03-09-2019, 02:20 PM | #1 |
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Yes this is not a late model but the lesson I learned applies. 5 year old tires need to be replaced before they do it for you as happened to me. They looked perfect, little to no tread wear, correct pressure, just 10 years old. It came apart at 75 in traffic on the interstate. Cold have been much worse, just glad it was only me that got messed up!
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03-09-2019, 05:17 PM | #2 |
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Wow. Is that a prewar Plymouth, or a Chevrolet
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03-09-2019, 05:57 PM | #3 |
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that wasnt a recap was it.
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03-09-2019, 06:04 PM | #4 |
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Is the condition of that fender a result of the tire failure?
My '55 project car came with a full set of very nice looking Michelin radials. Before it was running I noticed from the tire code they were over 20 yrs old (443 = 44th week of '93) so I kept it off the hiway and under 50 mph until new ones were put on. Last edited by dmsfrr; 03-11-2019 at 04:07 PM. |
03-09-2019, 06:24 PM | #5 |
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Yes the tire beat the total crap out of it. It is a 36 Chevy with a 351C FMX MII 8". Took out the fender, inner fender and the fender went up and hit the head light and busted the mount. Nope, don't do caps, brand new Firestone when put on the car.
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03-09-2019, 09:58 PM | #7 |
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Interesting timing. Friday I stopped to order tires for my Mom’s 9 1/2 year old Lincoln, 14,000 miles.
I’ve known the tire guy for years, and laid it out. He said some manufacturers will say a tire parked inside in a mild climate like Seattle will go 10 years. He said he’s also see them fail at 8 years. They may be fine around town, but a hot day at highway speeds and who knows. I know on the motorhomes, we never went more than 7 years, no matter what the wear. Needless to say, Mom’s new tires go on Tuesday. Sorry about the damage, but thanks for the post. |
03-10-2019, 02:56 AM | #8 |
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I think I have heard of Firestone’s having that problem a while back.
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03-10-2019, 09:50 AM | #9 |
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Lucky it didn't cause accident, Chinese rv tires are the worst. Goodyear finally started making them again. 6 years max on rv's and your lucky if you get that. Sometimes people ask me why don't you drive this or that anymore. Time gets away from me and I will not drive with old brake lines/hoses or tires any more.
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03-10-2019, 09:53 AM | #10 |
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firestone had same problem with their 727 tire I would never buy one of them
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03-10-2019, 11:18 AM | #11 |
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Thank you Blue Blood for helping me make an expensive decision. Last November I bought a nice old 64 F100. It has tires that look like new, but are in fact 12 years old. Because of this post, I will replace them. Maybe its not an expensive decision, it may be cheap in the long run. Thanks for helping.
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03-10-2019, 03:56 PM | #12 |
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A great reminder about the appearance of tires versus the actuality of hidden problems. Thanks for posting.
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03-11-2019, 09:21 AM | #13 |
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I've had 7 year old tires with less than a hundred miles on them blow just sitting in the garage. General radials, two out of four a week apart. changed all four.
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That would be the Firestone 500 around 1976. I was working in a shop back then and they came in all the time. Sometimes the tread came off in chunks, sometimes the steel belts were poking out the sidewalls. The 721 was the replacement tire. |
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03-11-2019, 03:46 PM | #15 |
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I had a 76 T-Bird with Firestone 500s. Got a recall from Firestone for free replacement if within a serial number range. All 5 were. I wasn't having any problems with mine so I waited until the replacement period was about out and got them replaced with 5 Firestone 721s.
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03-11-2019, 06:12 PM | #16 |
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I been drivin for 46 years. Seems to me, it aint about the age of the tire rather more about who the manufacturer is and sometimes it is the model of tire.
IMO, Coker tires aint worth a hoot for drivin on and they certainly don't last long before the tread is all gone. I've got cheepo Firestone 215-75R-15's on the back and Vanderbilt 205-75R-15's on the front of my '55 Sedan. They are good as gold and all are about 14 yrs old now. Put a lot of highway miles on those. My 2007 F-150 pickup truck only has 51,000 miles on it and still has the factory original Michelin tires. It looks to me like I can get another 20,000 miles on the tread. |
03-11-2019, 06:44 PM | #17 |
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Even though I've had some really crappy tires down thru the years (which I have used to drive long distances on highways), the only time I ever had a flat tire on the road was around 1997 or 98, I was just getting started on the highway on the way home from work in my '55 Sedan.
I opened the trunk and there was this ancient 670X15 spare, dry as a bone and it was flat also. Just as I had finished removing my flat tire, an '85 Crown Vic stopped on the shoulder in front of me. An old man got out and offered to let me use his portable compressor that operated off the battery. We aired up my spare and it looked more and more scary as you could see the dry cracks throughout the sidewalls. I put it on and thanked the Lord, that he sent that man out of the blue to assist me. I drove 29 miles the rest of the way home on the highway, trying to keep the speed under 55 MPH for fear that the old tire would fly apart. It held up all the way home, even though it had a un-even load on it, since the other three tires had an equivalent O.D. of 710X15's. So she ran down the road a little lopsided. Yes, the next morning, I threw my spare in the back of the pickup truck and dropped it off at a tire shop to get plugged. That night, I removed the old spare and put my plugged tire back on. I'm guessing that old spare had to be well over 35 years old. It wasn't a Coker. It was a name brand. But at that age, yeah, the rubber is too dry and scary. I was shakin' in my boots for 29 miles till I got home. |
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It was around 1997, I had an old Chevy wagon (1979) and I was coming down from a camping trip in upstate NY. I had a flat getting onto the Palisades Parkway, right before the George Washington Bridge. Grab the spare.... gulp... a Fearstone 500... no choice, slap it on. I got close to home when it started thumping and finally came apart. Luckily I had won a ton of change playing poker and used most of it making phone calls. It was Labor Day weekend and I finally got someone to bring me a tire.
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