Vanishing tire models

IA Leo · Oct 17, 2011

My old Sears/Bradley wagon with a load of split wood went lame. Guess what everybody says: 14 inch tires are hard to find...tell me something I just found out! Two rear tires are 900-14 and look good after 60? years. One front P205/75R14 radial car tire looks weary, the other front one just started splitting down the middle!
So what kind of car ever used 14" tires? I am too old for late night liberation, but want to understand just how pricey this saving money burning wood might get! Leo

641Dave · Oct 17, 2011

Sure seems to me that allot of the toyotas back in the 80s and 90s had 14" tires on them.

Dan-IA · Oct 17, 2011

Most of my cars used 14 inch tires. 85 Buick Century, 86 Chevy Celebrity, 1994 Plymouth Sundance. All are basically small to mid-size sedans. I can get my tires 185/75R14 or thereabouts, at wally world for about $52-$54 a pop. not any problems with availability around here.

Dell (WA) · Oct 17, 2011

Leo........fer a tractor wagon, gitt enny 14"-tire from used tire emporium. $20 cheap. You will NOT OVERLOAD enny 14"-steelbelted tire. Simple, eh? .........Dell

Lloyd In South Carolina · Oct 17, 2011

Check your lug pattern, if you have clearance you may be able to upgrade to 15" wheels, and therefore get more common tires.

Local junk yard will have a big selection. Might even find them with tires already mounted.

L.

IA Leo · Oct 17, 2011

found a couple after many phone calls. They don't have to look purty, just hold air. Leo

bill mart · Oct 17, 2011

try Coker tire,they have many 14" tires

Red Mud · Oct 17, 2011

I'd like to go to 15" but hate to give up the original hubcaps.

Fordfarmer · Oct 17, 2011

15" may be more common, but 14" are not uncommon. My local tire dealer stocks 9.5L14's, maybe other sizes.
As far as used tires, many cars from the '60's had 14", including 1st generation Mustangs. I'm quite sure there were models with 14" in the '80's and '90's also.

Goose · Oct 17, 2011

Of the cars I've owned, from a '57 Mercury to an '84 Buick Century, and most in between, had 14's.

Anonymous-0 · Oct 17, 2011

I drive a 96 mazda B2300 pickemup, 195 75 14's up to 225 75 14's. Basic S-10 gooberment moters/isuzu uses 14's, too.

Leroy · Oct 17, 2011

My 98 Plymouth Voyager uses 14" as did the 80's and earlier 90's Chrysler product vans And the 84 E class Chrysler and my 85 and 94 & 96 Olds did also. Also the 86 S10.

Anonymous-0 · Oct 17, 2011

Fords in Oz..

ShadetreeRet · Oct 17, 2011

Ford Motor Co. went to 14" tires on all their standard models as well as T-Birds in 1957. It was a big advertising point, because it helped make the cars lower and sleeker. I think that GM and most others did at about the same time. (Except for pickups which went from 16" to 15" somewhere along that time.

thebigyellowtruck · Oct 17, 2011

ford ranger 2wd trucks came with 14 inch wheels until the late 90's. 14 inch trailer tires arent hard to come by in my neck of the woods. You can get a used 14 inch trailer tire with about 80-90% tread left on it for $30 a piece too. I suggest checking out the used tire places to get good deals on 14 inch tires with any kind of significant load rating on them.

oj · Oct 17, 2011

out of interest, my old IH 6200 drill had 14 inch tire on the transport wheels... might find some of those somewhere...

fixerupper · Oct 17, 2011

There were plenty of 14" tired cars from the 1950's and on up to today. The problem comes with the tires from the past 30 or 40 years being too wide for the old wagon rims. My old rock hauling wagon has 14's. They were getting rotten so I started asking around for used car tires at the tire dealers. I did find a set of practically new ones that had been ice picked, for free, but a lot of the ones the dealers had were either too wide or they had those narrow low profile sidewalls that are so cool today. Can you imagine how small an ultra low profile tire is on a 14" rim? On a humerous note, the young man at the store that gave me the tires told me a patch will never hold on a sidewall. I agreed with him but I told him I was going to use tubes. He looked at me with a question mark on his face and asked me what a tube was!!! Any young man who has only worked on car tires probably wouldn't know what a tube is today. Jim

old · Oct 17, 2011

Many cars used 14s and even a lot of small truck. Have 2 or 3 cars here that have 14s on them. You should be able to find good used ones from a tire place for around $10-30 each depending on how good they are and if you have them mount them

Don-Wi · Oct 17, 2011

Plenty of 14" trailer tires are around. Put 2 on our older Oliver field cultivator a few years ago that has 14" tires on. Both old car tires on it went flat in the same field on the same day.

Donovan from Wisconsin

IA Roy · Oct 17, 2011

Dad's 66 Plymouth Fury had 14's, My 64 Mercury Comet, 1970 Chevelle, 1977 Plymouth Volare, I think. My son's 89 Plymouth Voyager, Another son's 89 Grand Am, I believe. All our 5 ton wagon gears in the 60's were 14's to take advantage of used car tires. They were a little too thin for a 200 bushel wagon. We blew a few on the smaller wagons also. Crushed limestone is a little hard on them.

John Harmon · Oct 17, 2011

My car tow dolly I use to tow my car behind the motor home has 14" wheels and tires.I bought a spare for it this summer at Big O Tires and a wheel at an RV place.They were 14" also.Big O just went to a back room and brought the new 14" tire out to the guy to mount on the new Wheel.Point is the 14" equipment are not obsolete as is thought by people.

ShepFL · Oct 17, 2011

I ended up going to heavy ply trailer tires used on boat trailers.

As to vanishing tires I am challeged to find the following now:

31x10.5x15 for Mrs. ShepFL's Jeep
7.50x16 for my new tractor hauler.

Prices are OUTRAGEOUS!!

Mel in SW Iowa · Oct 18, 2011

2wd Datsun/Nissan, Toyota, etc. pickups often had
6ply 14's.

Mike M · Oct 18, 2011

The real "story" in this is the fact that you have some still good after 60 years. New tires will be junk in 6 years ? No quality in anything anymore.

Leroy · Oct 18, 2011

Still have some good marked S-3 that was WWII model made in 45-46 as far as I know.

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