Tire side wall cracks?

[slowzuki]

My titan's cracked, been that way since 2005. On the other hand, my Michellin's cracked, and are now losing air via the sidewall.

 

[Jay4200]

All bogus. I have yet to see even the cheapest automotive tire crack before 20 years, and they are surely outside all the time. Considering these things cost ~$400-500 per tire, this type of premature aging is absolutely unacceptable.

JayC

 

[texasjohn]

Uh, Jay...your "All bogus" statement is a little too blunt and too broad.

Surely you do not wish to imply that everyone who has posted their personal experience re tire cracks at less than 20 years is making it up

Sixdogs, OP says tractor is 13 months old.

 

[beeforty]

I too have had car tires less than 20 years crack(used on trailer from junked car) and wouldn't hold air. But my 27 year old tires on little Ford 1200 are still hanging in there, hold air, starting to crack some.

 

[crash325]

I have a little problem with this tire. The tread sort of fell off and I think the tube leaks.

Maybe a patch and some super glue to put the tread back on??

 

[civesnedfield]

Here is a photo of the sidewall. This is typical on both rear tires.View attachment 202553

Yep rider thats one of the issues with the Titans. The picture that rd_macgregor posted is another one of the issues. Titan never told me what they thought caused the problem but they know about it.

 

[texasjohn]

Crash...uh.....did you choose your name before or after taking that photo:laughing:
I would agree, there are just a few cracks in that tire

 

[slan]

Do you work for Titan, cause that sounds like the company line. These tires absolutly s#ck. It is a problem that Titan knows about and does nothing to fix. They had an extremely bad batch of tires and do nothing for the customers that have them. The cracks are not from inflation issues or overloading. Believe me I have been thru THREE sets of these pieces of trash.

Gee, sorry I hit an obvious sore point with you. I was just sharing the fact that one of a pair of new tires looked EXACTLY like the one in the photo and the other one was fine. This was due to underinflation.
As for being a company man, you should have taken the time to look at my past posts and you would have seen this is my only reference to tire

Too much coffee?

 

[whiskywizard]

That's the problem with buying American. Maybe you can find some good reliable offshore tires to replace the American Titans. Don't the Koreans make tires?

 

[Jay4200]

Uh, Jay...your "All bogus" statement is a little too blunt and too broad.

Surely you do not wish to imply that everyone who has posted their personal experience re tire cracks at less than 20 years is making it up

Sixdogs, OP says tractor is 13 months old.

No - I mean that a tire cracking before 20 years is BOGUS! It is inexcusable and I would consider it an obvious manufacturing defect. Guys with cracked tires after a year (or even 5) should be demanding their money back so they can replace their defective tires.

My tractor's rear tires were a little cracked when I bought the machine - they were no more than 8 years old, assuming they were original (can turfs last 2500 hours?). I think the machine was stored outside for those 8 years, but that is no excuse. I put another 500+ hours on over the past 6 years, and they haven't gotten much worse. They still look better than the OPs tires. I kept the machine under cover for most of that time, and run ~25PSI in the rears. The fronts had and still have no cracks.

JayC