Recent content by Mr Cornbread

Thank you sir, you are correct, it is one of many variables. [emoji1303] I just personally don't worry myself over the age (date code) of a tire as much as I look at the general shape of the tire because of the "nearly new" tires that I have had to blow out. Any tire can blow at any time so I...

We should all, always drive ready for anything to happen at any time, such as a tire blowing or anything else under the sun that can happen. I've never had any of these tires blow out (which could very possibly happen I know) and I've run them for years and run them cross country on two of my...

I have been around tire business for most of my life, I ran a tire shop for a while. I have my own tire machine and balancer and tools in my garage. If they have been sitting flat for very long, they will almost always have the dry cracking in the one area alone and I don't run those. If they...

I may have the wrong idea about tires, but I have always went by the dry rot on them. I've been running these tires for many years on several of my trucks, even my 97 Chevy crew cab Cummins dually pulling heavy trailers and everything. The only problem I have ever had out them is the front tires...