News Article about Tire Age Limits
Something we RVers know all to well, now "!!!EXPOSED!!!" in our ever vigilant media: ### American tire companies have helped to defeat proposed laws in eight states that would require inspection of ...
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Would NOT. Awhile ago I had a one-ton Dodge passenger van. Came with some nice Goodyear tires 8.00/16.5 (note no "R" - these things were bias ply OEM on a 1971. Quite a few years later it needed tires and I decided on two new tires for the front and the spare (never used) plus a never-used "new" tire (label on it) I found at the Firestone dealer. The tires wore out in half the miles the originals had! The goody had gone out of that rubber!
By the way I got "take offs" for the front. I later learned that a commercial customer isn't going to have tires "taken off" because s/he doesn't like the look. It's going to be for some more fundamental reason. In my case, never could get a smooth ride. Balance? Ply shifts? I don't know. Before long I got our first set of radials and they were wonderful...
I have an unused spare in our coach from when it was new in 2002. Afraid to run it. I've had old tires fail catastrophically and it's not pretty.
By the way I got "take offs" for the front. I later learned that a commercial customer isn't going to have tires "taken off" because s/he doesn't like the look. It's going to be for some more fundamental reason. In my case, never could get a smooth ride. Balance? Ply shifts? I don't know. Before long I got our first set of radials and they were wonderful...
I have an unused spare in our coach from when it was new in 2002. Afraid to run it. I've had old tires fail catastrophically and it's not pretty.
