Paul Foster wrote:
>Eric Linnhoff writes:
>
><<<The Team T/A test compared sets of tires prepared in the following
>ways.
>
>1. Not heat cycled
>2. Heat cycled by regular driving for 100 continuous highway miles 3 to
>4 weeks in advance of the track test
>3. Heat cycled by regular driving for 100 continuous highway miles 48
>hours in advance of the track test
>4. The Tire Rack's Heat Cycling Service 48 hours in advance of the track
>test>>>
>
>Too bad they didn't also use the method that is prescribed by Hoosier.
>That is to gradually drive the car from 50% to 100% over the course of
>3-4 track laps and then let them sit for at least 24 hours, preferably a
>week. According to them you must exercise the tires at the limits for
>the procedure to have full effect just as the Indy car and Winston Cup
>teams do before a race. It would have been interesting to see a real
>test that includes this procedure instead of one that was intended to
>make the $15 per tire 'processing' look good...
So what would you recommend to someone who doesn't have access to
a track (no place to 'exercise the tires at the limits')?
Drive figure-eights at gradually increasing speed in an empty
parking lot for 10 minutes? Run them on the highway as described?
I'm curious, as all the local drivers are encouraging me to get
some autoX only tires, but if I go all out for R compound I would
want them to last as long as possible.
Charles
'99 Miata BS
driving on the original Yoko's
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