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Years ago, I was told by Goodyear that the life of a tire was dependent
upon where the car was driven. He gave me a reprint of an article that
showed the roadbed (ie concrete or asphalt) played a major role, but
also the asphalt in different states played an even larger role.
Supposedly the filler used in different areas were different and some
were substantially more abrasive than other areas.

Has anyone else heard of this. I tried to Goggle up the info, but was
unsuccessful.


--
Reggie

"That's my story and I am sticking to it."

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"Reggie Smithers" wrote in message
. ..
Years ago, I was told by Goodyear that the life of a tire was dependent
upon where the car was driven. He gave me a reprint of an article that
showed the roadbed (ie concrete or asphalt) played a major role, but also
the asphalt in different states played an even larger role. Supposedly the
filler used in different areas were different and some were substantially
more abrasive than other areas.

Has anyone else heard of this. I tried to Goggle up the info, but was
unsuccessful.


--
Reggie

"That's my story and I am sticking to it."

Rubber roads and concrete tires. That's the solution.

RCE

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FREDO wrote:
We must align every car if we didn't cars would come to customers with the
tires squealing when you were driving straight.

What I understood was that they went into a jig of sorts for alignment,
and that they checked that alignment every several cars. I thought it
was kind of a far fetched story, but I wouldn't put it past the big
three!

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RCE wrote:
"Reggie Smithers" wrote in message
. ..
Years ago, I was told by Goodyear that the life of a tire was dependent
upon where the car was driven. He gave me a reprint of an article that
showed the roadbed (ie concrete or asphalt) played a major role, but also
the asphalt in different states played an even larger role. Supposedly the
filler used in different areas were different and some were substantially
more abrasive than other areas.

Has anyone else heard of this. I tried to Goggle up the info, but was
unsuccessful.


--
Reggie

"That's my story and I am sticking to it."

Rubber roads and concrete tires. That's the solution.

RCE


Let it to an engineer to find the best solution

--
Reggie

"That's my story and I am sticking to it."

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THe alignment is MORE accurate from the factory as we have a $750,000.00 USD
machine which allows us to do the alignment. It is calibrated at the start
of each shift.
"Reggie Smithers" wrote in message
. ..
FREDO wrote:
We must align every car if we didn't cars would come to customers with
the tires squealing when you were driving straight.
"basskisser" wrote in message
oups.com...
FREDO wrote:
Harry,

I work at the a car factory and we can 4 wheel align a car in under 45
seconds with our ultrasonic alignment equipment. We have found the
ultrasonic system is more reliable than a laser system in high humidity
and
heat environments such as a non air conditioned assembly plant. The
laser
wavelength tends to become distorted in high heat humidity conditions.
Which
causes the cameras to have difficulty reading the tire location
properly.

I've heard that you can get a brand new car and the alignment will be
off, because they don't align every car that comes off the assembly
line. Is that true where you work?



Fredo,
Do you think the cars are as accurately aligned as when you have them
aligned at the dealer? Or do they just get them close enough for
government work?

--
Reggie

"That's my story and I am sticking to it."

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No we must align every car; in addition every car gets driven around a test
track. At least in our factory.
"basskisser" wrote in message
oups.com...

FREDO wrote:
We must align every car if we didn't cars would come to customers with
the
tires squealing when you were driving straight.

What I understood was that they went into a jig of sorts for alignment,
and that they checked that alignment every several cars. I thought it
was kind of a far fetched story, but I wouldn't put it past the big
three!