Originally posted by Sugarphreak
Serious question.... has anybody ever actually had a blow out on a passenger car? Because I've actually never heard of that happening to anybody I know, ever.
And this is coming from somebody who used to buy tires from the junkyard for $20, then pay another 5$ for mounting with no balancing at all, and run them until they bubbled out between the cords
Really if I bought a car as a casual DD and it had 15 year old tires, so long as they were not cracked, I'd just run them without even worrying about it.All of this. The liability for tires is so high (relatively speaking) that they can't be crap. I have never blown a truck or car tire at highway speeds, in order to have an honest-to-god blowout versus the tire just going flat and shredding itself, you REALLY have to work at it.Originally posted by Sugarphreak
I find tires are usually designed with pretty high safety factors... I've driven home on corded tires a few times from Fort McLeod and Red Deer, haha