[Tigers] Tiger's Tires

[Chris Thompson]

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

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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 
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>     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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