Tires - The 10 Year Rule
Hey gang, Regarding big, DP tires... I know most adhere to this rule and some prefer to replace tires within 7 years or so of date code. Others replace the steers every 5 and the drives every 1...
Forum Discussion
Desert Captain wrote:
"So your codes showed 5.5 years at the time of the incident? Or...? "
Yes, the three oldest were all 5.5 years old with 4/32" of tread and looked fine and all three were on the rear. I normally start shopping at five years but as noted, my bad, just lost track of how old they were getting. When I buy new tires I always have them put on the front and rotate the fronts to the rear. As noted in a subsequent post losing a rear is bad but a blowout on one of the fronts has a lot more potential for disaster.
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Roger that.
I didn't realize you had already been on a 5 year maximum plan. I thought you started that subsequent to your incident.
Seems like you're giving yourself a pretty good beating when most don't replace tires earlier than 6 or 7 years... and many go to 10... and some even longer.
If anything, a blowout at 5 1/2 years would make me question the tire quality much more than my change-out plan.
