| Re: [GMCnet] Airbag question [message #245947] |
Mon, 31 March 2014 20:41 |
rallymaster
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Registered: February 2004
Location: North Plains, ORYGUN
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Ken, if you put enough miles on your coach to wear out the tread in about
5 years, you probably won't have an aging problem. IIRC, they age out
because the tires are not used often enough, and the oils in the rubber
are not circulated, causing the tire to dry out and separate.
Over The Road trucks don't have that problem because they aren't parked
for months at a time, and they can even re-groove or recap the casings.
RonC
On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 19:33:41 -0500 Ken Henderson <hend4800@bellsouth.net>
writes:
> Heck, I don't mind being called paranoid! With manufacturers
> claiming only
> 7 years life; and the number of tires I've heard of bursting while
> mounted
> as spares, or leaning against garage walls; and the reports of
> pretty
> consistent $2000+ fiberglass repairs from blowouts, why not? I may
> not
> make the 5 years + 1 second goal, but you can bet won't reach 6
> years on a
> set of tires on the GMC -- especially since there's a pretty good
> chance
> I'll have run them slick by then.
>
> Ken H.
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 4:46 PM, A. wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > USAussie wrote on Sun, 30 March 2014 23:28
> > > Disclaimer: if I did say I was afraid to run tires that were 5
> years and
> > 1 second old it was a brain fart! ;)
> > CRS must have been at play. I know I was poking at someone, but
> if not
> > you, then who?
> >
> > There must be someone out there who's cage rattled when I said
> that five
> > years is a borderline paranoid cutoff.
> > --
> >
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Ron & Linda Clark
1978 GMC Eleganza II
North Plains, ORYGUN
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