Tires
I have a 6 year old, 3/4 ton truck mainly used to pull our travel trailer. It only has 26,000 mile on it and tire tread is fine however age is starting to concern me. I have read it is recommended to ...
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Wade44 wrote:Grit dog wrote:
I'm not advocating using 14 year old tires, but 6 years, if not checked or cracking, is not time to replace. If you do, it's only out of lack of experience or paranoia.
Among some other possible reasons which I'll refrain from listing. I have a good relationship with my local GMC dealer whom I've dealt with for 20 years. He calls me and I steal them when they sell trucks, add custom wheels, and get take offs. I wish they did it more often. I have 3 or 4 sets out in a barn right now that I don't even know the born out dates without looking, but I'd bet most if not all are at least 5 years ago. On my workhorse, a 2014 3500, the tires born on date are 2016. There are plenty of other things in life that are true reasons to get skeered about.
87? 88? She's a sweetheart. Have to have respect for someone shooting something like that in the garage, or did you do it outside?
Agree with you on the tire age thing. Yeah if they are checked like Burbmans pic, I wouldn’t run them.
The GMC is an 86 model. Those are the original colors. Painted in the shop, not outside. Partly due to bugs n dirt but also temperature. All the paint/clear was in the last couple months when it’s 40deg and raining most of the time.
