Tyres Made Of Coil Springs Have Created A Bizarre ‘Luxury’ Lada
Time for another dip into Garage 54’s weird series of videos focusing on bizarre alternatives to conventional tyres. Recently we’ve seen paper, electrical tape and shoes on ridiculously long spokes.
This week it’s the turn of chopped-down coil springs, which get welded to a pair of steel wheel rims and fitted to the rear axle of an otherwise ordinary (i.e. battered and tired) old Lada. Surprisingly enough, they actually work pretty well.
Our Russian host reports a vast improvement in ride quality at the back end on the choppy, unsurfaced road we see in the video. Traction from the base of the coils seems useful, too, with the springs compressing just enough to bring two coils into contact with the ground most of the time.
On the other hand they’re a bit noisy, apparently, and test speeds only reach the low end of second gear. Still, if there’s a cheap way to make an old Lada more comfortable, Russia needs to know!
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Rolls Lada
now someone find a way to get a tire around those springs and sell the idea to michelin as an airless tire
I’ll just leave this here…
But the real question is,
Will this fit on mah Honda?
What kind of idea sprung into their minds!? 😂👌
Oh God please get out 😁
Hehe
Ikr? Just seeing this made me go into shock. Unbeleafable.
Real Russian confort, blyat
In Mother Russia you don’t need eye protection when welding.
He engaged safety squint. He’s fine. 😂
Try drifting around with those tires
I wonder how long it will take that channel to go full circle and try to use rubber tires instead of rubber tires.
“replacing engine oil with engine oil - what will happen?”
he’s welding with no eye protection, wtf :o
That’s one way to increase your suspension travel…
can’t wait to see what happens when it hits a bump