Tire Overinflation

Maintenance/Repairs
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I would imagine things got pretty tense around there after staring at the walls and being totally unable to keep customers from walking away from this situation. Ouch.

Back in the 80s I worked for Nissan and they announced they were going to start a team pay plan in the service department. The idea was that every mechanic would get the same amount of flat rate hours.
So the guys who were really working hard and producing were having hours taken out of their pay check to give to mechanics who were loitering around the coffee pot and taking days off to go fishing.
One mechanic gets 60 hours for the week, another has 30, so they take 15 hours away from the 60 guy and give to the 30 guy so both will have 45. “This would make it fair and relieve tensions due to someone making more money than the next guy over”.

You can only imagine how well this Socialist program worked. :frowning:

Imagine a salesman making 10 sales on the week and another salesman making 6 so they take 2 away from the 10 guy so both have 8 commissions. No way.

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It’s asinine because they never thought out the law completely before passing it. The pressure should have been coded because your average drive or shadetree mechanic simply looks at the number and over-inflates the tires.

Well they put the pressure on the sidewall so the owner could tell that the tyre someone was trying to sell them was not suitable for their car if the vehicle manufacturer indicated a higher pressure. If the pressure was coded the owner would have no way of knowing the tyres he was buying did not have the load carrying capacity for his car.

The unintended side effect was that many owners don’t bother to read the manual and they don’t seem to understand what the word (Maximum) means and just inflate it to that number.

They end up with overinflated tyres giving less traction and possible unsafe handling because they don’t want to read the owner’s manual for the most expensive thing they own.