[HN Gopher] What those strips hanging off of truck wheels are for
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       What those strips hanging off of truck wheels are for
        
       Author : Brajeshwar
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2022-02-14 15:10 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
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       | nature556 wrote:
       | TL;DR they're wheel rotation markers :)
        
         | noughtme wrote:
         | to check if mechanical brakes have released and aren't seized
         | after having been parked.
        
       | ecf wrote:
       | Website is literally unreadable without an ad blocker.
        
       | xxpor wrote:
       | Ah interesting, I assumed they were just a newer version of the
       | wheel nut markers. The actual explanation makes more sense.
        
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