Spare to match, rotate 5.

brooks379 wrote:
Had a flat the other day in my wife's 1999 Honda so I pulled out the original spare and put it on. Got about a mile down the road and that tire blew up. Went to a tire store and bought two tires. When the tech looked at my blown out spare he said that tire is a 1999 and is just no good anymore even though it has never been on the car. The tire was on a spare rack on the back door covered....Sun and heat killed it !!

SweetLou wrote:

brooks379 wrote:
Had a flat the other day in my wife's 1999 Honda so I pulled out the original spare and put it on. Got about a mile down the road and that tire blew up. Went to a tire store and bought two tires. When the tech looked at my blown out spare he said that tire is a 1999 and is just no good anymore even though it has never been on the car. The tire was on a spare rack on the back door covered....Sun and heat killed it !!

I bought a 1972 Ford F250 from an oldtimer, I changed the front set of tires out and saved them because I am still running the old set of Kirkland tires he bought back in 2000. I am out in the Desert heat and when these old ones blow I plan to run the other two I took off until they blow. Been 4 years now. Granted I don't go far but its now an experiment to see how long I can go with them.

Groover wrote:

SweetLou wrote:

brooks379 wrote:
Had a flat the other day in my wife's 1999 Honda so I pulled out the original spare and put it on. Got about a mile down the road and that tire blew up. Went to a tire store and bought two tires. When the tech looked at my blown out spare he said that tire is a 1999 and is just no good anymore even though it has never been on the car. The tire was on a spare rack on the back door covered....Sun and heat killed it !!

I bought a 1972 Ford F250 from an oldtimer, I changed the front set of tires out and saved them because I am still running the old set of Kirkland tires he bought back in 2000. I am out in the Desert heat and when these old ones blow I plan to run the other two I took off until they blow. Been 4 years now. Granted I don't go far but its now an experiment to see how long I can go with them.

They built them better in '72 :)

Just be aware that there can be collatoral damage from a blowout that far exceeds the cost of a tire. My 1991 F250 was technically totalled by cosmetic damage from 2 blowouts and the damage was just from the flying rubber. If I had lost control it could have been much more. I had a bid of $4,500 to fix the sheet metal and exhaust system damage.

larry barnhart wrote:

RideSlow wrote:
What really got me thinking about this was I was 100 miles from home, which ain't much, but we absolutely had to be back early Sunday. I was just gonna rent a car and send the wife, she could handle what was needed at home. Truck is a 2007, no TPMS, but it is a diesel, about 4300 on the front axle all the time. Truck is primarily for towing or hauling, just turned 73,000, so I did not think a ten year old spare would be unsafe. This will be my last serious truck, as I get closer to full retirement, we will be on the road more. Those cracks on the spare are I what I thot I would see on a sunbaked field find at 30 years, not a barely used spare.

When in doubt I always buy new tires. I really don't wait for that to happen as we all know how bad stopping along the highway can be. My wife thanks me often for doing the things to keep her safe. This makes me proud to hear.

chevman

Groover wrote:
If you are like me throwing away a $200 tire that has never been on the ground is painful. Then again, you are only averaging 7,300 miles per year so you are not going to wear out 4 tires in the normal 6 year tire lifespan anyway so there really is no point going to extra effort to put this tire into the rotation plan. Just do the cheapest thing for the spare that you are comfortable with. I would rather 4 good tires with no spare and plan on calling road service in an emergency than plan on putting a 10 year old tire on the ground.