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Perished tyres - advice req. Less than 3 year old

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,505 ✭✭✭✭lawred2


    PaulKK wrote: »
    This was posted a couple of pages back. I also included links from the AA and Continental.

    Cool


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,579 ✭✭✭khaldrogo


    JayZeus wrote:
    And if you understood it yourself, you wouldn’t be writing about tyres ‘being dried out’. It’s overly simplistic and typically misleading commentary from someone who thinks they have the inside track.


    Rubber dries out. It's not a secret ffs!!!


  • Posts: 24,714 [Deleted User]


    magentis wrote: »
    Try putting the power down when the car is upside down in the ditch.

    Why? It’s easier control oversteer than stop a car under steering into a ditch. The whole idea of better tyres on the back is to stop oversteer, I’d rather have some oversteer than power understeer out sliding understeer in a corner.

    Rwd car obviously best rubber goes on the back.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭Audioslaven


    lawred2 wrote: »
    3 years on one set of tyres. Lucky you.

    100% - In fairness the OP has got three years out of the tyres with 65K KM. They have done ok on these tyres and should just replace them at their cost rather than go complaining about them to get a free/reduced rate on new tyres.
    OP will look a right tight fecker if he does


  • Registered Users Posts: 404 ✭✭ml100


    khaldrogo wrote: »

    A car that is sat up for long periods of time where the tyres are in direct sunlight being dried out while parked will have these issues. If you were in the tyre trade for any length of time you would know this.

    Who said the car was sat up for long periods of time?, the car is driven 3-4 days a week, thankfully I'm not in the trade, but I have been driving for 25 years and I've never experienced this with any tyres before other than when they get to 5 or 6 years old.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 937 ✭✭✭kerten


    This new tyres should go to rear axle advice is killing me every time as it sounds like oversteering in a bend is the only case your tyres matters and this is the only scenario you should ensure your tyres of capable of preventing.

    Question: how many times did you oversteer your fwd car accidentally ?

    What about emergency braking, understeer on a bend in a fwd car(don't forget that axle is under extra pressure with steering, front end weight, and trying to put the power down), avoiding a pedestrian or animal jumping in front of you ?

    Question: how many times did you experience scenarios above while driving ?

    So, oversteering in a bend is a risk for sure but probability of it is not high enough to ignore more probable scenarios by following a single recipe of putting new tyres on rear axle.

    In a fwd car, would you really prefer to have a front tyre with 3 mm tyre depth on a wet road and brand new rear tyres in those scenarios ?

    If a tyre is worn and not performing safely. just change it either based on rules and its current performance(not the tread depth only). This is the only single recipe that doesn't put people at risk when we are talking about tyre grip.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,300 ✭✭✭alan partridge aha


    I have a 16 year old tyre on back of 02 vw bora which passes nct ever year. It was the spare in boot for 12 years and never used. I stuck it on 4 years ago. Think it's a goodyear eagle and not perished.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,624 ✭✭✭✭meeeeh


    I have a 16 year old tyre on back of 02 vw bora which passes nct ever year. It was the spare in boot for 12 years and never used. I stuck it on 4 years ago. Think it's a goodyear eagle and not perished.

    It's quite possible rubber is so hard it will never perish but you also have no grip.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,627 ✭✭✭tedpan


    I change the tyres at 35k kms(annually), have no idea how you got 65k kms? They looked bald to me??


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  • Registered Users Posts: 19 Postman Pat


    Away there for a few days. Looking at the comments now and it looks like I stoked up a right ol debate with this thread. Btw - for any poster that thinks I'm a tight feicer that's not the case. I was ready to purchase two new tyres for my car upon entering the tyre garage after getting the puncture. The garage guy told me first to go back to Dunlop as he reckoned regardless of the mileage the excessive cracks all the way round the tyre shouldn't have happened. I had an inclining there might be other views on the matter so said I would check here to see what the general consensus was - given my lack of tyre knowledge.

    After some digging about what Michelin recommend re tyre rotation - seems the Michelin guideline is to rotate all your tyres every 10k km - so they all wear at the same time and then all need replacing at the same time I assume. They seem to recommend incorporating a full size spare tyre (if you have one) into the rotation as well. They recommend if just replacing two tyres that one put the newer tyres on the back. See page 14 of the owners manual below.

    https://www.michelinman.com/img/store/michelin_us/exit/pdf/Owners_Manual_Post_Promise_Plan.pdf
    https://www.michelinman.com/US/en/safe-driving/tire-safety/tire-rotation.html
    https://www.mcmanustyres.ie/new-tyres.php


  • Registered Users Posts: 404 ✭✭ml100


    Hi, anyone know if these will fail an nct?,

    Tyres are 4 years old with 12k km on them, dunlop on a 162 yaris.

    There is about 6mm of thread left on them, side walls are perfect, but they have cracks in the grips, anyone have similar and pass the nct test?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭jmreire


    JayZeus wrote: »
    Pub talk. There is absolutely zero truth to that old wives tale.

    Maybe nothing to do with the tyres, but definitely has to to do with 1, 2, 3 or more years and miles wear and tear on suspension and steering parts / alignment.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,357 ✭✭✭jimbis


    ml100 wrote: »
    Hi, anyone know if these will fail an nct?,

    Tyres are 4 years old with 12k km on them, dunlop on a 162 yaris.

    There is about 6mm of thread left on them, side walls are perfect, but they have cracks in the grips, anyone have similar and pass the nct test?
    They will pass.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,348 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    This thread is nearly as old as the tyres.


  • Registered Users Posts: 404 ✭✭ml100


    bazz26 wrote: »
    This thread is nearly as old as the tyres.

    Still a valid question!, that tyre has been like that for 18 months, I wouldn't be in a hurry to get that same brand again, I think it was the hot summer of 2018 when the cracks first appeared, all four are like that but one of the front tyres has side wall damage so I'll probably put two new ones one and chance the back two.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Start new thread please

    Old thread lock


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