When buying new car tires for your car, how "new" are they really? It's not something we all think about when we purchase a new tire from a major tire store because they are brand new. But how long have those "brand new" tires been sitting in the storage building? An investigation turns out that there are alot of brand new tires that have been sitting collecting dust for 6 years or more!! This can lead to a greater potential tire blow out usually by tread separation from a tire that has degraded internally over the years just piled up in some storage room waiting to be purchased.

saw this on SCP ...passing it forward to yall. i though this was interesting.


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who has the oldest tire on their car at the moment?

 

never really thought about that, i have a set of 16" tyres sitting in my garage for a while and the guy i bought it from had them sitting in his garage for a while so i guess they cud b pritty old, until i can finally buy a set of rims to stick them on...

 

I always buy "crrent" model tires that haven't been around more than a year or 2 .. I've known that for years. Specially big chains like Sears and Wal-mart. They order 60,000 tires a shot and sit on them till they sell.

 

i just check the date on the sidewall by the DOT number

 

Discount Tire FTW....rotating stock like crazy. I guess it helps to be the Nations largest Independent tire dealer.

 

heh...discount tire direct.com ftl


that means they are getting rid of those old tires. booo

 

Yeah in all likelyhood they are buying p the older stock from the tire manufacturers

 

Just a question of my own, if you want 16's do u have to change the stock tires?

 

stock tires are either 14" or 15". If you go to 16", you'll need new tires.

 

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When buying new car tires for your car, how "new" are they really? It's not something we all think about when we purchase a new tire from a major tire store because they are brand new. But how long have those "brand new" tires been sitting in the storage building? An investigation turns out that there are alot of brand new tires that have been sitting collecting dust for 6 years or more!! This can lead to a greater potential tire blow out usually by tread separation from a tire that has degraded internally over the years just piled up in some storage room waiting to be purchased.

Tires stored in fairly cool storage out of sunlight have a pretty long shelf life; at least 10 years.
Always look for cracks in the rubber around the tread layer and bulges in the sidewall for refusal.
The date of manufacture is stamped in the sisewall in the week and year of manufacture. If the age is of concern consult that date and refuse those that are too old in your opinion.

And yes, as Kenchan says, the tread cracks and sidewall bulges are most important.

 

i never new there was a date stamped on the sidewall, must check this out...

 

i wouldn't go just by the datecode. as mahout mentioned, look for
cracks at the base of the tread block and bubbles on the sidewall.

some tires (like my 06 LegacyWgn's factory tires) cracked at the tread
after only 2 seasons...

 

Sometimes clearance tires are pretty old, about 2 or 3 years old but in storage until they get to you.

Each tire on one sidewall has four digit number stamped on it, it might look like 3607 for the 36th week in 2007. Usually for a set of four tires the date is the same but there can be differences.

Most times tires are fairly new. Just be careful when you get a good price or a closeout on an old model.

 

::runs to car to check date::

W000T 3107 = 31st week in 2007. Kinda figured cuz they are the new model falken ze-912's just released last year. =]

::runs to RV to check tire::
5003 = 50th week in 2003. Not too bad. =]

 

dam son! RV too...shiiieet doing things big huh.