Tire Extinguishers can fuck right off

[tireextinguishers]

Woke up to deflated tires because I drive an SUV.

Jealous, petty wankers.

Anyone got got this morning?

I don’t think they slash tyres, or at least this group don’t. We have lockable air thingys as does next door and they usually just leave their note but leave the tyres well alone.

I have an SUV (Ford Kuga), although my current one isn’t as big as my last one. I have it because I struggle to get in and out of lower cars so this is ideal. I also need a decent boot for my mobility scooter. My car is my lifeline.

I suppose I offset it by being to ill to fly anywhere.

I loathe people who drive SUVs in the city with no good reason

But how do you know whether they have a reason and who are you to decide whether it's a good one or not?

I drive a van, which probably has a similar effect on the environment to an SUV.

Without my van neither DS nor I could do the hobbies we do.

We couldn't go on family camping trips (yes, reducing my carbon footprint not flying every year !)

But you wouldn't know any of that from driving past me in the street or looking at my van on my drive way.

Producing a new electric car makes more than 3 tons extra CO2 compared to producing a petrol or diesel car.

So at 165g/km for the petrol car being driven, you could drive 20,000 km in it and still not have caused have as much carbon release as just building the electric car, without it even being driven it at all.

And then people assume that electric cars don't cause CO2 emissions which is utter bollocks again given that less than 40% of the UK's energy is from renewables.

On top of all that, scrapping a perfectly good SUV and replacing it with a new electric car would generate at least 9 tons of CO2 even if the electric car never turned a wheel.

These 'protesters' (vandals) are just brain dead dreamers.

That's my disabled partners fear. He has traded in his car for a lower emission compact SUV that will fit a small mobility scooter in. It isn't a struggle to get in and the boot opens out, not up. We still have my grandchildren to ferry about etc. He did the most eco friendly thing possible, he didn't have children.

Just because you live in a city doesn't mean that you don't use your SUV to go camping, carry wheelchairs, transport dogs etc.
I can't believe that posters are ok with criminal acts because the criminal doesn't agree with the behaviour of the victim. That's a dangerous road to go down.

This is a complete strawman. Not even the note left by the vandals suggests the OP gets an electric car. Many of the things in the note would just as likely advocate switching to a small hatchback before an electric car. The protest isn't pro-electric cars, it's just anti SUV.

It could be, when I got my SUV (Ford kuga) , the extra space was a benefit.

Lots of people now prefer a higher up driving position and mines AWD which living rurally (and I mean rural) is fab for the snow and floods, navigating hilly and winding back roads that don't get gritted like main roads.

However, as much as they have benefits, they are also a pain.

Lots of times it only just about fits into a parking space, use quite a bit of fuel due to the extra weight and being higher up cars, especially newer ones with LED lights at night are eye level with drivers of standard cars and are dangerously blinding.

My next car will be a small/medium sized hatchback.

But the tyre inflaters should absolutely not be causing issues for people driving these cars.

I don't go round damaging people's clothes because they've come from SHEIN and primark who source them from foreign countries, therefore using air and ocean miles to get here.

My 2021 Kuga has far cleaner emissions than a lot of older, small petrol cars.

I think they just want to vandalise. Silly people.

The manufacturers are not helping either. Ford have stopped producing the SMax and Grand Cmax ( MPV alternatives to SUVs without high bonnet etc.] to concentrate on SUV production.

I drive an suv cos I live in a village down the bottom of a very narrow lane which will get flooded or iced in regularly. I grow most of my own veg, have solar panels and a heat pump for my fuel. I do what I can for the environment. I work in healthcare and had my tyres deflated outside the hospital a few weeks ago by these so called ‘eco warriors’ .
They have no idea of individual needs and the problems they cause, they need to find another way to highlight their cause.

I have an SUV, because I had cancer 9 years ago and I was in bed for six months, the muscles in my legs went to pot.

I can not get in and out of most standard cars without difficulty and this is only going to get worse as I get older, BUT I can step up in to and out of my CRV, easy to judge without knowing the backstory I guess. 🙄

Wow.

This is utterly surreal.

You don't agree with something legal so you let the tyres down, causing unknown levels of issues for the owner. Just bizarre.

Can I cut your grass because I don't like it long?

Or grass your fake grass.

I'm rural Scotland. Nearest village six miles, school wise.

I drive DH pick up at the moment because even my SUV can't cope with the potholes.

Only thing damaging roads here is local authority budget.

ChesterDrawz

That calculation is highly disingenuous, in that it only shows CO2 emitted in the production of a car, and not that emitted in its use- at which point, of course an ICE vehicle would start to draw ahead in the emissions stakes.

But you do have a point in that car manufacturers trying to convince us to buy massive electric SUVs isn't really going to solve a lot of the problems we're facing....😬

I can't believe there are people on here justifying it.

If you genuinely think SUVs are the reason our planet is burning you are so wildly off the mark I can hardly begin.

If you don't personally like them, fine. But they exist, they serve a purpose, they're legal and they are much less damaging than other things people do/own.

Maybe you should just drive a smaller car 🤷‍♀️

Why though?

Because there are mindless vandals around who think they can bully and intimdate people for doing something different from them?

All they are achieving is upset and inconvenience to innocent people going about their lives, and more energy being expended on the repair of the tyres.

Autobesity is a serious problem.

It's not just the environmental concerns, it's the fact they don't fit in parking spaces, make roads even narrower as a result, and are more likely to be fatal to others in a crash. They really are too big, too anti social, and too dangerous. They ought to be restricted to those who have a genuine need for such a vehicle. If you live in Wimbledon, you almost certainly don't.

https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/news/motoring-news/half-of-all-new-vehicles-are-too-wide-for-on-street-parking/

This is dreadful I am so sorry to hear this happened. Also what is the point of letting down the tyres, surely you will just pump them back up again and off you go?! Why don't they just put the note on your car? The note is useful and interesting. Why the need to be petty and inconvenience you?

I drive a large Range Rover and my reasons for doing so are -
Safety for me and my family. I want us to be as protected as possible when we are driving. The standard of some people's driving is appalling and I want to keep my family as safe as possible.
I also drive very carefully and have never had an accident.
It's a lovely car, looks great and amazing to drive.
I need the additional boot space it offers for kids scooters, musical instruments, school bags, shopping etc.
I love semi rurally and enjoy the fact that flooding, snow and ice is not an issue for us.

Maybe SUV owners shouldn't upset and inconvenience innocent people with their ridiculous unnecessary vehicles? Deflating tyres is hardly vandalism.

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@ClaudiaWankleman what if a small hatchback won't suit your needs?

I can remember a woman folding her arms watching us, as my son in law parked his Kuga in a p&c parking place. I jumped out and got their pram out, then my Mum got out by herself, this she couldn't do in a lower car. Then I got her wheelchair out. We all looked at her as if to say, does that justify us enough for you.

ShesGotaHeartofGold

Read the note the OP attached.

SUVs are, in fact, a major contributory factor to "the planet burning".

Can't get past the wrong spelling of tyre. Clowns.

Doesn't matter who's driving it its not fair

The big cars take up too much room