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Originally Posted by ian@huth
Emergency spare wheels are often rated at 50 mph maximum and some even less. They are used on vehicles, mainly sports cars, where there is not sufficient room for a full size spare. One or two cars have different size wheels front and rear and the spare is a compromise and is onle meant to help you to get slowly to a repair station.
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Too true, my car, an Alpha Romeo 156, has one of these. It is road legal, but limited in maximum speed, and distance (50miles). It is a get out of trouble card. Knowing how interesting the handling of the car is on it's normal tyres, I'd really not like to experience even 50Mph on one of these thin tyres in the dry, let alone wet or ice.
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Originally Posted by scastle
I actually agree, speeding itself is not the problem. It's merely a symptom of bad driving (not that I am saying all people who speed are bad drivers - I have friends who speed whom I consider to be very good drivers), but I think the police are in a no wine situation.
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A most unfortunate typo
