[miker98038]

Only once have I had a catastrophe tire failure, and that was on a motor home. Probably age or impact related, but it was cool and properly inflated when it lost the whole tread. What I've seen more often is older tires getting hard and losing traction. I've had at least 3 sets on sports cars do that at low mileage. In Seattle where we don't have a lot of hot weather, on cars that were always garaged. The Coker whitewall radials on my bird where at least 15 years old when I replaced them, and they looked fine but were getting hard. So that's what I watch for.