Anyone have their sidewalls crack like this? I think these are home ground, would that cause this on all 4 tires ? They are going to be replaced before driving, just wondering as the rest of the tire looks good.
^^^ yes how old are they? A long crack like that in the sidewall area isn't good. Replace the tire. If you can't see cords when you spread the crack and peer into it, it may be okay only if the crack is superficial.
A friend of mine has all four tires on his car that looks the same way,,before anyone ask they are Diamond Backs. HRP
Had the same problem with a pair of early diamond backs. Crack is only in the white rubber, not the tire itself. Check with diamond back. They told me that they could repair them. Apparently , they have changed their manufacturing process to eliminate this problem. Found them great to deal with
The tires are Daytons, I think about 8 years old . The crack is just in the whitewall ,cant see any cords in the crack. The rest of the tire and tread look new. Ive seen plenty of dryrot around other tires, just never seen 4 tires crack the same way. Im still replaceing them because of the age. It kinda ****s as the cokers that were on it before were never driven on, still have all the nubs, but are dryrotted all around all 4 tires from sitting .
Many tires stores won't mount tires over so many years old. The wife's MINI Cooper manual says replace tires every 6 years. Reads brake fluid every 2 years also - never seen that in a new car manual beore. Chevy trucks just came out with a 10 year or 150,000 mile brake fluid change maintenance.
I once had a new old stock set of Goodyear Double Eagles on the Plymouth, purchased from a friend who had put them into storage in about 1960. I bought them in the 1970s sometime.....still wrapped in that brown paper. Ran them on the car for several years without problems, but then the white sidewalls began checking. So I finally replaced them with Firestone repro tires from Coker. But my sidewalls never did crack like the one pictured. Aside from the checking, the tires still looked like new. Ah well........
where is this elusive Date Code...I've never been able to find one on a tire...but then, I am from Okiehoma...can someone show a pic?
I ground down a pair of tires for whitewalls. They had a similar look like yours but it wasn't a crack from the tire, it was where the whitewall band was bonded together. Kinda like a retread tire, you're going to have a seam where the opposite ends of the tread comes together.
New tyres sound like the order of the day. A sidewall blowing out at any speed is just not a raisk worth taking. Just my $0.02
Yuppers that is what it is. That especially happens on white letter tires that are ground down to make wide whites but that is the seam where the white rubber ****ed up when they made the tire.
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