**how Old Are Your Tires?!!** Please Watch!!

[GasSavers_Ven]

Please watch this from abc news. This will help you if you are about to buy tires or maybe make you reconsider over inflating your tires. http://abcnews.go.com:80/Video/playerIndex?id=4826897

[theholycow]

That video has been making the rounds on the internet, and the issue has been making the rounds on the internet and the general media. As usual, the media has taken a valid issue and far overblown it for sensationalism. I wouldn't recommend getting your car brought to the tire shop on a flatbed because your tires are 6 years and one day old, but you might want to reconsider keeping tires that have been exposed to UV for ten years...

As for overinflation, check the many quotes from Tirerack, a police publication, and some others in my tire pressure post.

[thisisntjared]

cant watch videos at work. cliffnotes?

[SteveX82]

Running around on 8 year old tires is FAR less of an issue than all the ignorant SUV drivers driving at 80mph with a trailer in 100? weather with 15psi in their tires. Overheating from underinflation and overloading causes almost all tread separations.

[mini-e]

Originally Posted by SteveX82

Running around on 8 year old tires is FAR less of an issue than all the ignorant SUV drivers driving at 80mph with a trailer in 100? weather with 15psi in their tires. Overheating from underinflation and overloading causes almost all tread separations.

If ABC wanted to do some good they would have mention ed the importance of proper inflation in the story. This piece has the production values and use of language appropriate for a 6 year old. I thought they were being sarcastic at times, like a saturday night live skit or something. I never watch T.V. so maybe I am behind the times.

[slurp812]

Originally Posted by SteveX82

Running around on 8 year old tires is FAR less of an issue than all the ignorant SUV drivers driving at 80mph with a trailer in 100? weather with 15psi in their tires. Overheating from underinflation and overloading causes almost all tread separations.

Wasn't it Ford who recommended only 24psi in their SUV tires, so it would ride soft, like a car?????

[theholycow]

Cliff notes: http://www.safetyresearch.net/tires.htm

Basically, don't install "new" tires that have sat on the shelf for 6 years or more, because they supposedly become dangerous.

Originally Posted by SteveX82

Overheating from underinflation and overloading causes almost all tread separations.

[Jay2TheRescue]

The last set of tires on my Buick lasted about 10 years since I only drive that car about 2,000 miles a year. My current tires on the beast are almost 3 years old, and the tires on the Buick are about 18 months old. Rusty's tires are 5 or 6 years old.

[thisisntjared]

Originally Posted by theholycow

Cliff notes: http://www.safetyresearch.net/tires.htm

Basically, don't install "new" tires that have sat on the shelf for 6 years or more, because they supposedly become dangerous.

thankyou very much!

i dont know if i worry about it too much. ive had blowouts where my sidewall was completely gone by the time i stopped going 80 before (in my younger and probably dumber years) and i could safely pull and change the tire. but even then i would never push any tire too hard on public roads where tire failure would cause a crash.

then again it was usually the rear tire and my rear sway bar was so stiff that even though the sidewall was completely gone the rim never touched the ground.

anyway, whats the big deal about putting the psi to the max on older tires? does the video say that too much tire pressure will cause a premature blowout or something?

anyway, nothing will ever convince me to back down on tire pressure, all my blowouts were at pretty low pressure, often from forgetting to pump it back up a couple weeks after an auto-x

[theholycow]

Originally Posted by thisisntjared

anyway, whats the big deal about putting the psi to the max on older tires? does the video say that too much tire pressure will cause a premature blowout or something?

I didn't have the patience to sit through the whole video, but I jumped through it skipping a couple seconds at a time and they did not mention inflation. I googled for a transcript but didn't find anything about inflation either.

anyway, nothing will ever convince me to back down on tire pressure, all my blowouts were at pretty low pressure, often from forgetting to pump it back up a couple weeks after an auto-x

I thought most auto-xers add pressure for events.

After all the experience I have with tire pressure (as described in my tire pressure post), I too can't be swayed from running increased pressure.

Originally Posted by swng

Then can donut spares last longer than 6 years, if they have not been unduly exposed to UV?

Despite what the tire salesman and the alarmist sensationalist media says, your donut is most likely fine unless it has visible defects.

Originally Posted by slurp812

Wasn't it Ford who recommended only 24psi in their SUV tires, so it would ride soft, like a car?????

Yes, and it's still industry standard practice today, the marketing department (who wants low pressure to sell cars on a soft ride) just has to compromise more with the legal and engineering departments (who want higher pressure).