Excellent point Tom.
I was told by a family friend, who owned a large tire store, that a
tire has a 7 year shelf life. Tires older than that were scrapped.
He was talking about time in storage, wrapped up, in a dark warehouse.
Bryan
"Stewart, Thomas (NPG)" wrote:
>
> A trailer story from last week-- Last week I used my trailer to haul a '40
> Ford coupe--went about 100 miles up Interstate 5 no problems- (I service my
> trailer regularly) However I did realize that the tires were about 7 years
> old but looked perfect. The next day we were towing unloaded and the right
> front exploded and tore the fender all to shreds. Moral--Know how old your
> trailer tires are. I now have 5 new Michelins.
>
> Tom Stewart
> # 385 Monza
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