[Tigers] Tiger's Tires

[Jay Laifman]

I do remember that, very explicitly.  Scared me quite a bit.  I remember
knowing the guy through the email list then, though I don't remember his
name now.  Quite sad.  I did not know there was a 60 Minutes episode.

On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 9:24 PM Chris Thompson via Tigers <
tigers at autox.team.net> wrote:

> Fender damage? I'm sure the old guys among us will remember the case of a
> Tiger owner returning from a show when his tire blew out. The wreck was
> disastrous. His passenger spent the rest of her life in a nursing home, I
> believe.  Lawsuits ensued. 60 Minutes got involved. End result of tens of
> millions of dollars of research and litigation resulted in a ruling that
> said any tire over 5 years old is the owners risk. And that risk can be
> great.
>
> Chris
>
> B382000331
> On 3/31/2019 7:11 PM, Rob Hogan via Tigers wrote:
>
> It was a dumb question when I knew the answer was never to take the chance
> on tires that old.  It does cause me pain to see tires with only 200 miles
> of wear go to the recycler especially when their size replacements are no
> longer available.  But that beats doing fender damage from a blowout.
>
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> On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 6:16 PM steve wick <srwick at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> My cars don't get many miles a year as well, but some of those miles end
>> up being at freeway speeds. I figure I'd rather spend $500 on tires than
>> risk a $50,000 car or my body. I think the recommendation is change them
>> every 7 years, and that's what I do.
>>
>> Steve
>>
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>> I'm one of those drivers that doesn't put more than a few hundred miles
>> on my MR2 Spyder or will put on the Tiger each year.  I wonder if people
>> with several infrequent use cars change all of their cars' tires every 10
>> years or less.  Realizing the danger of running old tires particularly at
>> highway speed, are 36 year old BFG TA tires even useable at speeds under 45
>> MPH?  I should have used the 235/50xR13's more before the Tiger's long
>> layup.
>>
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