Michelin sidewall cracking . Need advice

J-Rooster wrote:

wolfe10 wrote:
hershey,

A lot of the "why some crack and some don't" is the "care and feeding" they receive. All these are good for the tires and materially reduce side wall cracking and other signs of deterioration:

Driving the coach-- sitting for months without moving is hard on tires-- the emoluments that protect the tire migrate to the surface when the tires heats up while driving.

Storing out of the sun-- indoors, under cover, or with white tire covers if outdoors.

Maintain correct tire pressure.

I have seen 2 year old tires badly cracked-- coach sat unmoved in outdoors with the tires uncovered in Phoenix, AZ. Our tires are 7 years old and zero cracks, but if we are parked for more than 2 nights, I put on white tire covers.

And, again to to OP, what is the tire age from the DOT number?

This is a excellent hard hitting post Brett! Well done! I've done everything that was suggested on the Michelin Tire Care part of there website (Tire are to expensive to be ignored) IMHO! My tires lasted 10 years before they started to crack! I drove home on those Michelin tires, then got them replaced with the same tires XRV's. Michelins website has a post on cracked tires and, Yes you can drive with cracks on your tires if they fall within a certain range of cracking according to Michelins website.

I guess I would have to agree with Brett. Like said, my Michelins have never cracked but we do fulltime so they get exercised frequently. We only travel 4000 miles a year now, same places summer, same places winter so I hope that is sufficient to keep the tires flexed and safe. I do pamper them...always covered and I'm very religious about tire pressure. Checking tires is a lot easier now because we spend more time in the same place and only move every 3 weeks or so.