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Originally Posted by trikkonceptz
This is not sarcasm, but what about maintenance? By that I mean washing your tires or scrubbing then when you wash your car. Or using a silicone based product to keep the sidewalls from cracking. I assume its refered to as dry rot, which would indicate that the sidewalls have dried up, kinda like when leather seats crack.
There is preventive maintenance to keep that from happening, those of you living in cold climates may have to stay on top of your tires a bit more than warmer climate owners.
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I'm not sure how well maintenance works, I made point for a while to be consistantly cleaning and treating the tires on my diesel suburban but ended up with the same issue not long after. To me it seems to be more to do with the type of tire more than maintenance as I've had several sets of very cheap "desert dog" tires that lasted close to 100k aka 8yrs of driving on that paticular vehicle and the sidewalls did not crack, eventually the tread fell off but the tires were only rated at 30000 miles. I've had more expensive tires start cracking within a few years, it is never consistant but I have to say it seems to happen much quicker lately like the tires aren't made as well. But yes I do live in the northern areas.
What types of treatment actually work? I have used several different types without much luck.