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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
Just happened onto this article while trolling down the rabbithole that is Twitter:
http://www.thedrive.com/opinion/5189...h?iid=sr-link1
It's an article that speaks to Paul Walker's GTIII crash a few years back and more critically, the tires on the car. It makes a FANTASTIC point that I hadn't considered.
Tires work not just because of their tread pattern (that's for weather, really), but because of the chemical compounds in them. For your daily driver, it's moot as you wear out the tread before the compounds break down. For a collector's car, OTOH, those chemical compounds will break down before the tread does. So tires that look sound, probably aren't.
My Camaro's sitting on 10 year old tires that look as new as the day they were purchased because I put maybe 500 miles/year on that car. I'm pretty sure this article has convinced me to re-shoe it this spring. |
When I got my Mustang my FIL had some nice Pirellis on the car that had less than 5k miles on them but were 10 years old. Tread looked complete brand new. I went to discount tire to have them rotated and the guys told me they won't work on tires over 10 years old for that very reason. Tread may look fine but it's not worth risking the makeup of the tire at that age.
They recommended changing tires after 6 years, even if the tread pattern still looks fine, especially here in the desert with the heat.
I know plenty of other guys who are like you and if the tread looks fine, those tires will be on the car 10+ years for those seldom driven cars. So I am not sure the real answer.