Cracks around tread?

[4x4Hemi]

Recently ive started to notice that around the outside tread on my tires its starting to have small cracks? is this normal or is it going to be an issue? i havent even had the tires a year yet and have about 12000 km on em.



Any ideas? im not sure if its warrantied or not, i mean ive only had em on for 8 or 9 months maaaaybe

 

[SmokedRam]

What kind of tires? If you remember Bighorn4life or whatever his name was had bad problems with his tires cracking too.

 

[LS5DodgeRam]

Mud tires do this a lot, they are not really built for the stress the road can give them, and also has to do if you are in a hot area it'll dry the rubber out and that doesnt help at all. I tried to buy a truck specifically to go mudding, and the tires on it were so bad an entire chunk of the tread was missing... All from.the cracks forming around it. It has happened to almost all the mud tires I have seen, and sometimes they are bad and sometimes minor

 

[jake09]

My last set of nittos did it..won't hurt anything unless its crazy dry rotted..but like said above, scott got his trail grapplers replaced bc of it..No telling how much he had to complain to get nitto to replace them! haha

 

[LS5DodgeRam]

What kind of tires? If you remember Bighorn4life or whatever his name was had bad problems with his tires cracking too.

Those appear to be toyo open country m/t.... But that's strange because the toyo muds are the most street ready mud tires that I have had experience with

 

[4x4Hemi]

Well I live in Edmonton where its winter most of the year haha these tires have been on snow and ice for probably 5 months, so its not the heat that will eat em up

So its not worth complaining about and they will think im a big dink for coming in complaining about a very average thing??

Their Durun terrain grapplers, a relatively new mud tire on the market

 

[smiley]

I also live where it is very cold most of the year it seems and my all terrains are also doing this after 2 years of hell. I don't think it is an issue but I guess if it could get me knew tires maybe I should complain.

 

[jake09]

If you think you can get them replaced i would complain !!

 

[smiley]

Well here are mine and they are A/T not a mudder so really should not be doing it. They are dirty in this pic with salt but if you look around every block there are cracks. I have 33k on them in 2 years.

$miley

 

[4x4Hemi]

Hmm well it seems normal, ill complain and see what they say though haha

 

[Etroze86]

Toyo will stand behind that tire if it isn't satisfying you and don't let the dealer tell you different. I used to sell tires for Toyo and I even got them to warranty a nail in the side wall. They are big on having 100% satisfied customers.

 

[4x4Hemi]

I wish it was toyo and not Durun terrain grapplers haha

 

[Etroze86]

Are those made by Nitto? If so Toyo makes Nitto

 

[4x4Hemi]

Nope their Durun, a company out of the UK, generally makes street tires

 

[Etroze86]

Oh ok, yeah I've seen a few vehicles around here running those.

 

[LS5DodgeRam]

Are those made by Nitto? If so Toyo makes Nitto

hmmm... that is news to me! I had no idea

 

[Etroze86]

Yep they are their own biggest competitor in CA. The rep that comes and visits our shop hates dealing with those areas cause Toyo will undercut itself just for satisfied customers.