We put F1 tires on my road car!
   • I Put F1 Tires on My Car  

We handmade DIY airless tyres and drove them over 100mph, drifted and over a bed of nails!

Regular tyres have been filled with air for over 100 years. They work quite well, but they could leave you stranded at the side of the road with a puncture.

So, with a very small budget and not a lot of time, we decided to fix tyres forever. But, as with any great innovation, we had a few problems on the way.

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So, this is the benchmark. The obvious issue is that it’s filled with air.
And for something so well-developed - isn’t it weird that it can be rendered entirely useless by something as small as a nail - or even a pothole. But before we get to putting our airless tyres on the car - let me explain how we made them.

So the base is a 14’ steel wheel from a Ford Mondeo, then bolted to the outside are 15 lengths of PVC Fresh Water Pipe. And I know we’re not NASA - but it actually worked well. It's our unique Puncture-Proof Tire System! Using only pvc pipes, nuts and bolts to fit all together.

Now for the clever stuff, these smaller ones are our anti-vibration pipes - to make sure things weren’t too bumpy. Then the grippy bit - this is just the tread from a normal tyre - wrapped around the outside. Then to keep it all together, we used over 300 nuts and bolts.

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