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Originally Posted by AnTyx
So what you're saying is, it's not the "Europrats" letting manufacturers reject third-party tires - it's you personally?
(Incidentally, they're so terrible at it that they expressly banned printer companies from doing that with cartridges eighteen years ago.)
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One thing you learn from living in the UK is that there are people over here who rush to blame the EU for everything from their blocked crapper to the British weather.
FWIW, I used to work in the aircraft tyre business when they were looking at embedding chips in the tyres for TPMS purposes. As I remember, it came to nothing as it was more cost effective to build it into wheels. The only future that was seen for RFID chips was stock control, and that could be rolled out into a number of areas in the industry where there are many similar parts requiring checking and cataloguing (seats and life jacket cabin checks for example).
As for the suggestion of a life limit, the aviation industry already has an "over 10 years do not fit" rule but nobody removes an otherwise serviceable tyre for that, normal inspection criteria suffice for determining ongoing serviceability. Almost like you like you would do on an MoT or routine service, in fact.
No paranoia here then.
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