Tires

haste maker wrote:
Take this for just my out look...I know that tires are to be replaced when they are 6 to 7 years old...but if my tires don't show any sign of wear or cracking I will only replaced the front tires at that time...the rear tires are dual's & if one of them blows out I still have the other one to get to a safe stop...but if a front tire blows out you maybe headed for the ditch...reason for my way of thinking is 48 years of being a truck driver with no wrecks...and I am not selling tires for a living...

Maybe I just had bad luck but I had some Michelins experience sidewall separation followed shortly by explosions when they were seven years old. Due to separation being in the sidewall there was no warning. The tires came on a 1991 F250 so that was back in 1998. The truck was not used for daily driving and the tires still had half of their tread on them and looked beautiful. When I contacted Michelin they admitted that they had that happen quite a bit with RV's and since I hauled a camper with mine they lumped me into that category even though I told them that the truck was always stored empty or with a significant amount of the load on jacks. They then scolded me for not having changed the tires sooner while simultaneously refusing to tell me how I was supposed to know to do that.

Those were the last Michelin tires that I have owned and I refuse to buy any more, mostly because of their arrogance.

Anyway, the consequential damage was much more than the replacement cost so I keep an eye on the age of my tires now. The consequential damage on a motorhome can be much more than on a truck of any type.