To my eyes, the photos don't reveal dry rot. If the tires have spent more time exposed to the sun that not since they were installed, that would cause concern. If the tires were mine, I'd use them until they A) revealed dry rot, or b) wore out. How did I come to this opinion? I worked as a copywriter on Goodyear national advertising (newspaper/TV) from 1995 to 2002. Our ad agency team (J.Walter Thompson/Detroit) made multiple trips to Akron, OH to keep up with developments that would help us create ads that delivered tangible benefits and motivate people to shop Goodyear. So we spent a good amount of time picking the brains Goodyear engineers. And for those of you who believe advertising is dishonest, let me say that every ad I wrote had to have documented substantiation from said engineers, and go through TWO legal departments (JWT/Goodyear) before the public saw or heard a word.
Tire Dry Rot or Not
One of our vehicles has Michelin Defender tires with close to 50K miles on them. The tires are 6 years and 3 months old. Tread is 5 - 6 32nds. Since the car will be around longer than the useful life of the current tires I figured I would just replace them now. I'm also curious if any of the photos show dry rot. Dry rot photos online typically show tires with far worse but figured I would share here for some feedback.
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