Re: Snow tire life?

[Tom Nas <tnas@euronet.nl>]

tomh@metrics.com (Tom Haapanen) wrote:

>My wife's GTI has an older set of snows (Pirelli Winter 190, actually),
>that are not yet worn out.  However, they *are* getting old.  What is
>a reasonable number of winters to drive on a set of snows?  And when would
>they actually become unsafe to drive on?

A -usually reliable- car mag I read recently, said you shouldn't use tyres
older than 10 years. It's however advisable not to use any tyres with
hairline cracks in the sidewalls, and this can happen much earlier when the
tyres have been exposed to heat.

HTH,

Tom

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