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Manage Tire Wear and Maintenance Costs

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Larry Pollard's Abandoned Go Kart Track & Historic NASCAR Busch Series Collection

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What happens here

Larry describes the challenge of maintaining tires on the go-karts. Without the intentional application of vegetable oil, the track surface caused rapid tire wear. He recounts how, after the first weekend of operation, all the go-karts' recap tires (designed for concession go-karts with a white rubber layer underneath to show wear) were completely worn down to the white layer. This unexpected expense highlighted the need for the oil treatment to mitigate tire consumption and operational costs.

Goal: Identify strategies to reduce tire wear on go-karts.

Tools and materials

  • Go-karts — Operating on the track, requiring tire maintenance
  • Recap Tires — Standard tires for concession go-karts, with built-in wear indicators

What they say

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here how often did you have to change the tires on the carts with the oil on it it really slowed down the wear it helped that yeah remember the first night first weekend we opened got all done got our insurance got the inspection and got open Thursday no we opened Wednesday Thursday Friday and Saturday that was the first four nights were open man oh man there was people just everywhere and everything was good and and anyways I come in Sunday to check the carts just to kind of check everything out first weekend open I looked at all the tires and on them recap tires you get for concession carts they got a white rubber on underneath them so when they wear down the white rubber shows you can see that you got to change Tire I just went back there in the room and I'm looking at these tires and every one of the carts was white all the way around with with no oil on the track it just ground the tires off the first night four Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday night 16 carts Time 4 tires they were they were gone they were just ate up the tire and I said huh I thought we made some money here so that's when we started thinking about we got to put something on the track to to just to try to slow down the tire where

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