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| Above, the new tire. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
Yesterday, I bought a tire for the Jeep to replace the one that went flat a few days ago. When I took the tire off the Jeep, I saw a three inch crack or cut. So the tire was not repairable.
Thanks to Larry Lucier, we brought it and the rim to the tire dealer in Gallup to have the new one mounted. When the tire technician took the old tire off, he noted that it was a Cooper Discoverer tire no longer being made. He looked at its manufacturing date code and found that the tire was made in 1989. The dealer's supervisor laughed that the tire was older than his workers.
The new tire is the current Cooper version.
It is likely that the three remaining tires on the Jeep are of the same age and I will have get them replaced. I'm putting the new one on the Jeep today.
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