Check your tire dates!!

[dustinm]

My trailer tires will start to do as Steve has shown after 5 years. Ive always known they were a maintenance item due to age partially due to outdoor storage with zero UV protection.

Now I do have darn near 30 year old BFG TAs on the front of my 68 that I better get replaced.... Its always out of the sun and are in moderate midwest summer temps (I also know the heat of the south is another tire enemy) so I hadnt worried too much about them.

[Big Block Bill]

I am a firm believer in notifying customers of the tire dates on all vehicle inspections we do, and make it a part of EVERY oil and filter service as well. We just had a motorhome in last month with 28 year old tires. When I told the owner she needed (6) tires, she asked if she could just make it to Florida as she was going to park it in a park and not drive it from then on. I told her I would not drive it to Florida Lane in town here. Her response was " But the tread looks like they have a lot of life left in them"
People. Bill

[1967 4K]

Awhile back I removed a set of BF Goodrich Radial TA’s from a set of 69 XT wheels because one started a bulge out place on the sidewall. They were old but perfect thread. The tread is what most people pay attention to not the condition of the sidewalls.