Been thinking about what to do with some 6 year old snow tires off an older car. [Yes I know, they're "too old".] Dawned on me this morning, maybe they'd fit my car? Not sure yet. But at some point, during some pandemic spree buying, I picked up a tire durometer, and, what the heck, let's see what some numbers are.
Garage door opener says the interior wall is 46F in the garage today, and everything's been in there for a couple of days. So I'll assume the same temperature for all (snows are stacked next to the car).
Six year old snows (General Artic something).
Some RT43's that I had put on in August, about 8kmiles ago.
Not sure I got into nice wide areas of the blocks (darn siping! oh wait, that's a good feature! ) but those are a couple of spot checks. I should probably start a logbook somewhere, age, temperature and measurements.
Maybe I'll not bother with swapping, the new tires might be softer...
In other news, just realized, I must have forgotten to rotate these new tires, I can feel the feathering start. Great... so much for hoping alignment and new struts would fix that problem.
Anyhow. Random I know, but it's Saturday.
Garage door opener says the interior wall is 46F in the garage today, and everything's been in there for a couple of days. So I'll assume the same temperature for all (snows are stacked next to the car).
Six year old snows (General Artic something).
Some RT43's that I had put on in August, about 8kmiles ago.
Not sure I got into nice wide areas of the blocks (darn siping! oh wait, that's a good feature! ) but those are a couple of spot checks. I should probably start a logbook somewhere, age, temperature and measurements.
Maybe I'll not bother with swapping, the new tires might be softer...
In other news, just realized, I must have forgotten to rotate these new tires, I can feel the feathering start. Great... so much for hoping alignment and new struts would fix that problem.
Anyhow. Random I know, but it's Saturday.
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