<VV> Old tires

[henry kaczmarek]

When I was living in VA Beach, in 91 I bought a 79 Chev Impala 4Dr.  I had 
the car about 6 months, and had to drive up to Buffalo to pick up my Mom and 
Aunt who were coming for a visit.
I left the Norfolk City Jail in my Sheriff's uniform, and headed out about 
9am.  Stopped at the 1st Rest Stop on I-64 and there was an Arlington County 
Deputy there trying to get an inmate into the rest room.  I cleared out the 
space and stood guard while he and his inmate got their business concluded. 
As a favor to me, he let me follow him all the way up 64 and 95 to Arlington 
County, at speeds over 100 MPH.  I got off the Beltway and onto US 15, going 
Past Camp David and into PA headed towards Gettysburg.  I was going 55 in a 
55 zone and the RR tire blew.   I had a good spare.  When I got to Buffalo, 
it turned out that the tire that blew was one of the original 1979 tires 
that was on the car when purchased!! (Bought it from a 75 year old man who 
never drove it much).   I can only imagine had it blown on the Interstate 
@105 MPH!!!!

NEVER TRUST OLD TIRES.  If you're buying a used car, check the date codes on 
the tires.

Hank

-----Original Message----- 
From: Grant Young
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2012 1:25 PM
To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
Subject: Re:  Old tires

Just read in the AAA travel magazine that the safe life on tires, regardless 
of mileage, is about 6 years. Seems the loss of ozone has not lessened its 
ability to deteriorate rubber. Article says that the effects can not always 
been seen. My daughter has some personal experience with some 10-12 year old 
SUV tires. Two of them came apart on two different occassions, so she 
replaced them (not Firestones and with more than half the tread life) before 
the other two failed. I guess that also means we should be wary of using our 
regular spare tires which are usually stored for many years?
Grant


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