Toyo tires wtf!!!!!

[WhtMa71]

^This thread isn't about how well your car handles with toyo tires..but thanks anyway..
Proxes are all season tires, they're not meant to have the most outstanding street performance.

 

[Island_Yota]

I wish I had chunking Proxes,

I have Bfgoodrich "traction T/A's" the edges wore off them, apparently a flaw with them.. sounds like any Bfg to me, weak ass sidewalls. They do grip really well though and they aren't super loud.

 

[Poodles]

in my acura i was rolling with proxes and they sucked for cornering.. omg.. i went from coopers to proxes and that blew chunks.. the car was an acura integra and the handling with the coopers were waaaaay better.. alot stickers but a little more road noise... and then my friends mr2's handling went to shit when he got his proxes... i will never buy proxes again.. but if i come across a free set i will be willing to burn them off lol..

Coopers are GARBAGE, won't ever touch em again.

Also, BFG's have some of the stiffest sidewalls these days on some of their tires, dunno where you're getting that they're weak...

 

[BlackDynamite]

Every tire i have bought new,for my supra, has been the BFG GeForce Sport. Great tire! Handles great and they last a good while. Cost a little more, but worth it. IMO

I get coopers for my nova because they're cheap, last, and smoke real easy without destroying the tread ;]

I have a temporary set of used toyo's on the front now and they work fine for me.

 

[Keros]

Thats an excellent video, it's amazing how they can do shit like that, when they are over 3 years of sitting they should require them to be melted and make new tires from that rubber

You can't just melt down vulcanized rubber and reuse it, if it were that simple, we'd have done it

Wow, you blew chunks of tread off two tires at the same time? You are one lucky dude, if nothing bad happened as a result!

I guess my only comment of any real substance is to ask what the heat rating of said tires were? Almost any tire you can buy to fit an 18" rim is probably going to have a decently high heat rating, and to get it to deteriorate at normal highway driving conditions would require you to run it REALLY low on air. Not just -5psi, I mean like... 25% or more low. But to lose two at the same time, and to have several do it over any period of time is nuts. Crazyness!

I've found that tires lose about 1-2psi (depending on tire size) per month at rest, and about 1psi or less per month when being driven regularly. If your tires are at 32psi, it'd take atleast 4-6 months of regular driving to get a serious low pressure condition.

If you still have the carcasses, check the DOT number for the date, as in the link Figit posted.

Other than that, if you can't trust your tires, you can't trust shit all. Almost anything else on the car could catastrophically fail and you'd stand a decent chance of surviving the following chaos... but a single tire failure can be fatal.