The highest speed I have driven in my life was 140 Miles per hour (225 Kilometers per hour)when I was in my very late teen years or very early 20's.
In retrospect that was stupid back then as the tires were only rated for 80 mph - and I could have had a catastrophic blowout.
I now run Z rated tires on my car so I don't have to worry about them coming apart at high speed (Z = greater than 149 mph). I've run Z rated tires since 1985 except the 1st set of tires on 2 cars (one of which I replaced the tires after about 5000 miles as they would not grip the road when cold and wet - very dangerous: I was stunned one fall day when it got into the 30's and I stopped at a normal stop on the way to work and the tires locked and skidded). I changed tires the next day to my preferred brand and Z rated tires (which gripped the road very well in the cold and wet and had decent traction in the winter).
Driving out west on certain interstates its quite common to hit 90 mph for sustained periods in hot weather (most everyone drives at those speeds out there).
Once when I was sleeping in the passenger seat and my wife was driving... down I-15 in Utah driving south from Idaho my wife was bored (miles after miles of flat straight desert with almost no traffic) and she and another car side by side raced to see what each car could do (or the driver was willing to do). My wife won the race by exceeding 120 MPH in a well maintained Hyundai Sonata with about 200,000 miles on it. I knew nothing about it at the time.
When I woke up my wife told me about it, and all I said casually was "the tires are rated for that, and I understand why you did that." I saw that as normal and that most everyone will try that at least once in their life - and I make sure that my tires can handle that kind of driving for safety reasons.
If you have a clear road where you don't have interfering traffic... Have fun...
Also, be ready to pay the largest speeding ticket of your life if you get caught.
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The highest speed I have driven in my life was 140 Miles per hour (225 Kilometers per hour)when I was in my very late teen years or very early 20's.
In retrospect that was stupid back then as the tires were only rated for 80 mph - and I could have had a catastrophic blowout.
I now run Z rated tires on my car so I don't have to worry about them coming apart at high speed (Z = greater than 149 mph). I've run Z rated tires since 1985 except the 1st set of tires on 2 cars (one of which I replaced the tires after about 5000 miles as they would not grip the road when cold and wet - very dangerous: I was stunned one fall day when it got into the 30's and I stopped at a normal stop on the way to work and the tires locked and skidded). I changed tires the next day to my preferred brand and Z rated tires (which gripped the road very well in the cold and wet and had decent traction in the winter).
Driving out west on certain interstates its quite common to hit 90 mph for sustained periods in hot weather (most everyone drives at those speeds out there).
Once when I was sleeping in the passenger seat and my wife was driving... down I-15 in Utah driving south from Idaho my wife was bored (miles after miles of flat straight desert with almost no traffic) and she and another car side by side raced to see what each car could do (or the driver was willing to do). My wife won the race by exceeding 120 MPH in a well maintained Hyundai Sonata with about 200,000 miles on it. I knew nothing about it at the time.
When I woke up my wife told me about it, and all I said casually was "the tires are rated for that, and I understand why you did that." I saw that as normal and that most everyone will try that at least once in their life - and I make sure that my tires can handle that kind of driving for safety reasons.
If you have a clear road where you don't have interfering traffic... Have fun...
Also, be ready to pay the largest speeding ticket of your life if you get caught.
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It's actually Jail time here.