Check your tyres????

will check mine tomorra to see if they have this date stamp on them.

Hi Redbakk,
thanks for bringing this up. I am going to check my tyres now as I am intrigued. I asked about tyre dating at a local tyre shop early this year and was told it didn't exist. Now I know a lot better.
Thanks
Nev

This certainly makes you think, doesn't it ? I wonder if the situation here is the same ?

Never heard of it before and I've worked in the industry. I'll go and check mine now though.

This story was on Current Affair or 60 Minutes here several months ago. Almost identical details. The date stamp on the tyres was pointed out to a group of us on a tyre factory tour in the late 90's.

Is it a proper date stamped on them or a set of numbers in some sort of code?
Cheers Dave...

Just checked mine, 1707 so presume that means made in the 17th week of 07 I put them on new last year. Very very interesting video. Regards Steve M

I can't load that page because our IT Nazis at work have blocked the site.
I'm guessing that you are referring to the date of manufacture of the tyre, this came up when i bought 4 new tyres this year. I told the fitter that i wanted to start rotating the spare, which i hadn't done this time, thinking it was a good idea to have a pristine tyre ready for service as needed.

He lifted the Exploroz Cover and looked at the date stamp and said no way. It's a 2003 tyre and out of manufacturer's warranty he would be worried about using it as an emergency spare let alone start putting it into active duty.

So i have a $300 tyre sitting on my rear door which may or may not be able to get me out of trouble. It has never touched the ground since being fitted but it seems its past its use-by date.

That's so interesting, Thanks for posting it Redbakk.
The date on mine is 4707 so I'm happy with that, however I have another set of road tyres that I bought brand new in about April (from a place I dont usually get tyres from) and the number is 1201 so Im assuming the were made in 2001. Not impressed. Still look perfect. Do I dump them or risk using them??

Thanks for that Redbakk

Gr8 article, and I am about to buy some tyres for the 4B

Cheers Mate
Bucky