Super lucky

[Zeus785]

So fathers day weekend i took the Monte to a local car show. On the way home i felt a vibration on my left front. I stopped, and seen a small separation on the side of the tire. I limped home the last 4 miles, nice and slow, and put it in the shed. This weekend i got it out so i could get 2 new tires put on. This is the tire that had the separation, as you can see it was a ton worse than i thought. If i would have seen this, i would have stopped immediately after discovering the separation. BTW the tire was still holing 35# when i pulled it off the car.

 

[fleming442]

Wow!

 

[pontiacgp]

that tire has alot of age cracks i that tire so it shouldn't be a complete surprise that chunks of rubber came off. What year was that tire produced?

 

[pagrunt]

😱
That is some scary . You my friend are lucky, it looks like it was ready to blow out.

 

[Zeus785]

So I learned a ton about date codes. It appears the 2 tires I just replaced were made in Nov and Dec of 98. So 20 yrs old. When I put them on months ago, I swear I didn't see one crack at all in them.

 

[pontiacgp]

Tires 6 years and older are not supposed to be mounted

https://www.aa1car.com/library/tire_expire.htm

 

[Zeus785]

Well so i bought these already mounted on the rims. The gentleman i bought them from said he had them for about 6 or 7 yrs. Not sure how he bought them.

I never thought to check deeper than looks, so advice guys, inspect your stuff regularly

 

[pontiacgp]

Well so i bought these already mounted on the rims. The gentleman i bought them from said he had them for about 6 or 7 yrs. Not sure how he bought them.

I never thought to check deeper than looks, so advice guys, inspect your stuff regularly

I do, every time I have a shower...🙂

 

[UNGN]

We had a partial separation at Big Bend in 2012. After the chunk came off we went another 110 miles and won the 140 mph class.

Tires were 3.5 years old. We buy new tires every three years, now.

 

[pontiacgp]

I lost some rubber when a lower ball joint broke at 55 mph and stuffed the tire up into the wheel well..with help of the race crew they came with a new ball joint and equipment to install it, put that tire on the rear and drove it 40 miles to the race shop.


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