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Originally Posted by CapriRacer
If by that you mean less likely to crack, that would be so. But aging is more about the chemical and physical state of the rubber - how well it's strength is holding up and how well it is adheres to adjacent components. It's those things that cause the tire to fail. And those things seem to be more correlated to heat.
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Heat is also correlated to pressure. Underinflated tires get very hot on the highway. I had a slow leak in my right rear and it was almost too hot to touch even though it wasn't riding the rim yet.
The other tires were about at ambient running 42 PSI.
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2011 Honda Insight + HID, LEDs, tiny PV panel, extra brake pad return springs, neutral wheel alignment, 44/42 PSI (air), PHEV light (inop), tightened wheel nut.
  lifetime FE over 0.2 Gigameter or 0.13 Megamile.
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