Found on craigslist.

"Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street." (demon-xanth)
10/02/2017 at 13:01 • Filed to: None

Seller be like “Tires have about 50% left”

Picture says, “You accidentally hit a five.”

DISCUSSION (15)

MonkeePuzzle > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
10/02/2017 at 13:07

they were comparing it to the wheel in the background

WilliamsSW > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
10/02/2017 at 13:07

No, 50% seems right to me.

The tires are good to go until the belts show, right? :)

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
10/02/2017 at 13:12

Yeah and can’t you tell they’re Mud Terrains?

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
10/02/2017 at 13:14

Yeah 50% of the halflife of rubber is left

PotbellyJoe and 42 others > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
10/02/2017 at 13:15

Seems accurate for Craigslist math. Start high, let the buyer work you down, right?

Chariotoflove > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
10/02/2017 at 13:19

Looks like someone needs an alignment.

CalzoneGolem > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
10/02/2017 at 13:35

Simple. The other 50% of the tire is missing. Looks like this C

jasmits > WilliamsSW
10/02/2017 at 13:38

I thought you were supposed to replace them when they stop holding air?

A good friend of mine in college had a B5 A4 Avant with the 1.8t, relatively tuned up I think it was somewhere north of 300 to the wheels. I’m not going to throw him too much under the bus here because I don’t think he realized just how bad his tires were, but not long after he bought it us and two other friends set out to drive through the night from school in eastern Pennsylvania, just a bit outside of Philly to a town in Indiana just outside of Chicago(yes, Indiana not Illinois Chicago is very close to Indiana) because another friend who was out there for an internship was going through a really rough time and needed some friends. The owner and I were the only two who could drive stick so we figured he could load up on coffee and take the first fiveish hours and I could pass out(we left at like 9pm and I’d had a long day) and then I swap in when he was getting tired to take it through in the early hours of the morning. When we swapped somewhere in the middle of Ohio he’s like “oh yeah, the tires are a little on the bald side so take it easy if it starts to rain and try to avoid standing water” and immediately conks out in the passenger seat. Minutes later it starts absolutely deluging rain so I elbow him like “dude, the entire highway is standing water” he half wakes up, is like “I dunno, please don’t crash my car” and conks out again. A tense few hours later we made it through the rain just fine, but damn I have never experienced a car feeling that squirrelly on an interstate in any conditions, I was down to like 40 miles an hour getting passed by trucks. A few days later after an uneventful trip back he notices one of the tires is a touch low walking past it in the parking lot. Takes it off to take a look and it is bald down to and through the threads, literally no longer able to even hold air.

WilliamsSW > jasmits
10/02/2017 at 13:45

Wow! That would be scary as hell in an unfamiliar car! I’ve always been pretty conservative on tires - especially in the fall. If they have less than a year left (and I’m not swapping in snows), they get replaced before Thanksgiving.

a town in Indiana just outside of Chicago(yes, Indiana not Illinois Chicago is very close to Indiana)

LOL - I’ve spent most of my life in the Chicago area. Guessing you’re talking about Hammond or Valparaiso there — though Valpo is a ways away from Chicago. Back in my college days, I had a friend and a gf from the east side of Chicago - which DOES exist. :)

jasmits > WilliamsSW
10/02/2017 at 14:42

Hammond/Gary area. Already a pretty depressing area to live, especially if you don’t know anyone besides a few coworkers. He was going through some shit and we were pretty worried about him.

Not being 100% up-to-date on any part of maintenance was pretty out-of-character for him. He knew it sort of needed tires but they really honestly didn’t look that bad at a glance, he had only had the car a couple weeks and it was completely rust free and he had a winter beater so he was planning on putting it away until the spring once it started feeling like winter and dealing with the tires when he took it back out. Add this trip being very sudden and him being the only one of the four of us with a car on campus at the moment and there you go. Poor choices that turned out fine were made.

It was kinda scary, I just took it slow. I was more worried about one of the semis that kept blowing by be not seeing me because the visibility was pretty shit. Honestly I’ve driven my second gen 4Runner with no electronic traction aids and mostly RWD(part-time 4WD) through rather significant snow without snow tires or chains on but with good BFG KO2s and felt like I had similar traction to that night.

WilliamsSW > jasmits
10/02/2017 at 14:58

Yeah, I’m familiar with it. It’s very industrial and gritty - and a few parts around there have very high crime rates, too (though much of it is perfectly safe). Definitely a very depressing place to be on your own. A friend of mine grew up in Chicago, but just 4 blocks from the state line (Hammond).

Taking it slow is all you can do in that situation (besides pull off and wait until it stops). It’s a learning experience - with that memory, you’ll never make that mistake again (and hopefully your buddy won’t either).!

jasmits > WilliamsSW
10/02/2017 at 15:11

It seemed more abandoned than anything to me. Like an area that had a lot of crime 10 years ago but everyone left and now there’s not a whole lot of reason to go back. He was studying material science and doing something with a concrete company.

It’s a big part of why I’ve got my KO2s haha! I had bought my 4Runner recently and was about to drive it cross country. The tires were fine but kinda getting toward marginal and a few days before I left I thought to myself ‘wtf are you doing, you’re about to put 3,000 miles on this thing by yourself and you’ll need new tires within the year anyway what exactly will you prove by getting a few more months out of them,’ Discount Tire turned out to be having a promotion on KO2s which was exactly what I wanted to get anyway and couldn’t be happier with them 15k later.

WilliamsSW > jasmits
10/02/2017 at 15:19

Ha- yeah! The first set of tires I bought was for a ‘72 Monte Carlo. I had owned it a couple of months, and the first time it snowed (also my first EVER snow driving experience), I understeered through a turn and skidded into a curb. Very slow, so nothing was damaged, but that’s when the light clicked on that it needed new tires.

And yeah, I love Discount Tire- they treat me well.

AMGtech - now with more recalls! > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
10/02/2017 at 15:38

He’s right though. Do you see the cracks in the tire? They effectively make the tread deeper!

MotoArigato > Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street.
10/02/2017 at 15:40

By weight... it still has 50% left by WEIGHT!