speedo

Good morning Murray
You will have the tyre police on your back old son, you just cant change tyres without an engineers certificate and advice from all the people that know better about this subject than you. What pressure are you using and are they light truck? Do you let them down in the morning before the sun shines? Are they the rite brand for the majority of the work you do , and will they slide you off the road on the first wet corner ? The mind boggles with the problems you may encounter...split side walls , tread knobs breaking off , noisy on the bitumen , overheating and blowing out. It goes on and on .
Enjoy your day .

Muzbury,

Wittybix this morning :)

Go easy on the RED, Muz! What is a rite tyre, I have seen some which have been given the last rites.

Gday Ross
Did i use the wrong rite? I could have said "right "which is the off side of your vehicle , or "write" which is pen to paper , so which is the rite rite to use ?

Some of the right tyres would be left tyres and the spare 1/2 & 1/2 sort of undecided.

OFF SIDE seems a bit soccer to me.

Off side is for 'Orses isn't it.
Not sure why off side is used with motor vehicles as we don't dismount on the left ie, off side.

Muz,
You forgot to mention if the white writing goes on the inside or the out side or maybe inside on the passenger side and outside on the drivers side.
Cheers Dave

Ross M posted:
Not sure why off side is used with motor vehicles as we don't dismount on the left ie, off side.

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Off side and near side were very commonly used terms when I started working as an apprentice mechanic in 1961. They are most likely still used today. They simply mean near the gutter (near side) or away from the gutter (off side). They save confusion by referring to the side of a car as left or right.

Hi 671,

Wouldn't that be the other way around.

The passenger or assistant in a truck is referred to as the "offsider".

That would make the left side the "off side" wouldn't it???

I don't really know what is correct but that is what I have always been lead to believe.

I would expect that it is a carry over from the coaching days or carts and drays where the assistant sat on the left side of the dray, or the getting on and off side

Cheers, Bruce

Muz
Looks like I better put my standard tyres back on and have the writing on the outside and make shaw I don't disebark from the off side.

Murray

PS My speedo would still read wrong anyway

Bruce C (NSW) posted:

Wouldn't that be the other way around.

The passenger or assistant in a truck is referred to as the "offsider".
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It might be to people driving trucks but in the motor industry it has nothing to do with who is sitting where.

You could be driving a truck and bend the passenger side steering arm for example. You would order a near side steering arm. If you asked for an off side one because your offsider was sitting there, you would get one for the driver's side.

The moment you bring left and right side into it, you have people looking at the car from behind and calling the passenger side the left side while another standing in front with the bonnet up would call it the right side.

That is why I have seen countless parts with identifying messages like N/S/F (near side front) or O/S/R (off side rear) hand written on them.

Even when writing job cards for the workshop, I would write directions like " Check for N/S/R knocking noise on rough surfaces" The mechanics would then go looking for things like worn shock bushes etc. down the back on the side nearest the gutter or in laymen's terms, the passenger side.

If you do 110 in a 80 zone a nice policeman will tell you what speed you are doing. Not a cheap method though.

Standard tyres are included in the problem. My DMax speedo is 8% over straight from the dealer. The odomotor is 3% over in standard trim.

Iza