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I ran out of storage space in cali, and a friend who bought a house in arizona is letting me keep a truck and a car there.
Are tires complete garbage compared to the quality they used to be? The car, stored outside, in a carport with a tarp over it had two tires completely explode. Not just go flat ,literally disassemble themselves. These were not particularly old tires, they were being used daily six months ago. They were on the ground, holding the car up.
The truck is in the garage, on rollers that enable sideways movement, and i just noticed one of them blew too! Admittedly these ARE old tires but they held the truck up in the driveway in cali for probably ten years without going flat.
Is this strictly due to heat? I would think they would get a lot hotter on 150° pavement during use, than just sitting in a warm garage. Ther have been a long run of 110°+ days(weeks?) here.
I also,had a front skinny blow up on me in my garage in cali that wasn't even on the ground!
Are they just making garbage tires now?
 
Are tires complete garbage compared to the quality they used to be?

Yes. There's less stuff that has gotten expensive in tires, less stuff like sulfur and other good things the EPA says is bad for the environment. I would trust tires from the 80's, maybe early to mid 90's. Now they're all crap.
 
Sorry for lack of response till now, we had a 11hr power outage.
The two on the car were 16" goodyear eagles with plenty of tread left and no sidewall cracking in evidence, the truck tires are old pepboys brand. Not sure i would buy either again.
 
You have two things working against you; UV and dry heat. Tires have a shelf life and have to factor useful life beyond only wear. Generally, tires that are 10 years old are a risk to be using even if the tread looks good. A sitting tire on a car is worse than one being driven as it maintains an uneven stress on it around the wheel. I had some pretty old tires on my car that looked great yet as I only drive my old car 400 miles a year and when stored it I put it up on stands so tires were off the concrete; but after reading about deterioration I got new ones thinking there's enough to worry about keeping my car pristine without a blown tire.
 
Are tires complete garbage compared to the quality they used to be?
Much like oil, I would expect just the opposite.

Is this strictly due to heat? I would think they would get a lot hotter on 150° pavement during use, than just sitting in a warm garage. Ther have been a long run of 110°+ days(weeks?) here.
I have seen tires explode during a burnout contest, but I gotta believe they where MUCH hotter than that. A rule of thumb is that tire pressure increases 1 PSI per 10 degres of temperature. Those numbers just don't compute to an explosion. I have pumped up a tire to 100 psi to find a leak and it held. There has to have been other factors in play.
 
Much like oil, I would expect just the opposite.


I have seen tires explode during a burnout contest, but I gotta believe they where MUCH hotter than that. A rule of thumb is that tire pressure increases 1 PSI per 10 degres of temperature. Those numbers just don't compute to an explosion. I have pumped up a tire to 100 psi to find a leak and it held. There has to have been other factors in play.
Thats why i'm asking, it doesn't make sense to me. As i said in my first post, i would think the would get much hotter in use on hot asphalt.
Yet a truck tire that sat outside in cali for ten years, blows to pieces in a garage in az in a month? Wth?
I have not yet checked the manufacture date on the eagles but i will.
 
Yes tires are total **** nowdays. I had to replace the factory good years on my pickup after 3 years because they leaked through the sidewalls. The bfg I had on my van cracked to **** about 2-3 years old. The bfg on my coronet already cracking. Toys on the porch cracked the worst if all and it's garaged. Michelins I've owned are bad too.

I have to say I've bought my last set of bfg t/a,

. I've got 2 sets of bfg t/a that i bought in the 90s still going strong with no cracks. Daytona f60's from 1970 with only a couple minor cracks. Bridgestone on my jeep from 1982 with only a few minor cracks and it is in an open carport in the desert.
 
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