Expiry Date on Tyres

Submitted: Wednesday, Jun 09, 2004 at 16:52
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On a recent trip to the north west, I had the misfortune of blowing 2 rear tyres of which one stripped, causing substantial damage to the rear of my cruiser. These tyres had about 40% tread left on them. About 6 weeks prior to leaving, one of the front tyres bubbled and started seperating, which I replaced without hesitation thinking it was a on off problem. All 3 tyres where purchased at the same time.

On returning from our holiday, I thought I would send the tyre that I could salvage into the tyre manufactures to assess it, thinking that they may probably be from a bad batch and maybe should have been recalled. The response I got from them left me gob smacked to say the least.

They told me that the reason they seperated was that the tyres had gone past their use by date, being 5 years from manufacture. They said that the molecules inside the tyre start seperating after 5 years and that the tyres should have been replaced because of their age. This to me sounds too much like a cop out.

How many people are aware of this? How many people replace their tyres because they have reached their use by date and not because the remaining tread is below the legal requirements?

I feel like I need to take this further with these guys but thought I would get some thoughts from the people that know best (thats you guys) before I proceed.
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