Curious tyre sqeal yesterday

Jul 28, 2008 7 Replies
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Headed off to the lake at 7am yesterday to persecute some carp at which I failed miserably and only managed to catch a couple of skimmer bream. When it went dead mid afternoon as the temperature soared I called it a day and drove home. On the way back the tyres started squealing like stuck pigs on left handers at quite modest cornering speeds. Ok maybe not modest for Granny Walton but modest for the way I normally drive the Focus seeing as it sticks to the road like spunk to a f*ck buddy's T shirt. Somewhere between "Dave we're going to crash" and "Dave I think the passenger side of the car is lifting off the ground, I'm going to be sick."



The Focus never squeals its tyres so my immediate assumption was a flat or slow leak on the right hand side but getting the pressure gauge out this morning every damn tyre on the car is at 30 psi. Right on the money and what they've always been.



I can only put it down to the extreme temperature and the roads starting to melt at 80 degrees C.



Anyone else experienced this?


In message , Dave Baker writes

When I got my Mk2 Focus, I used to get squealing on roundabouts that I never got with my Mk1. I put it down to aggressive driving an a heavy but torquey 2.0 TDCi donk.

I changed my opinion when I finally spotted the heavy tyre wear on the front inside shoulders. The tracking was way out and once fixed, the car was squeal free.

"Dave Baker" gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

Yep. The tarmac we lay in this country just doesn't do hot weather very well.

a customer of mine asked the same thing yesterday, I reckon it is just the high temps.

I remember when Michelin introduced the(ir) first ever radial tyres. My dad had then as fitment on a brand new F reg (1964?) Renault 16. The compound was so hard that they squealed around any sort of bend at almost any speed!

Michelin X IIRC.

Julian.

Old tyres, as in well worn, squeal a lot more than new ones in hot weather in my experience.

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