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All tires have a code on them that tells you when they were made. Be careful that you don’t buy ever a tire that has been sitting in the store for 5 or 6 years. Old,tires can be dangerous because rubber dries out. A dried out, old tire could cause a fatal accident at highway speeds!!
I worked for Carmax and they could sure use some lessons about tires from Scotty. They had an F250 with dry rotted sidewalls, and instead of replacing the tires, they flipped the tires on the rim to hide it from the customer. Not to mention the Chinese brands they used whenever tires were actually replaced. Good information in this video.
Gotta love them chinese tires, i love when im driving and i skid....... specially when it rains, shits have no grip even if like new..... (after a year or two they are garbage)
That's why I always prefer buying cars from the owner itself. You can examine the previous owner. What I usually do is, to ask the owner to drive out of the city limits, because ''I don't know that place'' so you can already see the way, this person drives. If I replace tyres, I stay away from the Chinese one too, but I usually buy Nexen tyres. Korean brand, has a very good price usually 3rd or 4th cheapest, but the rating is 2.3 while the best tyre is usually being like 1.7 to 1.4, when 1.0 is the best. That's fair enough to me and reason enough to only pay 30-50% than for a Michelin or Continental. Only Exception is the small sizes, as the price different is very low then.
Years ago, Carmax used to be a decent place to buy a good car for a few thousand dollars. I'm sure you can still get deals, if you know what your looking for, but I've got MUCH better deals straight from the dealer.
Hey Scotty! Just wanted you to know that I get a little extra burst of energy when I'm going out to repair my car after I've watched some of your videos. I feel like I'm a professional mechanic by then because I know exactly what to do. So cheers mate, for what you're doing for us regular mortals!
You say "finally" as if a penny never had an actual purpose, but it did... long ago it was worth more than a quarter is today. Oh, how the mighty dollar has fallen!
You should have pointed out to also look at the tread wear indicators built into every tire. They are labeled on the sidewall by a triangle (like at 3:10 in your video). If the tread is even with the wear bar the tires are worn out. When shopping, you can also look at the treadwear rating on new tires as a number on the sidewall. Higher numbers are better, but a harder compound, so they typically last longer at the expense of traction - especially in colder temps.
....... Will a penny still work if the dollar becomes worthless? What happens when we all have to take the "mark of the beast" in order to buy and sell, as predicted in the book of Revelation in the Bible? Should we use our right hand, or our forehead for this measurement?
It's not as simple as more money = longer life. Some of the most expensive tires out there have between 40 and 200 treadwear rating. They will be gone in about 5k to 10k miles. The Hoosier A6 the autocrossers use only last about 10 runs at the most (~45 sec per run) and they cost upwards of $1,200 for a set. Long lasting tires are not supposed to be expensive, they are supposed to be budget oriented (for cost to buy, tread life, and gas mileage). For instance, the Kumho Solus KR21 is a 640 UTQG with a 85k mile treadwear warranty (this means they will pro-rate your next set of tires if they do not achieve 85k miles before 2/32 tread remaining). The BFG g-Force Sport A/S is a 460 UTQG with a 50k mile treadwear warranty. For my car (Miata 185/60/R14) the Kumhos are $55 and the BFGs are $80 per tire. The BFG is a stickier tire, but it costs more and won't last as many miles. You will also have worse MPG with the BFG, because a stickier tire has more rolling resistance.
Peter Kapica The A6 is not a drag race tire, it is an autocross tire. They are technically road legal, but it would be stupid to run them since it's a slick with two grooves cut in it. They carry a UTQG of 40. Since you missed the point, I will explain again - the example was intended to illustrate that the softer compounds and stiffer construction tires are more expensive, but do not last as long. For instance, while an A6 is an extreme example, a Michelin Pilot Sport Cup is not and is very commonly found on performance cars from the factory. This tire carries a UTQG of 80, one tenth of the treadwear rating a Prius tire has. These tires last less than 10k miles with normal driving only, and merely a couple of track days if pushed hard. For a normal sized tire (225 section width) they cost around $1,300 per set, or around $330 per tire. They are nearly four times as expensive as normal tires, but they will last just a small fraction of the miles. So no, you do not "get what you pay for" when it comes to life and longevity.
I bought one of those manual tire changers at Harbour Frieght and it works great.I got the balancer too.I've already changed 2 sets of tires and got my money back. Here's a tip when checking pressure.Those rubber valve stems get rotted and cracked just like the tire.When you put the gauge on don't manhandle the stem or bend it sideways because it can cause a slow leak.
I work at Les Schwab so ik what I’m talking about there’s a bar on the tires, it’ll be all through the tread they’re called tire tread wear indicators. if they’re level with the tread, they’re at 2/32s, meaning there’s no more tread left for you to drive on. We recommend you replace your tires at 4/32s period. Go get a tread depth gauge from O’Rileys or something like that. They’re $2 and you never have to guess if you need tires or not ever again.
Scotty - You are absolutely correct about Chinese tires. I thought I got a bargain a few years ago until I spun out on a bit of rain and did $800 worth of damage to my rear axle. It pays to invest in Continentals or Vredesteins.
I can't thank you enough. I mostly trusted the people at Precision Tune. I've let them do all the work on my 2005 Toyota Camry purchased October '14 and they've always seemed honest. They just told me I needed new tires and I trusted my instincts and went with them. I called them and asked them to place the order, but then panicked about whether I did the right thing... so, I watched your video and I'm glad to say they were right on target with your "whys" of needing new tires (scary since my Dad said I'd be good for a few more MONTHS and I have two young children). THANKS, SCOTTY!!!! next time I'll watch your videos FIRST. lol btw, you helped me fix my steering wheel "pull" too!!!
Don’t forget to check the DOT numbers if you can. The DOT number is a long serial number kind of thing with four numbers at the end. e.g. 4517 That means the tire was made in the 45th week of 2017. Usually tires should be replaced when they’re around six years old. So a tire with the numbers 2512 (25th week of 2012) should probably be replaced.
SCOTTYY!!!! YOU STILL EXIST ON THE INTERNET. I am so happy to see how many views you have on your channel!!! When I was in high school and early in college I used to watch your videos to help me diagnose my vehicle issues. Take care,
A better idea is to put a import tax/tariff on them so they're closer to the price of US tires, then take that money and subsidize our industry to bring the cost down. That's how we used to do it before the Clintons and Bushes pushed the mercantilist, globalist, "free trade" NAFTA treaties that gave us ALL THESE ABUNDANT HIGH PAYING JOBS that I hear Americans "just won't do" but migrants will because they're humble- not so desperate they'd work for less than adequate pay.
It's not just that, the work is shoddy so the integrity is inferior. Combine that with the fact that heat and time degrade the rubber while they sit on a hot cargo ship in a steel container floating across the ocean, then they sit on a shelf for years at Wal-Mart or whatever further degrading the rubber so it cracks easier and will unravel much sooner. They used to have tires that never went flat but they got rid of them. Now they have tires that need no air and are like plastic spring-wheels but they're not on the US market because the DOT states all tires must have air in them lol
Scotty you are sooooooo right and I appreciate all your honesty. I just had a discussion with a tire seller/inspection station trying to sucker me. My 6 year old Michelin tires with half tread had a few hairline cracks not connected, like a half inch long. Oh all your tires are dry rotted but we don't sell Michelin so we can't pro-rate them. Then he said if you buy 2 from me I would pass you. Every year I go though this nightmare on 4 cars from seepage issues refereed to as leaking (no visible fluids in my driveway ever) to rusty brake rotors (Micrometer shows plenty of surface). Sure glad National Tire and Battery only wanted $1300 to fix those safety issues. I live in West Virginia and rotors rust, I'll keep my original Toyota brake rotor over the Chinese garbage you want to install Thank You. Just took my car to a station that only did oil changes for the inspection yesterday and the tires passed with flying colors. What idiots would pass a law allowing repair centers to do annual inspections? Sometimes I wish I wasn't a service adviser and sold tires for 7 years and restored/showed muscle cars in my past. I just have to laugh at these punks and move on to the next criminal. The 4 china tires I had on one of my cars went back to Sears with a separation in the tread totally around the tire were 3 years old. They had 10,000 on them and it was in the middle of the tire grove, almost hidden. They Pro-rated them at 100% and I paid the difference for some mid grade American tires. At 60 years old I hope I can work on my own cars until the day I die so I don't have to be bull shitted by some greedy toothless WV criminal. Oh well like they say here it's all relative, wonder what it's going to like in 10 more years?
What was the name of your tire that exploded? My sister's tire exploded too. Luckily she was able to control the vehicle enough and ended up in a shallow ditch with not much damage to the car but needed a new tire and alignment.
My tires were 11 years old-nearing 60 K-when I got a set of Michelin's at Sam's Club before going out to western Pa.from near the Hudson River.The old tires wouldn't have made it on I-80,as some people think the sign indicates the minimum speed.
Just a note on tire shine products: If you are like Scotty and don't need to replace tires very often, using certain tire shine products will cause the tires to dry rot faster, since you are basically adding more and more solvents to the tire rubber which eventually de-galvanizes the tires.
+ReddmanDGZ This is true, the tires do rot faster because because the solvents remove the components that keep the sidewalls pliable (its like using industrial detergent on your skin) but there is no Zinc in the tires so they don't actually de-galvinize.
I totally agree Scotty, they do not make things like they use to. I bought a Maytag dishwasher 4 years ago and it already had one of its 2 pumps go out so the top rack does not wash very good because the rotator does not work. My parents had their old dishwasher over 30 years.
I recently was told 8 years and it's best to replace them, especially California I think sunlight dries out the tires. I agree with Scotty if your'e just driving surface streets it's not a big deal, but don't take chances out on the highway.
Not trillionS-----only a little more than 1 trillion in treasury. The Japanese actually holds more US treasury but most of the US debts are held by Americans-----people like you and me.
You are the best guy I ever saw or heard break down the aspects of a motor vehicle. Thanks for your help. If ever you want helper. I'll be there, if you're in New York. Lol.
Good advice! I used to buy the cheapest tires I could get till I spun out on a highway going 70 with my newborn son in the back. Ever since then, I don't buy tires based on the price, I buy them based on the tread design (rain groove).
The snowtires is had on my car were rotten, they where still in good shape no cracks or anything but one day while driving, and a crappy road thrashing left to right and it blew my right front out :) now i bought the second best set of new snow tires, now i got amazing traction and i don't need to buy newer ones for a few years
I've got 10 year old Michelin LTX M/S tires on my Suburban, plenty of tread. A bit cracked around the shoulder and inside near the bead, but I drive 75 mph on them and they're fine, the cracks haven't gotten worse since last winter and no chunks out of them. Gonna see how they do this winter, if I get stuck I'll just burn them up to have a better excuse to get new ones, A/T's this time.
Scotty--we have two old Fords. One is a '88 T-Bird. It has Firestone Tires on it which are 10 years old this coming July!! We have not driven it much since 2008 and it is a keeper/dust collector staying in the garage 99% of the time. My thoughts about radial tires in the last 20 years are 1) They seem to harden up quickly becoming less able to handle winter traction and 2) Because of 1, they add a hardness element to the ride. The T-Bird tires have developed a brown coloration around the sidewalls? I see no dry rot nor any serious wear signs. The tires have little thread wear, but you are right, Firestone has already claimed the manufacturer date on the tires makes them worn out. I got suckered into buying tires for the '89 Ford because I drive it more, but now I wonder.
there are expensive Chinese tyres and cheep Chinese tyres. You get what you paid for, however I wouldn't agree with your comments about "don't buy Chinese tyres"... as you probably know, Pirelli is owned by the Chinese so does it mean you shouldn't buy Pirelli anymore? A few other well known tyre brands probably have their tyres manufactured in China as well. So, maybe the suggestion would be don't buy the cheapest tyres?
When people say Chinese, they don't exclusively mean manufactured in China. E.g iPhone is made in China, I can use the Xiaomi phone which is Chinese, but for the most part most Chinese phones are crap. Same applies to most Chinese made goods, cos they tend to mass produce at very low prices which has it's probably and cons. I'll agree there're great Chinese products.
I am using the 10 year old winter tyres from the Car I bought 3 months ago, as my summer tyres and at 100° they're perfect and until now, they didn't loose any air. I have a digital pressure gauge and I only lost 1 PSI at each tyre, but that's probalby due the fact, that I measure air pressure once a month. As you said, things were made better at that time.
the reason old tires don't need new air generally is because 78% of the air is nitrogen which doesn't go through the rubber while the 21% oxygen will. on the old tires the oxygen has already escaped and been refilled so the pressure shouldn't drop. if you let all the air out and refill them again they will loose the oxygen all over again
That is balloney. If the fibers and rubber deteriorate due to low quality build all gases would leak under pressure and since the inflated tires are under pressure at around 30+ psi nitrogen would try to find ways to escape as well. Nothing beats the law of physics.
Air consists 70% nitrogen, about less than 21% of oxygen and other games such as carbon dioxide, methane, and ozone. Tires lose pressure because the density of oxygen reacts to temperature, but nitrogen doesn't. This is why cold tire pressure is the right pressure to check and why tires have a max pressure tolerance above the recommended tire pressure from the car manufacturer.
I had a 1992 accord and I put Chinese tires on it. They went after about a couple of years and only 15k miles but hey if your broke it's a pretty good solution for temporarily getting around. Most of the time you couldn't notice you were on Chinese tires
109sciencefreak Yes probably. But I would suggest to buy the best tire you can afford. Because there are not many differences in quality among the cheapest second and third- they all shit tires.
Shanming Hu the very cheapest will get a flat or fall apart soon. 35$ new tires my sister got back in 04' from walmart popped like 6 months in. the 60$ ones around the same time didnt. so there is a difference.
Another way is taking corners as hard as you can(if you have low profile tires). bought my car from my cousin and when i corner my FWD Maxima, it slides on the front end kinda easily. So i put new tires on. Problem fixed. However do only what youre comfortable with. My driving style is taking every corner as hard as i can and treating my town like a race track. a
Don't forget to mention the manufacture date codes near the DOT number. I just checked the tires on my F150 the manufacturing date code was 3712 which meant it was made in the 37th week of 2012. Lots of we're still on the tires but there now 6 years old time for new ones.
The reason the old tires keep the air pressure is because they are filled with air. The new tires are filled with nitrious which slowly escapes and need to be refilled, but performs better than air. The performance difference comes from the fact nitrous does not expand and compress nearly as much as air, making your car have the correct pressure be it hot or cold outside. Case in point. Tires today stop way faster and grip far better than they did 10 years ago.
I work for goodyear we recomend changing your tires @ 2/32 of an inch. (same as the penny trick) there are also wear bars on the tires that show you when its time. also another thing we go buy is the DOT number the last 4 tell you the week and year it was made for EX: if your dot number ends with:1813 that would mean it was made of the 18 week of 2013. at my store we don't touch tires that are more then 7 years old due to it being old and cracking.
You can also get some used tires, just make sure they are less than 3 or 4 years old by checking the date of manufacture that all tires have now. I got some brand name tires off Craigslist for about $24 each. Been using them for 2 years with no problem.
+Roh G Hankook are made in South Korea, they are not as nice as American, Japanese, French or German tires because they don't grip as well and wear out notably quicker but if you are temporality on a tight budget they do work ok (if you have the correct air pressure in them). Keep in mind that cheap tires like these actually cost more in the long run because they just don't last very long.
I keep a $10 hand-powered bicycle pump and a tire pressure gauge in the trunk of my car. I also keep a tire plug kit, extra container / bottle of rubber cement, (and a flashlight) in the trunk so I can seal any holes that a nail might cause in my tire. I use that bike pump so many times to add a bit more air into my tires 2 or 3 times a year that it has become something I don't know how I could have lived without before. Went on a 500 mile trip and got a nail in the tire, causing a slow 'hissing' leak. Jacked up the car, took off the tire, pulled the nail out and let the air 'GUSH' out. 10 minutes later, used the tire plug kit 'rasp' to enlarge the hole just a bit more. Took a plug 'Rope' (rubberized fabric rope-like plug), added it to the inserter, dipped it into the container of rubber cement, then pushed that 'rope' half-way into the hole. Pushed it in about 2 inches, leaving 1 inch sticking out. Let it sit in the tire for about 30 minutes so it would stick itself in place. Cut off the strips of 'rope' sticking out with a pair of wire cutters, and the used my tire pump to pump up the tire. Put the tire back onto the car and it was good to go. Kept using that tire for the next 3 years until the treads wore down and needed to replace the worn out tire. I've done that on 4 tires in my life and it works like a charm. Don't use a drill bit and drill bit to enlarge the hole because unlike the hand rasp, the drill bit will cut the metal cords in the tire and that will ruin the tire, then no plug will fix that tire.
In Austria, we have to replace our tires, when there is less than 2 mm profile depth. If we don't, we get pulled over by the cops, and that costs a ticket.
That is easy: First, they turn on their signals, and then, they pull you over. BTW, in Austria, we have very cold winters, with tons of snow. We have a winter-tyre obligation starting in october and lasting till easter. If we fail to follow that, our car ensurances won't pay, when accidents occure. And when the tread depth is too low, you lose control in curves, and the car is hard to steer around corners. Some ppl are so careless, they drive with summer tyres in winter, and cause many accidents.
Not all Chinese tires are bad. I got a set of Sailuns on my old car and they performed great in the snow and showed almost no wear after about 30k miles of use.
My tires are made in China and they’re still on my car after 7 years of driving. I don’t believe most of the hate on Chinese products have to do with their quality, I think it has more to do with racism and American envious of China and the fact that they want to destroy the Chinese economy. I have bought many Chinese products, such as fishing rods and find that many of them have actually outperformed American-made ones and I paid 1/5 for the prices as well! Last year I allowed myself to splurg and I bought a St Croix fishing rod that cost over $200. Well, that lasted no more than two fishing trips before the tip snapped off when I fought a small salt water fish! Some of my Chinese-made rods have been with me for over 30 years and I still have them with me and I have fished with them very often since I was a young lad in middle school! Sometimes when people try to damn something on purpose by bad-mouthing it I go out of my way to see if it is true by purchasing it and give it a try to see if it is true. After many tries with Chinese products I find that besides the high-tech stuff, such as tablets and smart phones I actually think most Chinese goods are actually superior to American made goods! - especially if you’re grading them on the prices that you’re paying for. On many household goods the Chinese goods actually go out of their way to make them better than American-made goods since they know they have to overcome the prejudice that Americans have against them. The anti-Chinese sentiments are nothing new, years ago the Americans used to say the exact same things about Japanese goods! Americans just have to accept the fact that there are countries now that could make goods as good as theirs or better at a lower cost since labor costs are not the same as theirs. China has the manufacturing sect down because it has a young educated population that could do better work at a fraction of the costs of American labor. But the US economy is not based on manufacturing, it is based in the service industry and it’s time those uneducated white Americans learn the skills to fulfill those positions instead of crying about the Chinese and trying to bring them down by spreading lies about them!
Not all Chinese products are bad. My laptops, microwave ovens, toasters, TVs, air purifiers...were all made in China. They all lasted more than 10 years.
Not too difficult. Instead of the top of Lincoln's head showing you check for the top of the Queen's head. If you can see her crown then it's time for new tires. Word is your new penny will have Trump's head on it. When you can see how empty it is that's when you need new tires! Lol
Right...They'r actually pretty hard to come by nowadays...I think we here in Canada stopped using pennies like 6 yrs ago...I measure my tires with the moose head on a quarter...as Canadian as it gets... ;)
I work at a discount tire and I would recommend their store-brand Arizonians to people who want a cheap tire. Steer clear from Barums and Senturys. I put Senturys on the front of my rwd truck and they're already almost warn out after 20,000mi
You and me are old enough to remember when they didn't have chinese tires for sale in usa. thanks for calling chinese junk tires for what they are-JUNK!!
I read recently that dry rot/cracking is common when you don't drive enough. When the tire is flexed and heated up, it releases oil compounds that protect its most outer layer from ozone/uv Rays. When you don't drive much, the rubber gets dried up by the air/sunlight.
+the7mad9cap7laughs Around me, getting caught doing 100 mph is an automatic arrest. But I do remember an unfinished interstate that was used for drag racing and top speed runs for a while.
I like my Kuhmo tires! I have owned just about every tire under the sun but for the money and the performance you can't go wrong with a Kuhmo tire in my opinion.
I had what I will call "HandCock" tires (they were Chinese) were good for the first year, then they all started going crazy, not sure if they were going out of round or belts were screwed up inside but they would not hold a balance and were just awful, felt like out of round... Now I only been using General Altimax for the last 3 tire changes and love them!
I got Hankook tires by default when I bought by 2015 passat. 38k miles I have put on them till now and they have never given any issues. No punctures, skidding or anything. I have driven 17 hours at one time with small breaks and never had any issues. I think they are good.
We have an old 80 dodge ram that we use for hauling water for the garden and other stuff, use it about once a month on average. It had 35 year old tires on it, nearly bald and quite hard, but we didn't care. This year, 2 of them got big cracks in em. They were leaking air so fast you could hear it, and find it by feeling the rush of air. So we bought some tires from a second hand shop. XD
