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Eek, 100,000kms out of a set of tyres.
Seriously folks, you should not have tyres on your car that long. The tyre rubber is soft and pliable when new, but hardens and becomes brittle with age. This is accelerated by heat, UV exposure and other factors. Remember that the only thing between you and the road is a small patch of rubber.
The roadholding of these tyres would not be seriously impared around corners etc. as I doubt they had any in the first place. If you never push your car then that level of grip may suffice. I myself would not be happy and would simply throw them away. The area of concern is your braking distance. This will be probably tens of metres worse than when the tyres were new, that's about two car lengths, it means you not only hit the kid that runs out into the road, you probably kill them. All for the sake of a few hundred dollars, which you are eventually going to have to spend anyway.
Tyre manufacturers should not be able to make this rubbish, the stuff coming from China and Korea is bad, seriously bad. I wouldn't put them on a shopping trolley, let alone a 1.5t car capable of in excess of 110kmh. Wake up and take road safety seriously, yours and others. Buy good tyres and change the bloody things after 60,000kms or two years, MAXIMUM. Do you wife and kids ride in these cars with crap tyres on them? How would they feel to know that you're risking their lives to save a few hundred bucks, whilst spending money on telescopes?
Sorry for the rant, but this oneupmanship over how long your tyres lasts hits a raw nerve, particularly when a lot of the people espousing it (not necessarily here) are the "Speed Kills" nazis with little or no understanding of road safety.
Cheers
Stuart
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