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awesome_dude • yesterday at 8:59 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

uhhh If one of your tyres is going bad then at least two need to be changed on all vehicles, and, more importantly, some investigation needs to take place why only one wheel is going bad (poor rotation strategy, wheel alignment, bad brakes... etc)


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hinkley • yesterday at 9:40 PM

Punctures and pinches can take out one tire. As can psycho exes, teenagers whose parents didn’t raise them right, manufacturing defects. And the passenger side tires are more susceptible to sidewall damage from poor parallel parking.

The sting of losing two tires due to a mistake is a lot less than that of losing all four when three are still good. It’s one extra versus three extra tires.