Continental challenged us to create a tire out of recyclable material

Continental challenged us to create a tire out of recycled materials.

Supercar Blondie’s Nathan Bain, our resident DIY specialist, volunteered to do it, and he decided to create a tire out of recycled materials.

Nathan gave it its best shot, but it didn’t go too well.

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Can you make a tire out of… cans?

Nathan came up with the idea to use empty cans.

He carefully and patiently glued a bunch of cans together, creating two ‘layers’, so to speak, of cans around the wheel of a Suzuki Jimny.

Visually, the collection of cans did look surprisingly similar to an actual tire.

But then Nathan fired up the engine in the Jimny, put it in gear, and set off, and everything went wrong quite quickly.

The ‘tire’ disintegrated completely after about 10 seconds and 10 inches.

“We should probably leave this to the professionals and get Continental tires instead,” Nathan said.

Well, he’s not wrong.

So Nathan’s tire might be sustainable in the sense that it didn’t cost much to make, but it’s not reliable.

Unlike Continental’s UltraContact NXT tire, which is one of the most sustainable tires on the market, made with 65 percent recycled material, and it’s reliable as well.

Continental has been doing this for 153 years

Continental was founded in 1871, and they’ve spent the last 153 years perfecting their tires.

Safety is and always has been the priority, but obviously there’s also an extra focus on sustainability these days, hence the idea to challenge us to create a tire out of recyclable materials.

It also explains why it feels natural to pick Continental tires, regardless of the type of tire you need, which is definitely a better option than Nathan’s ‘can’ tire