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2013-14 Shelby GT500
What to Do With Old Tires?
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<blockquote data-quote="Bad Company" data-source="post: 15316149" data-attributes="member: 141815"><p>That is interesting to see.</p><p></p><p>All commercial truck tires are considered junk at 5 years of age. No tire retreader will give you a case trade in if the date is 5 years old or older. But depending on where they've been in that 5 years or whether they're virgin casings and have been retreaded already they can have anywhere from 90,000 miles to 500,000 miles on them at that age. In the line of work I did I went through tires at a very high rate due to the constant stopping/starting and turning. Steer axle tires would only last me 90,000, drives and trailer tires roughly 125,000. I always bought new virgin tires and traded casings back in, due to the nature of my driving style and the weight I loaded...........or lets say overloaded. LOL I worked tires extremely hard by doing this and I didn't want to deal with casing failures in the future with retreading them and installing them back on my own truck</p><p></p><p>I'm surprised that the tire industry is giving car tires a much longer shelf life given all the crap Firestone and Ford went through with tread separation a number of years ago. Those failures are what are known as zipper blow outs in commercial truck tires and are the most common failure with a truck tire. Again they are caused by excessive loads on the tire or low air pressures for the load being carried by the tire. </p><p></p><p>Most any tire shop will take old tires for a fee. Most local landfills also have a tire disposal program, but again they will charge you to drop them off.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bad Company, post: 15316149, member: 141815"] That is interesting to see. All commercial truck tires are considered junk at 5 years of age. No tire retreader will give you a case trade in if the date is 5 years old or older. But depending on where they've been in that 5 years or whether they're virgin casings and have been retreaded already they can have anywhere from 90,000 miles to 500,000 miles on them at that age. In the line of work I did I went through tires at a very high rate due to the constant stopping/starting and turning. Steer axle tires would only last me 90,000, drives and trailer tires roughly 125,000. I always bought new virgin tires and traded casings back in, due to the nature of my driving style and the weight I loaded...........or lets say overloaded. LOL I worked tires extremely hard by doing this and I didn't want to deal with casing failures in the future with retreading them and installing them back on my own truck I'm surprised that the tire industry is giving car tires a much longer shelf life given all the crap Firestone and Ford went through with tread separation a number of years ago. Those failures are what are known as zipper blow outs in commercial truck tires and are the most common failure with a truck tire. Again they are caused by excessive loads on the tire or low air pressures for the load being carried by the tire. Most any tire shop will take old tires for a fee. Most local landfills also have a tire disposal program, but again they will charge you to drop them off. [/QUOTE]
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