Probably better swap them out Sammo. Dad had one on his pickup lose a cap and ruin a fender a couple years ago. $4400 worth at the body shop.
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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.
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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
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To be honest it appears that I should have been paying better attention to their condition. I knew the tread(depth) was fine but haven't bothered to really look at the tread, reach in the wheel well and check the 'grip'......
Guess I'm just used to wearing out tires on pickups and you replace them every 2-4 years.
And Jesus, I bet half the old farm trucks around here are running 20 year old tires.
Lesson learned!
Tikka, my next door neighbor is the tire guy in town and buy everything from him. Sells a bunch of Hankooks.
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.
Get her a set of Michelins Sam, after all, it's only money.
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.
"Maybe we're all happy."
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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.
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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.
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