Re: Tire Question

Zeke wrote:
"Tricky" <Tricky@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:i1zti.16351$4A1.165@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Zeke
I am from Australia and 80000 mls for steers sounds real good but how the hell do you get 400,000mls out of a set of drive tyres.(yes that's how we spell tires).I don't know what weights or road conditions you blokes use but 400,000mls sound a lot of miles.That equates to 640000klms for a set of drives.If I get 200000klms I recon that's not bad.Any clues?.Yes I do pressure checks every week and rotation every 10000klms.I run at 64.5 tonnes all up weight.(that's metric and I don't know what that would equate to U.S. tons).300000mls a year means you wont be doing any thing else but driving ,that's 852mls a day for 352 days a year.Not to bad.


We run the US Mail. The total gross weight of the truck is normally 18 to 23 tonnes. We still run tandem axles because we have axle weights go over 20000 lbs. Not much weight on the tyres.
We do slip seat driving. The trucks run about 14 hours a day, 6 days a week. My typical days are 560 miles or 610 miles.

17 year old tyres on a jeep!! Wow man you fellers must have some bloody good rubber.


The tyres were on the jeep when I bought it. Lots of tread left due to limited use and it is parked inside or in the shade most of the time. The tyre man keeps warning me about those old tyres, but I'm not worried about it yet. When I see some indication of detioration I'll replace them.



I bought a car a while back with tires that had good tread but there was no way of knowing how old they were... and being that the car was a Studebaker Lark that had sat up for a few years they could have been quite old. Had the car moved to a shop and we got it running, took care of some other problems and I started on the 100 mile drive home.

Car ran great, but about 40 miles from home one of the tires blew out. 30 miles later another did.

The next Studebaker I bought (a truck this time) went to the same shop, but I didn't even pull it out of the driveway until it had new tires.

But if that Jeep isn't driven at highway speeds and you don't go bouncing over rocks like the guys (and gal)on Extreme 4x4 I think your doing the right thing... if it ain't broke don't fix it!

Jeff DeWitt
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