Roughly six months ago I went to a tyre shop near where I used to live. I got some very serious puncture due to (now this must be a record of some kind) 6 nails on my front left tyre and 4 nails on my front right tyre. Now the funny thing is that I have yet been to any construction yard or went near one. So I have no idea how the hell I got so many nails on my freaking good tyre!
Anyway, I went to the tyre shop and asked them what was my best option. They said, “Sir, too many holes. Cannot repair. Must change new.” I agreed, and asked them what they have. They checked their stock and came back to me, “Sir, we only have SIME tyre right now. The rest are out of stock for your size unless you can wait 2 hours, we order for you.”
I looked at the watch, and I had an appointment to catch so I didn’t have the luxury of time to wait for other brands, so I asked them to change it as soon as possible.
After I changed the tyres, I noticed that they are very noisy and the grip level on dry is not as good as the Dunlop that I had used before. Wet handling? What is wet handling? These SIME tyres are afraid of rain, so they don’t handle at all.
Now, 6 months later, today, I noticed that the front two tyre, the SIME tyre, are “pregnant”. Now please don’t be sick and think that I was humping them until I got them pregnant. But the effect of a pregnant tyre is the same. After 10 months, a baby SIME tyre will come out when the pregnant tyre exploded.
[NOTE: The term "pregnant tyre" is actually used to describe a bulging sidewall or other places on the tyre. It is a kind of defects and it is very dangerous as the bulging part is weaken and the tyre might explode any time]
After checking with a few friends, they all told me that SIME tyre are very susceptible to pregnancy as if SIME manufacturer do not use enough rubber protection. A source also told me that SIME tyre are locally manufactured by a local company. Now I cannot say if this is true (if anyone knows, please feel free to drop me a note to confirm if SIME is really a local company), but IF this is true, then it sucks to be Malaysian.
First we have lousy national cars such as Proton and Perodua. The government has jacked up the taxes on automobile so that not everyone can fucking afford a Japanese car, or Korean, not to mention continental cars or those German brands. If you are a normal salary person, you have no other options but to buy Proton and Perodua, or some 3rd hand 15 years old Japanese car.
The 2 P’s (Proton and Perodua. But in my very honest opinion, Perodua is better by a small margin) are basically junk and you feel like you are driving a trash can on the road. When you drive it, you will suspect that the material used are found from the trash or from some third world country.
Okay, credit has to be given to Proton and Perodua. At least every year they make a lot of money for the government, and of course some special well connected individual, and most importantly, they also help the government to check on the population level. We cannot have too much of a population increase, can we?
So besides building cars that can’t even fucking kill a dog when you run them over (it happened, really. My cousin ran over a dog and the dog didn’t die, and she got a big dent on the bumper), now they are building exploding tyres so that those tyres could explode anytime and cause an accident? So you go imagine why the government kept mentioning about fatality rate on the road.
Hello? Excuse me! Unsafe national car and unsafe national tyre. Do I need to say more? Hell, do I need to draw a picture for you? So stop talking cock and start asking why the 2 P’s are making cars from materials collected from junk yard and start asking SIME to start using more material and stop pocketing the saving in material cost. Then you might see a decrease in fatality on the road.
Mahai!
Now I have to fork out the extra money to get those front tyres replace.
For the fun of it, I am attaching a YouTube video showing review on Proton Waja by Top Gear UK after the jump.
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