โSep-23-2021 01:12 PM
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โOct-16-2021 09:51 AM
Desert Captain wrote:
"The one thing that has yet to be mentioned is locale. Heat, in the form of ambient temperature, plays a HUGE role in how long tires last. Obviously tires operating around Phoenix experience a lot more heat history that tires operating around Minneapolis. So if you live and/or operate in the desert SW, you need to use a more rapid replacement schedule than someone living/operating in the northern midwest."
Actually I brought this up back on the second page of this discussion, just sayin...
"Admittedly Arizona is a tough environment on all tires but these had been meticulously maintained and always run at the correct psi for the loads they carried. Obviously opinions vary but IMHO if your tires are over 5 years old you are rolling the dice... place your bets."
Clearly we agree. I have spent long days driving in 112 - 115 degrees and cannot even imagine just how hot the road surface actually is. Conversely as winter appears ready to pounce early this year freezing temperatures, snow and ice are all too common throughout most of Arizona {the average elevation of Arizona is north of 4,000' and we have lots of 9,000'+ passes to negotiate}.
The truth is in the real world there is no arbitrary ten, seven or even five year rule per se. One must always take into consideration not only how but where your tires are being used and then decide, as in "Do ya feel lucky punk? Well ,do ya???" :S
Here is a shot of us in the "Dead Zone" 30 miles west of Phoenix on I-10:
This is the reason I go rid of my C Class 16 in LT tires do not belong on those rigs ........
:B
โOct-13-2021 08:32 PM
โOct-12-2021 10:24 AM
CapriRacer wrote:
The one thing that has yet to be mentioned is locale. Heat, in the form of ambient temperature, plays a HUGE role in how long tires last. Obviously tires operating around Phoenix experience a lot more heat history that tires operating around Minneapolis. So if you live and/or operate in the desert SW, you need to use a more rapid replacement schedule than someone living/operating in the northern midwest.
And why don't today's tires last longer?
1) Law of Physics (and Chemistry) don't change over time.
2) They didn't, but we have the Internet today and that changes how people perceive things.
3) Then there is this odd thing that our brains do: We think the Good-Old-Days(TM) were better - somehow. Actual statistics don't bear this out.
โOct-12-2021 09:27 AM
โOct-12-2021 04:14 AM
LandYacht35diesel wrote:
DOESNT the speed of what you cruise at AND PROPER air pressures determine much of this ?
โOct-12-2021 04:10 AM
LandYacht35diesel wrote:
DOESNT the speed of what you cruise at AND PROPER air pressures determine much of this ?
And OTHER THINGS to consider is ... that all this is just a tire company GAME to sell more tires. AND WHY ... donโt tires last way WAY longer than the yesterYEAR ones did ?
โOct-11-2021 03:22 PM
โSep-25-2021 11:50 AM
โSep-25-2021 11:05 AM
Desert Captain wrote:
One salient fact that I inadvertently omitted was that I consistently put 8 to 9,000 miles a year on our coach. That means at 5 years I have 40,000+ miles on those tires and it is clearly time to start shopping for replacements. As noted above folks that don't use their rigs much, that spend most of their time sitting only exacerbate the potential for catastrophic tire failure {such as I experienced} due to the the low use tires "drying out"{for lack of a better description}.
โSep-25-2021 08:48 AM
KendallP wrote:Desert Captain wrote:
"So your codes showed 5.5 years at the time of the incident? Or...? "
Yes, the three oldest were all 5.5 years old with 4/32" of tread and looked fine and all three were on the rear. I normally start shopping at five years but as noted, my bad, just lost track of how old they were getting. When I buy new tires I always have them put on the front and rotate the fronts to the rear. As noted in a subsequent post losing a rear is bad but a blowout on one of the fronts has a lot more potential for disaster.
:C
Roger that.
I didn't realize you had already been on a 5 year maximum plan. I thought you started that subsequent to your incident.
Seems like you're giving yourself a pretty good beating when most don't replace tires earlier than 6 or 7 years... and many go to 10... and some even longer.
If anything, a blowout at 5 1/2 years would make me question the tire quality much more than my change-out plan.
โSep-25-2021 05:35 AM
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