Posted by LJD on April 23, 2012 at 04:45:33 from (75.226.71.6):
In Reply to: O/T Tire age posted by 37Chief on April 22, 2012 at 23:08:28:
Some car/truck tires are fine when 15-20 years old and some are bad when only five years old. It all depends on the rubber-compound used. As far as I can tell, there is NO way to know when buying. It's hard enough to find out who actually makes a tire and country of origin.
Our 95 Suburu has Douglas tires on it that are 18 years old and are fine. The rubber looks like new.
My daughter has a 2009 Ford Escape with 40K miles on it and all the tires are dry-rotted and cracked and need to be replaced. Has General tires on it.
My 1983 diesel plow truck got a used set of Goodrich tires on it in 1991. The tires are too old to have acurate DOT date codes. They still look perfect.
My bro-in-law called me recently (because I'm the mechanic in the family). He has a 2010 Honda Odyssey van. He failed inspection because his tires are rotted and though he was being ripped off. Date code shows they are 3 years old.
A few legistators in New York state are trying to pass a law so it will be illegal to have tires that are more then 10 years old. The way I see it - it should be illegal to make tires with rubber so bad it goes bad that fast.
From what I've seen - the tires go bad from the outside in. So, if they look good, they probably are good. I've had one blow apart from rot that looked OK. I've had several blow apart that WERE obvisously dry-rotted.
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