, eh? They were valid
questions to your stupid question, and quite polite, actually.

Take some fucking English lessons, pull your head out of your ass and take
care of your vehicle properly, and then.... **** off, asswipe.

 

it's "their". and i really can't believe you could have found yourself
having to leave before!!! not.

ask yourself this question: if everyone who can be bothered to respond
to your request for free expert advice behaves like an asshole, is it
because they really /are/ all assholes? or is it something /you/ did?
[rhetorical]

 

It's unfortunate that you've encountered the less-than-polite trolls
that lurk in this newsgroup. These people are, by and large, rude and
contentious. You are hardly the first to be treated this way.

Consider running the tires several PSI (start at +4 or so) over the
Honda recommended pressure. Many mileage conscious drivers do this (4
PSI over is nothing for these people!) and often report increased tire
life in addition to fractionally improved fuel economy. Start a tire
tread log when the new tires go on, and adjust pressure to maintain even
wear across the width of the tire.
(FWIW, my Accord needs ~39 PSI to wear evenly. The door-jamb
specification of 33PSI is just hopeless - the tire edges wear long
before the center.)

Front tire alignment is an other obvious thing to check. You can
perform a quick-and-dirty alignment test by applying a stripe of paint
or masking tape to the front tires, and driving straight ahead for a
mile or so. If the tires are scrubbing badly, you'll see uneven wear on
the indicator material.

-Moo!

 

Greg,
Thanks for your kind answer,

I will be going to the local tire store to start to price out tires next
weekend. and also keep a log.

It is a shame that people fly off the hook with some small returned
criticism.

Its not I am look for the great answer in life but a answer to why the tires
had such a small life span.

As far as the others I guess they have pleanty of free time to tinker with
their cars.
I bearly get 2 hours of time with the family at night before the kids shove
off to bed.
let alone having time to check the cars.

Have a nice weekend.
Xanth

 

On 8/14/2008 10:36 PM jim beam spake these words of knowledge:

For what it's worth, it's "It's". Not to mention that you never start a
sentence with a conjunction. I don't have any grief with correcting
spelling - how else do people learn? - but for proper communication, the
rules of grammar also have a place.

RFT!!!
Dave Kelsen

 

It's a simple answer. It's because they were not properly maintained/used.

Not really.

Just "bearly" 2 hours? How long does it take to go out and check the
tire pressures? Less than 10 minutes. When was the last time the wheel
alignments were checked/adjusted? How many times did you rotate the
tires, and at what mileage intervals?

See above. It doesn't take very long.

Spend some of it checking your vehicle(s).

Then spend the rest of it taking a remedial English/writing course.

 

it's a unix thing...

but i just did. and this is conversation, not dissertation.

where were you for the op's education?

 

Really? As a (former) Unix and AIX systems administrator, I recall just
the opposite. Unlike most flavors of DOS, in Unix, as in English, case
matters. You have it wrong.

So you did. This is not a conversation in the general sense, although
you could derive a sense of that meaning from 2c below.

1 obsolete : conduct, behavior
2 a (1): oral exchange of sentiments, observations, opinions, or ideas
(2): an instance of such exchange : talk <a quiet conversation> b: an
informal discussion of an issue by representatives of governments,
institutions, or groups c: an exchange similar to conversation.

Irrespective, you seem to imply that rules of punctuation and grammar
don't apply to written 'conversations', yet you seem to be concerned
with rules of spelling. I guess you get to pick and choose. It's a Jim
Beam thing...

You corrected the spelling mistake. That's the point. There are more
rules for good communication than spelling.


RFT!!!
Dave Kelsen

 

name a single cli command that is capitalized.

get over yourself.

so, if you want to be a pedant, where are you when it matters?

 

Who claimed anything about "cli commands"? He said that "case matters" in
Unix, and that is a true statement. If you actually did use Unix, you'd
know that.

Besides, this is not a Unix CLI. It's a newsgroup discussion, in English,
which dictates that proper capitalization, spelling, punctuation is in
order. Get a grip.

 

me. if you've used it, the habit of non-capitalization is pretty much
essential.

i never said it wasn't. read the statement i made - don't
mischaracterize then criticize the mischaracterization.