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And we have emission laws here that aren't enforced. Tons of illegal exhausts and mods and NOTHING is done. Cops ignore it. I've seen so many smoking cars as well.
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I thought brake pads use asbestos which contribute to the noxious particles. I do think Vehicle-to-vehicle communications will eventually minimize the all the chicken necking, evening out the traffic and thus less breaking.
Brake pads have not used asbestos in several decades.
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They're torn up from the road and rubbed off from the tyres themselves. The majority is obviously coming from the road. There's been studies done here in Sweden since we've banned studded winter tyres in some areas of Stockholm in an effort to reduce road wear and improve air quality. I don't know of any sources in English off the top of my head though. The last time I read an article about it though (2+ years ago, d…
>They're torn up from the road and rubbed off from the tyres themselves. The majority is obviously coming from the road. Not sure even that adds up to believable. The Sydney Harbour Bridge is about 500m long between the pylons. It has "more than 150,000 cars per day" on it (according to the snippet from a google search). If all of that was from the road, that'd mean there's about 160 tons of road getting torn up per…
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Yes. A high UTQG rating will mean your tires will last forever at the expense of traction, road noise, etc. The last set of tires I bought at Costco lasted 70k miles, but also increased wet stopping distance and introduced a roar to cabin noise. My latest set have a UTQG near 0 and will only last about 10k miles but they make no noise and have insane amounts of grip (think race car tire)
If you drive less and have separate summer/winter tires, it has the odd side-effect of making long-wear tires not worthwhile, as the life of the tread depth will exceed the life of the rubber due to age.
(after 1000 miles on the MP4S you're already more than 1/16th worn and would need to replace the entire set to keep the AWD system happy)