2 year old tires - small cracks
Hello, My friend is leaving on a three week cross country trip soon. He replaced his tires 2 years ago and noticed these cracks recently. The tire shop says not to worry that they are fine. These...
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Valkyriebush wrote:
I'd change them now.
No, no, no.....not based on that alone.
The condition is commonly called "surface checking" and is very common, especially on larger size tires.
It's unlikely that any of the "cracks" will become more than 1 mm deep and if so they will be fine. After a few more years you might notice that the cracks are getting longer and deeper. THEN is the time to think about replacement.
By all means do check the date code though, which will give you and idea of how close to watch them.
