I Made DIY Airless Tires
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Published 2022-03-04
• 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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All Comments (21)
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We put F1 tyres on my road car! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHZ8rgWYNtA
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The most obvious conclusion from this video is that I need a Caterham.
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This is so Old Top Gear I love it, the humour and everything so much like the testing of the Hammerhead Eagle i-Thrust, ambitious but rubbish-ish (as they were decent for 1st try tbh)
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Instead of nuts and bolts (which will invariably come loose with vibration) have you thought about tension cabling? Like using a steel cable woven through multiple peices of pipe and attached through the wheel rim. Then with wrapping the cable through multiple times before going through the wheel rim again, such that if it started to come loose, there would be a gradual degredation.
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Extremely suprised with how rigid the wheels where! Love projects like these. Yes it was vibrating like crazy but still.. it did what it was designed for!
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As a first test, that was ridiculously successful.
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This was honestly a job well executed guys. Wouldn't take much refinement to make them work honestly. And glad to see Scott back as well it's great woth you two together.
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I think we can all agree that the Caterham is just THE perfect test bench for projects like this. Very entertaining, keep it up!
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In case you haven't considered it yet, some (probably most) of the noise and vibration is caused by the seam where the tread meets. If you could find a way to leave about an inch of sidewall on both sides and mount that on your design, the noise and vibration should be closer to regular tires.
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5:20 UK: We have a lot of potholes. India: That's cute
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Reminds me of putting playing cards on bicycle wheel spokes . Live . Love it took me back 60 years. Thanks guys . DON'T EVER GROW UP. JUST GET SMARTER. GOD BLESS YOU.
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Can you test acceleration and breaking compared to regular performance tires ? The usual principle is that air allows deformation required to get more (or optimal) adherence with the surface, more contact area. I'm curious about that principle since you need more rigidity in your concept to maintain integrity of the tire to lateral forces, it should adversly affect the contact area with the pavement. Let me know !
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You should tell about this channel on driver61, i actually found this accidentally, it's so cool to see you 2 car friends having the fun of your life. I myslef can't wait to do car stuff when i growup 😀
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this really brings back the top gear experiments vibe, hope you guys would do more like this
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Seems like a fantastic success for a 1st build. You're definitely on to something here. If you happen to do a revision maybe leave a little bit of sidewall as sort of a bracket to mitigate the tread from sliding sideways. Also if you can do it without cutting the tread and creating a seam I'm sure it would hold tighter. Either way that was a really nice idea and if I had the funds and tools I'd be trying to replicate this to apply to my normal daily driving.
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LOVE THIS. feels like old top gear, and that’s the biggest compliment you can get. Classic.
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We've been using airless tyres in the outback for decades. If you get a flat and don't have a space, do a small cut into the sidewall of the flat and pack it with Spinifex grass until you can't squeeze anymore in. Will run for 1000's of km's and save you life.
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Did you try red thread locker? Could help with the bolts coming apart
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Maybe consider putting that solution inside a tyre casing, then on the rim. That way it is all contained inside the casing, lessening the chances of it coming apart. It also means a continuous tread that’s not held together by screws. Any tyre could then be converted to make us of this.
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Just two lads having an absolute blast!
