Rob
Tires are one of those safety items that should always be checked before a trip. A few years ago I was going to take a trip to a Sunbeam event but when I checked the tires, one of them had a split in the tread all the way around – no trip on those tires. Safety first.
Tire manufactures, I believe, state replace every 5 years but then they want to make money. Small check and cracks in the side wall I believe should be OK but cracks or splits in the tread area is a bad sign. You have to use your best judgement at all time in this area.
I one set of All Season Tire that should never have gotten that designation. I know for certain that when the temperature drops below 45 degrees F and its wet they will slide and lose traction; they are summer tires only.
Ron Fraser
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Subject: Re: [Tigers] Tiger's Tires
It was a dumb question when I knew the answer was never to take the chance on tires that old. It does cause me pain to see tires with only 200 miles of wear go to the recycler especially when their size replacements are no longer available. But that beats doing fender damage from a blowout.
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On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 6:16 PM steve wick <srwick at hotmail.com <mailto:srwick at hotmail.com> > wrote:
My cars don't get many miles a year as well, but some of those miles end up being at freeway speeds. I figure I'd rather spend $500 on tires than risk a $50,000 car or my body. I think the recommendation is change them every 7 years, and that's what I do.
Steve
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I'm one of those drivers that doesn't put more than a few hundred miles on my MR2 Spyder or will put on the Tiger each year. I wonder if people with several infrequent use cars change all of their cars' tires every 10 years or less. Realizing the danger of running old tires particularly at highway speed, are 36 year old BFG TA tires even useable at speeds under 45 MPH? I should have used the 235/50xR13's more before the Tiger's long layup.
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