Identifying tyre age

Longtooth if you have any doughts of the safety get new ones it not worth risking your travells or worst still you and your families lives.

I am a great believer in asking the manufacturer. It does not matter if it is tyres or tooth paste, if I want to know something I will ring them. There should be a technical information number on the web site.

Brian

Bought in Feb 2000 means they're a minimum of 8 yrs old. No way they'd still be on my car...

longtooth using my contacts in the industry the following may be useful

How do I tell the age of a tyre?

All tyres are produced with a serial Tyre Identification Number (or serial TIN) that shows the date of manufacture of a tyre Figure The last three digits (for tyres made pre 2000) or four digits (for post 2000 tyres) of the serial TIN indicate the week and year that the tyre was made. For example, Figure 1 below shows a tyre made in the 37th week of 1995 and Figure 2 shows a tyre made in the 12th week of 2004. Also a tyre made in the 1990’s can be distinguished from a tyre made in the 1980’s due to a triangular indentation after the last number which is not present on 1980’s tyres.

As I cannot instert photos the numbers in the photo's look like this.

NAA 375.
Serial code for 37th week of 1995

DFK 1204

Serial code for 12th week of 2004

Based on their understanding a number of vehicle manufacturers are now advising against the use of tyres that are more than six years old due to the effects of ageing.

I trust that helps

Regards

RobA