If you have a radial tire come apart, those steel belts can really mess up the
paint around that wheel well. At least the belts in the non-radial tire
probably won't do that kind of damage. That's one advantage of a bias tire
over a radial, at least a steel belted one.
Of course, the best option is not to have a tire fail.
Mark
> I'm gonna watch this one... The last tire thread left me thinking our circa
> 1987 H78-15s (with tons of tread left) are no longer "safe". What exactly
> WAS the width of the whitewall on those 9.50-15s back then????
>
> B&T Roddick, Port Orchard, WA
> 1964 Imperial Crown (project)
> 1972 'Cuda 340 (Tami's toy)
> 1995 Concorde
> 1988 Wrangler
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