quality of used tires down?

[youngbuckwithapickuptruck]

ive always bought used tires. i check the date, ask them to balance them, this has mostly always been fine. over the past five years ive seem to have been getting more bad luck with unbalanced and dry rotting tires, damn it. im wondering if this may be due to supply of good used tires in this size dwindling up or something.

does anyone have any insight?

 

[Curious Hound]

Really depends on the quality of the tires when they were new. I’m pretty picky about tires. 99%of the time I buy new and get a good name brand and good model fir my purposes.

I understand being frugal and not wanting to waste money. But, think about it. The tires are the most critical key component keeping your vehicle safely on the road. It’s a safety item. Do you love your family and want to protect them?

Of course, I also wear safety glasses and a face shield when cutting and grinding, a welding helmet, gloves and long sleeve cotton shirt and pants when welding. Safety shoes when working in the shop…

 

[SenorNoob]

IMO, rubber lifetime has been reduced to the minimum (5 years) by all the tricks that make new tires work so well. A secondary problem is that with income vs costs the way they are, people are driving on tires until they pop. Which causes a significant reduction in the availability of used tires...