I am quite sure most on this List have read about tire safety but here is an
interesting article that perhaps explains in a little more details about tire
safety.
https://www.edmunds.com/car-care/how-old-and-dangerous-are-your-tires.html
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How Old - and Dangerous - Are Your Tires? -
Edmunds<https://www.edmunds.com/car-care/how-old-and-dangerous-are-your-tires.html>
www.edmunds.com
For years people have relied on a tire's tread depth to determine its
condition. But tire age is just as important.
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From: Healeys <healeys-bounces at autox.team.net> on behalf of Randall Hicks
<healey100m at me.com>
Sent: November 4, 2017 1:07 PM
To: editorgary at aol.com
Cc: healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Re Tires in Concours; Just to clarify
With all due respect to Gary, and he has done an enormous amount of research on
the subject of tires, the Austin-Healey Concours Registry Committee is
considering changing its Policies and Guidelines as Gary has stated, BUT with a
15 year cut off on tires, not 10 as he has stated.
We expect to finalize this change in the next couple days and I will post to
the List the new policy.
Randy Hicks
Chairman, Austin-Healey Concours Registry
One comment suggested misreading -- In the new standards, we accept both
bias-ply and radial tires for concours, without giving either one point
differences, without deduction as long as they are the correct original
narrow-width thread with tall sidewall size for the car -- 5.90x15 and 165x15.
We have a standard deduction for any other tire size, we deduct for a
non-matching spare, and we do not inspect cars with tires over 10 years old.
The reasoning is that safety is paramount -- old tires can delaminate without
warning, regardless of appearance, with life-threatening consequences -- and
beyond that we prefer to see concours cars with appearance as close to original
as possible with any part where the original brand is no longer available, and
we do believe that all new tires from standard sources in the original sizes
are safe and reliable for use in long-distance touring at highway speeds.
Gary Anderson
Los Altos, California
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