On 09/06/2016 2:12 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote:
I expect the UVs have a lot to do with it, being stored inside over winter
surely has helped your car.
My motorcycle has the same tires that were on it when I got it in 2004. I was
riding on them until about 3 years ago when I kinda lost interest. I inspected
them this year and can see significant weather checking, considering how
important tires are for a motorcycle I don't dare ride these outside of the
neighborhood and will advise prospective purchasers that it needs new tires.
-Curt
From: Randy Bennell via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
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Cc: Randy Bennell <rbenn...@bennell.ca>
Sent: Thursday, June 9, 2016 3:03 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Leak at rim / tire joint
On 08/06/2016 9:38 PM, G Mann via Mercedes wrote:
IF the tire is 6 yrs old.. I would not drive with it.. it's to close to the
age hard limit of 7 years.. and seems to be showing evidence of pending
failure by decomposition. At "about" 7 years the rubber compounds
decompose and start turning to "dust". Not safe...
Wonder if the heat down south makes a big difference to tires.
The tires on my 300D are the same ones that were on it when I got it 11
years ago and I have no idea how old they were then.
They still look to be fine. The spare is even older and I do have some
doubts on it. It has sort of a shiny look to it and I would guess it is
very hardened.
RB
I am with you on motorcycle tires. One wants them sticky rather than
slippery.
I should do something with the MB too but I seldom drive it far from
home and not much at highway speeds so I am getting away with it so far
I scared myself in traffic either last summer or the one before. I came
up behind someone who stopped short and I had to hammer on the brakes.
Locked all 4 wheels and made them screech a bit but stopped fine so the
tires still have grip in the summer on dry pavement at least. I wonder
if that is what killed my master cylinder as I had to replace it not too
too long after that incident.
I need to do a bit of work on the car so I will have a closer look
when I have them off. The spare does worry me some as I would really be
careful if I had to put it on. The tires on the car are all Michelin and
I cannot say that I have had the best of luck with that brand but this
set seems to be good. Of course, I am not trying to drive them in the
winter and that was my main complaint with the Michelin's that I had on
another car - no traction in the cold and snow.
I had a set of Uniroyal car tires on my 1968 Chevy C10 for about 20
years. They were blems or such when I got them as they were cheap and
half of the word had been ground off of them so they werre "Uni" tires.
I hauled all sorts of heavy loads with them even though they were not
truck tires. I used to haul a yard of top soil or crushed rock etc. I
also hauled home 24 sidewalk slabs at one time with them with no
issues.By the time that I finally chnaged them out, the cracks in the
tread were so wide that I could see the steel belts nearly all of the
way around the wheel. They never went flat on me but I got to where I
was afraid to go very far or very fast with them. The truck was a 3rd
vehicle kept to haul or to provide wheels when one of the better
vehicles was being worked on. I kept plates on it most of the time but
it was rarely driven more than about a thousand miles per year.
RB
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