NEW Tires!

[Xevin]

Glad you like those Rich. I was always curious about those.

My bro has about 12,000 miles on those Ptlas tires. He is still happy with them.

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[richparker]

^IDK if I like them, I liked the price. They were what the Grabbers use to be, $600 for the set. Looks like the Grabbers are ~$800 for a set on eBay now and my LTS quoted me $1200 for a set, FFS.

The cheap ass no-name tires were $500 a set.
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[HarryFD]

[HarryFD]

[petrol punk]

Here tires only last 5 years if the car is parked outside regardless of mileage. Intense UV and dry heat dries them out. I had 33x10.5's and a welded diff on my 4cyl Tacoma and in the rain I would accidentally get sideways shifting into 2nd with 5 year old tires.
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[Nitramrebrab72]

[Bobs67vwagen]

The original michelin xzx's were made in france. Do you know where the current ones you spoke of are made? Thanks bob

[SGKent]

[richparker]

I ran the Vantras for a while, they are a great tire! What pressure are you running?

I drop shit and shit goes flying all the time in my garage, I’ve lost so many small items. Then I spend the rest of the time I have left looking for them and sometimes nothing gets done, definitely frustrating. It’s nice when things go our way once and a while and it lands at your feet.
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[SGKent]

[raygreenwood]

[HarryFD]

[SGKent]

[mikedjames]

I like the Goodyear 4Seasons Cargo tyres on my 185/65R15 alloys. Good wear and good grip. Only good thing to come from the EV revolution IMHO - tyres for fat and bloated cars or VW T2 Bays..
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1974 VW T2 : Devon Eurovette camper with 1641 DP T1 engine, Progressive carb, full flow oil cooler, EDIS crank timed ignition.
Engine 1: 40k miles (rocker shaft clip fell off), Engine 2: 30k miles (rebuild, dropped valve). Engine 3: a JK Preservation Parts "new" engine, aluminium case: 26k miles: new top end.
Gearbox rebuild 2021 by Bears.

1979 Westerly GK24 24 foot racer/cruiser yacht Forethought of Gosport.
1973 wooden Pacer sailing dinghy

[Wildthings]

Way back in 1998 I bought a set of Avon tires for my pickup truck, only drive the truck 3000-5000 miles a year. The tires almost didn't wear so at around 60,000 miles they still had maybe 80% of their original tread and the wear was very even. At around 15 years I started taking them into the tire dealer every year to let another set of eyes look them over and the results were always the same, "can't see anything wrong with them, but we can't recommend that you continue to run them". At maybe 20 years the wear accelerated and became uneven, so I sensed the end was getting near, and one days a felt a thumping going down the road, but still couldn't see or feel anything amiss. Pulled the offending tire off and put on the spar, leaving the offending tire leaning against a tree and took off for my day's adventure.

When I came home the tire leaning against the tree had split at an angle across the tread, with the apparent cause of failure being that the steel belts had rusted on a diagonal, likely due to a small puncture letting water get under the tread. At the point of failure they would have had ~100K miles on them and they still had about 50% tread and I would gladly have bought another set of Avon tires were they available, but sadly they were not. I ended just buying a set of one year old lightly used Walmart tires and figure I will likely just change them out every 6 years or so for another set of lightly used tires.

Avon made motorcycle tires and apparently used much better compounds than the typical truck tire manufacturer does. Sadly they are no longer in business.

[Abscate]

I really only have one car that does the freeway anymore so I run old tires on the rest of the fleet , inspecting each year for cracking , tread , and alignment.

Around town is 30-40 mph tops.

I did just reseal my first rim on a good radial before I noticed it was 18 years old, and has a sidewall bulge. Put that on the back until I can swap it with tires at cottage.
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[SGKent]

because a friend had a very expensive repair and almost lost his and his son's life driving a 15 year old perfectly good looking tire that had been garaged most of its life, at 75 - 80 mph when it just disintegrated, I decided not to roll the dice on the 17 year old tires. I am good with the decision but each person has to decide for themselves.
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[Bobs67vwagen]

Older steel radials seem to have a higher failure rate than the bias ply tires that preceded them. I had a car stored in the garage with steel radials and a tire exploded on the top side. You could see the steel sticking out of it. I also had several older radials where the belts seemed bent when you looked at the tread and the tread was raised in that area which could be felt as you drove the car. These modern tires do not last long. Contrast this with a story I read several years ago of a US bomber wreck from WWII found on New Guinea. The landing gear was found upside down with the tires facing the sky. The tire still held air 70 years later! Rubber compound differences now vs then?