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I had a manufacture defective tire cut lose at 60 MPH, and tear the wheel well and fender to pieces, bend the brake line, and rip the Anti-lock break wire in half.

When that tread gets through slapping around inside of there, it looks like a Lumberjack took a 12lb sledge, and spent a day re-arranging the metal when you finally get off the road and get out to observe the damage.

That's why the tire shops won't re-mount an old tire onto your spare, even if the tread still has good depth. I think Discount Tire told me the age cut-off is only 5 years old. They won't touch it except for removal.

Send them over to Ohio, so that guy with the unwanted horses running in his pasture will have feed troughs for grain.

I dont wish to incriminate myself.

There is no life left in those tires. Time to replace.

This bulletin from the US Tire Manufacturers Assn says to never inflate over 40lb to seat the beads on low aspect and light truck tires. It does leave a question, though, as LT's often carry considerably more than that.
TIRE SEATING PRESSURE

Get her a set of Michelins Sam, after all, it's only money.

Is that her tire size ?

255-50x20 ?????

yes shop local.........if you can.........

Used to be you'd just throw the car/pickup take offs into a pile and run implements with them as you needed...

Now there's so many sizes it's hard to do.

We figured as much, Jim.

The guy that I use for farm tire repair told me that age was just as bad on tires as was anything else. Now, to be fair, a tractor or implement tire is probably going to last more years than a car tire, but they will still dry rot, and that's what he was talking about.

I'd replace those tires.

have three 4x4 pick ups.........

and like meaty 3 ply sidewalls........

Cooper ST Maxx here

Tires are inexpensive.........funerals are not...........

This, for the price of those Hankooks you can get probably get some real good AT Michelins.

My BIL had a his cousins family of five die when an old tire blew out on their mini van at freeway speeds and careened over guardrail falling twenty feet. Husband, wife, three kids gone because of a bad tire.

For safety's sake do it.

They will part when you don't expect it.She might love you a little more for it.

Quite seriously, I think the Michelins are the cheapest tire around per mile if you can wear them out. Out in rough pastures it's easy to puncture a sidewall on a radial tire.

I should not have posted that pic!


Getting a cyber beatdown....ouch....lol




Okay, even before posting this I had planned on replacing them, give me a little credit here now.

This was a RECENT discovery(last Friday?), not like I've been dwelling on the purchase for the last month.....




Tikka, yes, that is the size.
('11 Ford Explorer Limited)


The Hankooks I posted have chitty reviews, thinking about these bad boys instead.

https://www.tirerack.com/tires/tire...D&autoModClar=Limited#RatingsReviews

They look fine to me Sam ..

Well maybe not on the wife’s car. Lol

High speed blow out on a front tire ain't a good thing.
Especially if someone has never experienced it.
Get new tires....

EX wife, maybe!

I had an aunt that could wear out a set of tires on her Pontiac in three months. She call the hills on our road "Tickle tummy hills". Her car left the ground going over the top.

You've gone and done it now Sam. There's an unquenchable thirst for righteous Sunday afternoon beatdowns on the campfire ...

May I suggest you fellow slackers do a tire check on your wife's vehicle....


You guys that are wise enough to already know the condition don't worry.....grin