how little tread depth before they won't mount it

[85_Ranger4x4]

They can fuss about dates on a road driven vehicle... go to a more rural area if someone gives you a hard time about it for something like roller duty. Out here in the sticks we use tires for more things than a car on pavement.

I honestly don't care how old tires are as long as they hold air on my offroad stuff. If a tire blows out on my shredder the worst thing that will happen is it will mow funny... and I sure as heck ain't gonna go put new tires on it.

 

[doorgunner]

On the other hand......I owned a set of Mickey Thompson Tires that lasted 10 years/ a set of Uniroyals that lasted 10 years/a set of Goodyear tires that lasted 12 on my 1st worktruck (back in the day when manufacture date didn't matter until Firestone produced mass amounts of junk tires back in the early '80s---the front tires would actually come off the rim on luxury cars when turning a sharp corner because the bead was so soft).

Ohhhhhh....my uncle's Model A tires lasted 30 years/50,000 miles on an equal amount of gravel roads and blacktop!

BUT.....I'm oldschool...I watch for sidewall dryrot.....and go from there.

 

[Mazda]

They can fuss about dates on a road driven vehicle... go to a more rural area if someone gives you a hard time about it for something like roller duty. Out here in the sticks we use tires for more things than a car on pavement.

I honestly don't care how old tires are as long as they hold air on my offroad stuff. If a tire blows out on my shredder the worst thing that will happen is it will mow funny... and I sure as heck ain't gonna go put new tires on it.

Don't want to get in a argument with you 85_Ranger4x4.

But the worst thing that can happen if I tire blows out is that you flip your truck and kill yourself or worst someone else.

Then lawyers and insurance companies get involved and even your local, state, highway patrol and they want to know everything about everything.

I have seen CHP tear a whole truck apart piece by piece to see what caused the accident. End result: used the wrong bolts to secure some aftermarket seats. Driver lost control killed 3 people.

I'm sure they could find out old tires were mounted and caused truck to roll.

But as always I do see peoples point when they want to save some money.

 

[racsan]

ive found that the age of a tire really comes into play as far as wet braking traction is concerned..i have a set of wal-mart uniroyals on my factory alloy rims, use those as "summer" tires. plenty of street-legal tread, but they are 7 years old, cant get a grip on wet pavement at all, i actually put my jeep steel rims back on this summer with my "winter" dakota futuras (that are only 2 years old) after a scare involving a wet raod and normal braking to make a turn...my uniroyals are now on my box trailer...