Posted by John in Mich on December 11, 2019 at 12:09:31 from (98.224.238.10):
In Reply to: Tire age posted by 37chief on December 11, 2019 at 08:40:14:
All good info below. For highway vehicles and trailers I use 7 years as my absolute replacement time. This may seem to be a waste but failure at highway speed is worse, in my opinion. A little side note: growing up in a farm invironment, we always had several spare tires for our cars, truck and farm equipment. Many were 16 inch and we often had car tires on a wagon. About 1980 I bought my wife a new car and took over her 1973 Maverick as my knock about and go to work car. This car originally had 14" tires. Looking at tires in the barn I found 2 16" tires mounted on Ford 5 lug wheels that would fit on the car. One was a US Royal 6.00x16 S3. S3 was a designation for synthetic rubber, as I understood it, made during WW2. Clearence inside the rear wheel housing was about 1/4 inch to the top of the fender liner. I used to joke that a piece of paper in the back seat would cause the tire to rub. For several months I enjoyed an interesting drivability. One night it came to an end. I had just exited an expressway and stopped at an intersection. POW! The tire blew out. Now, I'm a little smarter (?) and would not try to use an old tire on a vehcile. On my tractors, what ever holds air though all (umteen) have very nice rubber...now. The same is true with my 3 trailers, 24' enclosed (3 years old), 20' flatbed (4 years old) and 8' utility (new ones in the barn ready to install).
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