ALL tire dressings cause dry rot/premature tire failure ???!!!

[MattPersman]

I will try to post a pic tonight after work

I’ll look around here too for one


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[FUNX650]

Re: ALL tire dressings cause dry rot/premature tire failure ???!!!


“Ain’t No Way” ~Aretha Franklin (ca.1968)

Furthermore (FME):
No; how could all of them/why should
all of them be the causation of such harm
that this thread title mentions?



Bob

[Don M]

Re: ALL tire dressings cause dry rot/premature tire failure ???!!!


“Ain’t No Way” ~Aretha Franklin (ca.1968)

Furthermore (FME):
No; how could all of them/why should
all of them be the causation of such harm
that this thread title mentions?



Bob

Beats me, but it was just such an outrageous statement, I thought I'd better check here to see what every one thought. I didn't think it was 100% valid either.

[MattPersman]

I’ll look around here too for one


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Here is a Michelin. Side wall and tread this one is starting to.






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[brianshaeffer]

Is that a nail in the tire in the bottom picture?

[Rsurfer]

Here is a Michelin. Side wall and tread this one is starting to.






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That's a lot of thread for a side wall that is so deteriorated. If you look on the inside of the thread, it's also cracking and you don't apply tire dressing to the inside or outside of the tread. Looks to me that the tire is defective or is a 100 years old tire. lol

[Desertnate]

That's a lot of thread for a side wall that is so deteriorated. If you look on the inside of the thread, it's also cracking and you don't apply tire dressing to the inside or outside of the tread. Leaves to me that the tire is defective or is a 100 years old.

The Yokohama tires I mentioned previously looked like that after four years...though with less tread. The same types of cracks were appearing on the outside of the outer tread blocks as well where they met the sidewalls.

[Don M]

Mine look a lot like this, with some checkering on the actual sidewalls (and more tread left).

[jmeyers278]

the only thing hard on tires is not using them. The chemicals added to keep them from drying out and checking don't get pushed through the rubber when it isn't flexing and compressing from driving on them. "Flat Spots" are not what people need to worry about from vehicles not being driven, its the drying out of the rubber. Modern, decent tire dressings won't hurt them at all.

[ScottH]

RSurfer was spot on - tons of dry rotting inside the tread wells. Me thinks this is bad rubber! I've always kept my tires dressed for the better part of the last 30 years across 10+ vehicles, and never once experience dry rot or even close to it. Not saying there isn't an outside of chance of it being true in some cases, but I've never seen it.

ScottH