The first two pictures are of my rear tire on the same side of the car, they're a reference to how the tire should look.



Here is the tire in question, would you replace this tire if you saw that you had a tire like this on your car?




The wear bars are getting close to the 2/32 anyway but I thought I should ask, regardless of the wear bars, if you saw that your tire was like this, would you replace it immediately or not. Also I was wondering, is dismounting a tire by hand with a 45 sidewall more difficult than one with a 70 sidewall? (Larger side wall) I got a replacement tire for $30 yesterday and I thought before I replace my current tire, I was curious whether or not replacing this tire immediately was necessary or not.

 

Id replace if i was you. You can usally get a tire used for $20... much safer then using that.. Even if wall is only thing damaged, I wouldnt take chance!

 

My recommendation is that you read the following web pages in the Tire Tech section of the Tire Rack's website:

Rubber Cracking - http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tirete....jsp?techid=30

Tire Aging - http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tirete...jsp?techid=138

Determining the Age of a Tire - http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tirete....jsp?techid=11

As noted in the section on Rubber Cracking, the most common cause or contributor to tire cracking is age. And if you read the section on tire aging, it basically says that tires last six to ten years. So the first thing I would do is to determine the age of the tire in question. If it's over ten years old, toss it, no question. If it's not, well... do whatever you think is best (but I would probably still toss it).

HTH

 

In short, yes. Replace them. The cracks are actually separating the tread blocks from the tread surface. Not a good thing.

 

Replace that dryrot **** be 4 your sorry

 

replace the tire in question... and while you have the rim off clean it up real nice... it looks like they could use some tlc

 

At first I thought it was dry rot, but then I remembered that at one point the tires were really under inflated and were driven on and so I feel like they're stress cracks. Either way I felt I should take pictures of the tire before I got rid of it and so I did, and judging by the replies on this board, it was in fact a good idea for me to get a replacement tire, the only thing I'm waiting for now is to make sure my replacement tire (used) doesn't leak or explode but judging by how new the New used tire looked and not seeing any real scuff marks or what not, I think my $30 tire will suffice just fine. I have no pics of the new tire. I thought I'd mention that the old tire was from 2004, so it wasn't too old and technically shouldn't have had dry rotting which is why I believed it to be stress marks, though you'd think there'd be stress marks on both sides (edges) of the tire if it was underinflated. Maybe it's a combination of stress and the sun beating on the tire, whatever, I got the new tire mounted for $16 and I guess I'm happy I didn't spend too much dealing with this one tire.