I hear the ‘fun’ squealing and imagine the short lives of their tires. But is this true? If so, why not?
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The skid marks you see are actually melted asphalt, not deposited rubber.
https://www.howitworksdaily.com/what-causes-tyre-marks/#:~:text=It%20might%20look%20like%20pieces%20of%20rubber%20from,road%20to%20melt%20and%20rise%20to%20the%20surface. Because nobody believes me.
But yes it’s awful for your tires. If you could hold a power slide for a few minutes, that would be it, tires gone. Probably down to an illegal tread depth in under a minute.
But you have to consider what mileage they do. Tires age as well as wear. You get maybe 5 years out of a pair, and maybe 10-50k miles of normal use depending on how sticky the compound. If you factor in that car nuts often have summer and winter tires (climate dependent), their fun weekend/nice weather car might come nowhere close to this mileage in that time. Meaning they have rubber to burn.
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