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Re: Old Tires

To: <Geegc@aol.com>, <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Old Tires
From: "datsunmike" <datsunmike@nyc.rr.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 16:26:53 -0400
There was an article regarding that in Grassroots this month. They
recommended dumping the tires after 5 years.

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: <Geegc@aol.com>
To: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 3:22 PM
Subject: Old Tires


> Old tires -- there was an article in today's WSJ about old tires, and it
stated that car manufacturers recommend that tires be changed every 6 years,
and certainly after 10 years, no matter what.
>
> I can second that, on my old black 2000 the tires were 11 years old and
harder than a rock.  I replaced them with new rubber and the car actually
stopped sliding on every turn, and rode better to boot.
>
> Gary C
> red red black.





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