On May 10, 3:38 am, box...@sasktel.net wrote:
According to ABC news 20/20 any tire older than 6 years old

Maybe so.
It is also my belief that any NEW tire could separate and kill you.
Didn't some Chinese-built
tires have a recall recently?
Actually, I stopped believing in national news about the time when NBC
did their show on the
Chevy pickup tanks that explode every time they get hit in the side.
(For you guys with short memories,
this is where NBC actually staged these explosions with a little help
from Estes toy rocket engines)
Let see now. I also remember when CBS's Dan Blather read the military
review on George Bush that
turned out to be a hilarious hoax. I'm not sure what ABC has pulled
and really don't care.

BTW, were there any tire advertisements during this show? Think about
it..........

Where does that six year number come from?  Somebody just pulled it out
of a hat, that's where.

I have seen tread separation on tires that were poorly stored, in much
less than six years.  I have also seen tires much older with no separation
issues.

What you want to see is a plot of the separation incident rate versus the
age of the tires so you can make an informed decision for yourself rather
than just taking a scalar number from a reporter.

In addition, if you are driving older tires, or even if you are driving
brand new tires, you should inspect your tires whenever you check the air
pressure, which should be pretty often.  Pay attention to how the car
drives.  Often with tire problems you will get a good bit of warning that
something is wrong, but too many drivers just ignore the signs and keep
driving.
--scott

The only tire I've ever had that self destructed spectacularly was
relatively new. Probably about 3 or 4 years old with about 30K miles on
it. It did so at 70 MPH on an SUV. It didn't kill me. In fact, it wasn't
that big a deal to pull over onto the shoulder.

Sure, an old tire may be more likely to blow out than a new one. But if
you don't panic, its no big deal. So I'm going to run them down to
minimum tread depth. As long as I keep them properly inflated and
rotated and check them for bumps, I don't care how old they get.

On May 10, 3:38 am, box...@sasktel.net wrote:

That show is long decoding tire manufacture date and woefully short on
information actually showing a correlation between age and dangerous
deterioration.  It's sensationalist reporting that I would expect to
see on the cover of a National Enquirer and not from ABC News.