Club 80-90 Forums

Hello,

1988 1.6 TD panel van, running standard 14" wheels and 185R14C 8 PR tyres.

My tyres are getting hot on journeys.

The pressures are correct (39 front, 48 rear), and the tracking is right. Is it because I am driving between Bristol and Trowbridge (25 miles each way) at the minute on hot roads, in the hot weather, up hill and down dale? Probably carrying about 300kg of crap in the van.

Cheers,

Steve

This is perfectly normal..tyres have an opperating temp. it makes the rubber stickier

as long as there isn't any tracking wear dont worry

The roads are rather hot anyway and the heat will transfer to the tyre

Yep....hot tyres are fine, I've had steam coming off the tyres on my car before

Hot tyres are indeed fine. It's when you have 'sausages' of rubber on the shoulders that you know you should probably back off a bit cos you're enjoying yourself too much

I think F1 tyres reach their optimal performance at over 100C. Depends how hot they are getting though. A tyre on a lexus trailer in a layby by the side of a dual carriage way the other week certainly wasn't fine, it was on fire (pulled over and put it out just in time), brakes had been binding I expect.

Sam.

FRICTION BABY!

yes, friction plus the fact that its 93 degrees in the shade!!