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I told him, back in July that his tread was worn thin and he better put on new tires or he was going to be changing a flat on the shoulder of the highway.
He is one year older than me he doesn't like to get advice from the little brother.
So on Friday he got to change a tire on the shoulder of Highway 213.

Yikes.

You reckon he learned anything?

Is that a Goodyear from China?

Man, that’s got read left on it. 🤣 I’ve got a family that moved in down the road from Us last year, all but one of their cars have tires that look like racing slicks. A little over a month ago, the wife and I were out walking and I noticed their Nissan truck tires had the radial belts showing they were so worn. About three days later, they were on the side of the road with a blowout themselves. To this day, they are still running the spare and three bald tires on that truck.

While putting new shocks on my Dads 85 s10 i looked at the tires.

From the outside they don't show any dry cracks but while looking from the other side you can see dry cracks starting.

I have not driven it very far,just around the place here but i think that i will start looking for prices on some new 14's.

Hope everyone is ok..

New rubber is a big expense. Some folks just don’t have extra right now. Many folks out of work, and having to make tough choices. Sometimes a used tire purchase is better than just holding your breath and hoping.

Heck. that’s got plenty of tread left on it. I run em till the belts start showing. Long as you as ain’t doing starsky & hutch type driving

Last car in college was a 1965 Ford Falcon. Ran well, rusted out floorboards. Was college poor, ran $5 used tires from the tire shop. Worst was when working a summer construction job the foreman noticed an egg-like bulge coming out of the tread area. Made it to the tire shop and got another. Young, dumb and poor, wood drive home 600 miles each way for Thanksgiving and Christmas. After getting married and starting to buy and fix vehicles for a profit, drove it to the scrapyard, took the battery out and got $35 for it.

Well...you know these big city types.......always in one hell of a hurry.

With that little tread left, I'm surprised that didn't hydroplane with rain in the forecast.

Heck,every California transplant here in Colorado are running tires like that when winter hits. They don't know how to drive in the snow or ice and then try to do it with bald .

That’s actually one of the few pickups in North Carolina i’ve seen that didn’t have a wooden flat bed and a beagle hound box.

MY BROTHER!!!!! Mine was a 64 and it too had a hole in the floorboard.....only difference was Dad had just put tires on it when I inherited it. 1970....ahhhhhh those were the days!

When I counseled my brother, two months ago, I told him "You are not a broke college kid who can't afford new tires."
In fact, my brother has over $500 grand in his 401K. He just bought a new Tesla for $45 grand. He has an engineering degree from Georgia Tech.

"With that little tread left, I'm surprised that didn't hydroplane with rain in the forecast."

Yes. It rains all the time up here in the Smokey Mountains and I also told him that he was liable to hydroplane and have a wreck.
He was not interested in my advice.

I actually thought this was gonna be one of them Golden Corral stories.

Sure had a blowout .

He’s an engineer, they always know better, just ask them. It doesn’t look like he was down to the wear bars so there was still engineered life left.

I always thought it prudent to spend money on tires and brakes.