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Originally Posted by DanEC
This is an interesting subject. I have a 427 Corvette with 18 year old tires, 67 GTX with 12 year old tires and a Ford Lightning with 11 year old OEM tires. All look brand new, have very few miles and except for the Lightning, have never spent any appreciable time outside other than for drives. I've heard of the 10 year old standard also and most stories of old tire failures say there was usually no outward signs of age before they failed. A fair number of old tire failures on classics actually happen while they are parked in the garage. So, I don't know - I probably should be getting some new tires on the Corvette as they do worry me.  |
A few months ago while in my shop piddling around,I heard a "boom" from the area where my 65 fastback is parked......ran over there and looked under the hood and everywhere,couldn't find anything,then looked in the trunk and the spare tire blew out sitting in the trunk.....it was an old tire,how old,not sure,guess about 10 to 15 years old.......same thing happened on the spare for my trailer about a year ago......so far, knock on wood,never had a blow out while on the road.......
David