Yeah, I am not a fan either but figured a very distinctive plate is the ONLY way something like this could be made to work. It is still a bad idea to have “unsafe” cars on the road. A cracked windshield is one thing but tires ready to blow is another.
I once bought a used car and it had pretty decent tires on it or so I thought. I didn’t know the brand but the tread looked pretty good. One tire about came apart at high speed. I put the spare on and figured it was a fluke. Then I could start to feel another one starting to come apart. I got all new tires at that point. The tire shop is like “These are Douglas tires from Wal-Mart. They all do this.” I didn’t realize that was a Wal-Mart only tire but I looked them up and they are pretty much the cheapest tire you can buy. They also had a lot of complaints about failures like mine. The problem is that the type of customer who would buy the cheapest tires will be the first to go back and scream at Wal-Mart.
