Age of tires on your tow vehicle/ When to replace?
What's the general consensus (age wise) to replace tires on tow vehicles?
Forum Discussion
CapriRacer wrote:
My take on aging of tires is that if you live in hot states (AZ, CA, NV, TX, and FL), the limit is 6 years. If you live in cold states (MN, WI, MT, ID, and ND), the limit is 10 years. And states in between are .... ah ...... in between.
Bit of a misconception on cold states there... Eastern MT and Western ND get darn hot in the summer, and cold in the winter! Look up a list of record temperatures by state it kind of interesting.
Any way, today's tires need to be carefully watched. I have some old ones hanging around here that are just fine. (Remember the Ford/Firestone deal from the late 80's - early 90's?)
My truck has 4 year old major name brand tiress on it, and they will not be traveling with me next summer! Cracked around the beads on all 4.
