原帖由 shutterbug 於 2008-10-1 13:39 發表 
To answer your questions:
- I don't if you consider this slow. I used to drive 100km rush hour traffic per day 60% hwy and 40% city. I cruised on hwy at around 120km/h.
- My good old Mystique V6 used to have stock Michelin's MXV4 and Falken's 512. Of course I got less mileage with Falken cuz they're (only) slightly more grippy. I was quite surprised with the MXV4 in terms of wet traction and tire life; they last! Side note, I was still on the first clutch when I sold the car.
The point whether the tire is grippy or not is irrelevant. When a tires is almost worn down to the indicator and the wear is still even, the alignment shoudl be fine. Whether it's grippy or not, it just means the length of time that the wear shows up. With grippy tires, the wear is obvious is a short time of course.
Not bad, $40 to put the heads on for a sanity check. I have another Civic that probably can use an alignment
120kph is actually a very good hwy speed, for gas and tire wear etc; if u go smoothly i guess it's still better than stop and go traffic in city (as we call that serve driving, like taxi's)...
I think Michelin MXV4 is a much better tire than Falken 512's, in term of price wise it's a very economic tire but i notice it's wet / snow performance is quite horrible, especially after the 1st year / 10k. See, you have to be a good driver to be on ur first clutch at 200k? i can tell ya i have done clutch job for car as low as 50k! I guess if one drives conservatively, like if u plan ahead and always give urself more time to travel, easy on gas / brake it's always better for ur tires / brakes / gas mileage too. And if you can drive, i am sure alignment is not an issue ~ not like i have to do wheel alignment cuz i hit sth ~ curb / pothole etc, it's more like i wanna try a diff setup for the track etc...
for a conservative driver they can somewhat use any tires as their driving habits change along diff tires ~ u just go slower with not as good tires; when u dun get into trouble, like hitting a curb / pothole etc, alignment doesn't change after 3 to 4 years (some ppl proved that, like my sister ~ less than 4 years driving experience, and she doesn't drive too slow)...
yeah grippy tire will apparently worn faster and as long as they have even wear, alignment is usually not an issue BUT alignment usually shows a long term tire wear, so IF on your old set it doesn't show anything it doesn't mean in the last little while u didn't hit anything or whatsoever and knock off the alignment just a little bit; of course, from what u have said, i know u should know how to drive and avoid pothole, maybe go over speed bump "slowly", and slow down on uneven surface etc; but lots of ppl actually dun aware that! have seen corolla with less than 100k and she needs 4 new shocks!
yeah $40 to make sure everything is okay and if sth is not, either another $50 to adjust it back or u can plan ahead and save up to repair whatever that's bent; better than to ruin a set of tires then u realize after that couple hundreds now u have to spend another couple hundreds to fix your car... |
發表於 2008-10-1 23:02
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. It's been in a couple of accidents (not by me of course) and I think the frame is not straight. It's still a nice beater though (A/C's still working and good gas mileage!), nothing really failed me except for the CV joints that I replaced a few years ago, of course brakes, batt, w/pump, t-belt, tires, etc are basic maintenance. Actually, I don't even know if a WA can fix the problem unless the frame get straighened, but I don't think I'll spend any $ on straighten it cuz it's probably not worth it.