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Pics below. These are the rear tires are on my 2014 Accord. The fronts are 2020 year tires and these rear ones are the originals from the factory (dated 2014). The car has spent most of its life garaged in a tropical climate and has 22,000 miles on the odometer right now.
If you zoom in on the first pic you can make out some consistent hairline cracking on the outside (left side of the tire as pictured) edge of the tread blocks. If you zoom in on the 2nd pic the insides don't have any cracking. It's hard to see but there is some very light cracking in the gaps between the treads, but nothing major. I didn't take a picture of the sidewalls but they don't have any cracking. FWIW the front tires look more or less pristine.
To me these tires look good enough to run for another year or two which is about the likely tread life of the tires, especially considering these are the rear tires on a front wheel drive vehicle, but I am far from an expert. Also my traction on wet roads seems to be fine. Am I crazy?
If you zoom in on the first pic you can make out some consistent hairline cracking on the outside (left side of the tire as pictured) edge of the tread blocks. If you zoom in on the 2nd pic the insides don't have any cracking. It's hard to see but there is some very light cracking in the gaps between the treads, but nothing major. I didn't take a picture of the sidewalls but they don't have any cracking. FWIW the front tires look more or less pristine.
To me these tires look good enough to run for another year or two which is about the likely tread life of the tires, especially considering these are the rear tires on a front wheel drive vehicle, but I am far from an expert. Also my traction on wet roads seems to be fine. Am I crazy?