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Tire life question
Yahoo Message Number: 67004
With all of the discussion on replacing tires I was wondering what kind of mileage users are getting on their LD and what they use as a guide of tread wear to replace. I am aware of a 3/16' tread remaining being used maybe even a law in California. On cars I usually replace at about '' tread depth remaining and get 50,000 to 60,000 miles on a car but are wondering what to expect on our 26 MB.

Richard Magruder in HMAWAY 26' MB

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Re: Tire life question
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Yahoo Message Number: 67008
With all of the discussion on replacing tires I was wondering what kind of mileage users are getting on their LD and what they use as a guide of tread wear to replace. I am aware of a 3/16" tread remaining being used maybe even a law in California. On cars I usually replace at about ¼" tread depth remaining and get 50,000 to 60,000 miles on a car but are wondering what to expect on our 26 MB.


 For *most* people driving an RV, they'll have to buy new tires based on the age of the tire long before they ever have to replace them based on tread depth.

Linda Hylton

2004 Red 23.5' TK http://map.datastormusers.com/user1.cfm?user=1167 http://earl-linda.blogspot.com/
Linda Hylton
Re: Tire life question
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Yahoo Message Number: 67011
Linda is correct, but to give you an idea, we replaced the notorious Firestone's last year at five years and just under 60K miles.  These were on the rear of our 2000 MB and looking at just the thread, I would guess we could have squeezed another 10K or so out of them.  The fronts were replaced much earlier due to delaying our first alignment as I have stated in privious posts.

Rich Gort
2000 MB

Birch Bay, WA
Former 2000 MB- Now Bullet Crossfire 1800RB trailer pulled by a Chevy 2500HD
 
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Yahoo Message Number: 67013
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With all of the discussion on replacing tires I was wondering what kind of mileage users are getting on their LD and what they use as a guide of tread wear to replace. I am aware of a 3/16" tread remaining being used maybe even a law in California. On cars I usually replace at about ¼" tread depth remaining and get 50,000 to 60,000 miles on a car but are wondering what to expect on our 26 MB.
----- Tread depth minimums on cars and RVs (or any vehicle over 10000 pounds gross) are different.  For passenger car/truck tires, the "replacement depth" is 2/32"; for an over-10000 pounds vehicle, the replacement depth is 4/32".  (Yes, 1/16" and 1/8", but tread depth measurement tools are marked in 1/32" increments.)

As Linda said, it's far more likely that an RV's tires will "age out" before the tread wears to an unsafe level (unless the RVer is on the go enough to wear out the tread before the "sidewall life" of the tire is reached.)  Other factors which affect tire tread (and sidewall) life are overloading, underinflation, and *mis-alignment*; this last causes the tread to wear unevenly (to say nothing of contributing to poor handling and control).

Joan
2003 TK has a new home