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yep..........that be me.......... but my tires are road worthy.............
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[quote=tikkanut] I'm a Tireaholic kinda guy................ sucker for DTD rebate holiday sales do you have somebody that will mount them locally? when I buy.......I buy all new wheels/tires/lugs......... sell the old stuff......Brown truck drops them off fully balanced & ready to bolt on... DTD from Phoenix usually......my last set for '14 Tacoma.... approx $1400......less $320 rebate......sold old for $550....... made my total $530 for 4 new tires/wheel/lugs......Cooper ST Maxx Any idea what those rims weigh? Thanks linky.......DTD....these are 14" info says 14x7 are 15# I think the factory 17" wheels on my Taco weigh twice that at least no...........thats the SxS wheels......... Taco wheels weigh in at 22 ish
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Yep, tires wear out from age alone, no matter how much tread is left.
On a Suzuki Sidekick I drove mostly on back roads, I bought a good looking set of four used tires and ran them for years, though not a lot of miles. The rig is light weight and does not wear tires much, but after 6 or 7 years they started having one flat after another. The tire guy said that they had outlasted their design life and were starting to break down inside, even though there was lots of tread left. Bought a new set, no more flats.
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Good evening Dwayne and company, thanks for the replies!
This was a serious eye opener.
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I would not let my wife drive to the grocery store on those tires. Time for new ones NOW. What he said. Summer heat will make them even more no buenoer.
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She works from home and we rarely travel.... If that tire is on a vehicle on blocks in the yard with no battery and a seized engine you're good to go.
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Heat is hard on Petroleum based products.
You don’t let the rubber on motor driven equipment deteriorate, just like you don’t let the rubber in your wallet deteriorate.
Change your rubbers out frequently. It just might save your life.
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Vehicle is dry docked in the garage pending incoming hail storms.
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Sammer ,
No need for high dollar tires if she doesn't drive much , why spend a bunch for tires that will sit parked in the driveway ..
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I counted. I have 28 tires on various vehicles/trailers.The two highway trucks and horse trailer gets replaced, everything else lasts until it doesn't.I have a John Deere 40 ground driven manure spreader, probably a 1950 vintage.It still has original tires on it. My 74 tri-axle hay trailer only travels about 10 miles round trip 2- 3 times a year.Those tries don't get change out due to age.I do keep all tires .
Thanks loads. I had to count mine. 36 in all if you count 4 spares on vehicles.
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Ol Mike, I was thinking we would keep the vehicle another 2-5 years.
Put some super sport tires on and be fancy.
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I counted. I have 28 tires on various vehicles/trailers.The two highway trucks and horse trailer gets replaced, everything else lasts until it doesn't.I have a John Deere 40 ground driven manure spreader, probably a 1950 vintage.It still has original tires on it. My 74 tri-axle hay trailer only travels about 10 miles round trip 2- 3 times a year.Those tries don't get change out due to age.I do keep all tires .
Thanks loads. I had to count mine. 36 in all if you count 4 spares on vehicles. I'm not even going to try and count them.
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I'll add that I have been told by 2 different tire shops that I should replace trailer tires every three years regardless of mileage.
Americas Tires wouldn't touch a small trailer tire that was over 5 years old. They recommend replacing a full size spare after 7 years.
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Sammer ,
No need for high dollar tires if she doesn't drive much , why spend a bunch for tires that will sit parked in the driveway .. Good call, especially if they they are going to rot before they wear.
Fight fire, save lives, laugh in the face of danger.
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I bought this truck earlier this year for $6K. Only had 60K miles, and 12 year old tires with perfect tread! You guys just cost me some money. But thank you.
_______________________________________________________ An 8 dollar driveway boy living in a T-111 shack
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Old dude that used to farm the place north of us had a mid 70’s Versatile that must have still had its original tires. Looked like it had 8 inner tubes on it. No telling how much extra fuel that slippage was costing him.
Great Aunt had an old combine out behind the barn that still had WWII surplus airplane tires on it when I was a kid. Grandad said they couldn’t get new tires for anything during the war but they could buy takeoff tires from bombers that would work on combines for the drive tires. Said they might get stuck but they wouldn’t sink or dig into the mud, just sit and spin.
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In my experience General tires are very poor quality. Arizonan (sold by Discount Tires) are OK quality for a very good price. I had several sets on my 2009 Camry that never gave me the claimed mileage, but Discount Tire always gave me credit adjustment when I replaced them and I was good. Finally replaced the Camry recently. What I am really pleased with are Yokohama. They are really holding up well on my 2006 Chevy truck and were reasonably priced. If I were needing a new set and I were planning on keeping the truck/SUV for another 2-3 years/30-40K miles, I would seriously look at Yokohama. Cooper is also supposed to be real good, but I have no experience with them. Michelin makes a good car tire, but their truck tires used be poor quality - weak sidewalls. Not sure how they are now, as that was a number of years ago. Just my .02 worth.
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Same club had me sign a sheet informing me
My tires are 10 years old ....so what ...they are stored 1\2 the year......run them tires on the rear till u get the best of them...
I work harder than a ugly stripper....
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Mom got a new Exploder a couple years ago and they had to put some tires on it a week or so ago. Factory Hankooks were complete dogschit, bald as eggs and down to the wear bars in 28k of easy highway driving. Only thing available locally was more Hankooks or COOP Ironman radials. For $40 less a tire dad said fugg it and had them slap a set of Ironmans on it, figured they couldn’t last anything less than what the Kooks did. 50K and Fraud puts on Hankooks? My how they have fallen. Michelin or Bridgestone are the only brands I will touch anymore.I know that Michelin owns one of those oriental brands and it might be Hankook. It does not mean they use the same compounding process and Michelin is the king of compounding tires.
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