Average life span for trailer tires?
I was just wondering when I should start thinking about new tires for my 2012 Outback? What is the average life span for these tires? Obviously they don't have a ton of miles but this summer will be o...
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Huntindog wrote:
I run Michelin XPS RIBS. I change them out at 5 years. They still look good, and I sell them fast on CL to help defray the cost of the new ones. Got 250.00 for the last set.
Since I am in Phoenix AZ, where the sun is brutal, I think that is as far as I want to push them. Probably only possible to get another year or so out of them before the dry rot starts appearing. At that point, they would be a hard sell.
You do tell the buyers that the tires are old, dried out, and no good don't you? You do tell them that the tires could pop any second?
Selling tires that you are scared of to an unsuspecting person is kind of well just (trying to be nice) a very wrong thing to do.
