New Tires
Just had a blow out on I 275 in Fl.( that was dangerous). My five year old properly inflated Michelin tire disintegrated (coachnet to the rescue). Since my expensive Michelin tire only lasted five ye...
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Coach-man wrote:
Elwood, I feel your pain, I had one of my OEM ,(Chinese), blow out coming down I-75. I replaced the one year old tires with Good Year BFG, 16 ply tires. In addition to the one that blew, two others had bubbles so I changed all four at the same time! I hope these last little longer! In your post you state the tires were five years old, did you check the date stamp on the tire? They could be closer to 6 years old from date of manufacture! Anything over five, in my opinion, should be checked for cracking and dry rot at least annually. Both from personal knowledge and in reading the posts here, I have seen tires with perfectly good tread blow out from dry rot or some other issue! I would spend the $$ on "good" tires. I just got the repair estimate from my insurance company, $3k in damage caused by a tire failure!
GoodYear and BFG are two different companies? 16 ply tires?
Did you install Goodyear G614 LRG 14 ply tires or G114 LRH 16 ply tires?
Chris
