[Kenth]

Originally Posted by george kujanski

Just like post #17, the tead on my tires just peeled off one day in my garage. True, they were 30 years old, but what is a good limit?? 15? 20? Why take a chance?

George

It reminds me of when I put on my best dress shoes for a wedding.
Just as we were walking to the car, it felt strange under my feet, the soles were still on the hall floor! Those shoes hadn't been worn in a long time, I must admit.

Kenth

[The Champ]

Having experienced a tire that still looked new fail that was always parked inside (except on multi day car shows) on the interstate back in the early 2000's, I get new tires every 7 years. Luckily, I pulled over before the tire blew, but it had a knot in the tread surface the size of my fist by the time I got the wheel and tire off the car.

My philosophy is, if I can't afford $100 per year (roughly) for tires for my fun car, I can't afford the car. I've got to buy to complete sets of tires this spring (for the GTO and the Camaro) and $1400 should come close to handling the 8 tires including mounting and balancing. I run 17's on both cars.

[burd]

Growing up near Woodward, they don’t last very long.

[Formulajones]

Originally Posted by HWYSTR455

People have been warned, all that can be done. If they want to risk body damage because of being too cheap to put new tires on at proper intervals, it's on them.

Sad, but true.



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I've found many people are too cheap to do a lot of things they should be doing, and tires are no exception LOL

[twilightTA]

Originally Posted by Kenth

It reminds me of when I put on my best dress shoes for a wedding.
Just as we were walking to the car, it felt strange under my feet, the soles were still on the hall floor! Those shoes hadn't been worn in a long time, I must admit.

Kenth

I literally just had this happen to me a couple of weeks back. I hadn’t been wearing my barely used dress shoes since COVID. I started wondering if the floor was giving away on me and then found that my sole had fallen off.

Rubber doesn’t last long. On our old cars you have to assume that anything that’s original rubber is shot and needs replacement.

[android 211]

I had a Goodyear Wingfoot develop a separated tread at 50 mph and quickly then blow out. It was only 2 or 3 years old. The Firestone Firehawks on my GTO are from 2011 and still ride very smooth and no problems. They didn't even flat spot after sitting without moving for several years. Hate to get rid of them with most of the tread still on them but I guess I have to. I was holding off waiting to restore a set of 14x7 Rallye IIs I have to replace the 14x6s. I know my '69 should have 14x6s but I like the look of the 14x7s.

[gtospieg]

If you smoke your tires every chance you get you'll need to replace them before age can get to them....problem solved.

[geeteeohguy]

Originally Posted by twilightTA

I literally just had this happen to me a couple of weeks back. I hadn’t been wearing my barely used dress shoes since COVID. I started wondering if the floor was giving away on me and then found that my sole had fallen off.

Rubber doesn’t last long. On our old cars you have to assume that anything that’s original rubber is shot and needs replacement.

Funny how 'rubber doesn't last long' is only a recent thing....the past 15 years or so. I have a pair of dress boots that were last re-soled in 1977 and the rubber is still fine. in 2011, restoring a '67 GTO, we installed repro rubber on the front end....dust boots and bushings. While waiting for the engine, 6 months later walking around the car, we saw a bunch of stuff under the car, thinking 'dead mice?" Nope. All the new rubber had rotted and was now on the ground. We ended up taking the 45 year old stuff out of the trash, washing it in kerosene, and re-installing it. It's still on the car today.

In 2016, I ordered a set of Coker inner tubes for my Model T. I removed the 45 year old Firestone tubes and installed the new Cokers. Within a year, the valve stems had rotted off the new tubes. I re-installed the 45 year old Firestone tubes and they are still on the car 9 years later.

New tires and new rubber are pretty much junk due to the false agenda being pushed about 'the global warming crisis'. Key chemicals have been removed from the equation. That's why even your rubber bands are turning hard and rotting in a few months, where before, they lasted YEARS. I have and do run old bias ply tires with no worries if visibly good. They don't explode and destroy fenders like steel belted radials do!

[HWYSTR455]

Originally Posted by gtospieg

If you smoke your tires every chance you get you'll need to replace them before age can get to them....problem solved.

That's my motto!

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[The Champ]

Originally Posted by geeteeohguy

Funny how 'rubber doesn't last long' is only a recent thing....the past 15 years or so.

It's not just the last 15 years or so.

My experience, posted earlier, was about tires I purchased in 1995 (that were new old stock Uniroyal redline radials) produced in 1989.