Have you ever looked at how old your new tyres are?

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There was an article written about Law suits, and consumer concerns about older tyres. Not too sure weather I seen it on this site or not, but never mind, as the mail concern was that company's were selling almosr out of date tyres, to people and they were failing, after being on the vehicles a while..

A warning was given out not to purchase tyres any older than 2 years, as they will deteriorate rapidly after that specified age.

Cheers Bucky

Ex Govt fleet vehicles are always sold with brand new tyres, the guys preparing the cars for sale never have to buy tyres for their personal vehicles.

Back when I was working, I controlled a small fleet of govt vehicles for the area where I worked.
I had to replace all tyres on one govt 4x4 because of the mileage the vehicle had been driven, they were illegal, (they came out of my area budget and I signed for them) just before it went back into the lease company's control prior to sale.
My budget was debited with another new set of tyres for the same vehicle.
This was fairly common.

Someone got a brand new set of 245.75.16 Bridgestones out of it.

Disco.

Thanks Jim

Regards

Kim

Back in the 70's when we used to run wintertread recaps on the rally cars
( high tech in those days) we used to buy up and store the tyres for about 12 months to let the rubber harden up so they wore better.Older ones were less likely to throw the cap as well.
once fitted they would be worn out in a couple of events competition use anyway so really never more than 18 months old.
cheers
Howard

Hey Howard,
Did you do any of the 'Castrols' down there (orriginally the 'Don Capasco')..or Southern Cross in Port Maquarie..or the Alpine out of Bright ??
Even knocked off Greg Carr a few times.
My swan-song was the Repco (Around Australia) in August 79.

did the don capasco and all castrols but only as an official or a service crew.
was in LCCC at same time as Greg.
my only claim to fame was ACT championship in 78.
gave up in 84 after being on the organising committee af an event which saw a fatality.Wasnt happy with level of support from CAMS so walked away from sport.
regards
Howard

Hi Muntoo

Got new set of BFG AT yesterday and they are dated 10 /10 , this makes them to fresh for me. Have another set on the car now which are 05/ 01 and while they are harder they still haven't gone anywhere near as hard as some 4 year old coopers I have, so like most things its a matter of degree, putting them away for years is a bit excessive , however if actually in the shed not exposed to sunlight(UV) then it probably wouldn't hurt much.


Got new ones specifically for Canning trip in a few weeks so I will be cooking mine in the sun a little , this won't do much but may make the edges a little harder for the 4500km drive to start of Canning.

Hi,

I read this question with interest as I have just fitted a set of four A/T BFG 265/70/16LT to my Nissan

I have had a look at the tyres tonight and cannot see any imprinted four numbers.

Would someone be kind enough to advise me where these numbers are situated on my tyres so that I can check them out.

Thanks in advance

KEv

hi kev
look at your bfg tyre between the d in the word- bfgoodrich-and the bead there is 2 numbers that are encircled which denotes the week that they were made followed by the 2 numbers which represent the year

on mine i have 30 07/ 31 07 / 33 07 and 37 07 which means my 4 tyres come out the factory over a 7 week period but they were fitted all on the same day in 2008 so they were already 10 months old when i bought them and like mentioned before by someone previous in this thread are made in USA

but interestingly when i looked for a date on my vw golf tryes i cannot find one anywhere they are yokohama's s760's - made in the phillipines -the only numbers on them dont make any sense at all in repect to a date format ???
they only have S760 imo this here does not relate to a date eg A8997-4 and i bought them in dec 06 so ????????
but on the other hand

my camper trailer tyres - cheng shin- trailermaxx 145x10 radial have 18 04 on them- made in taiwan- the trailer was made in /04 so that makes sense but have spent most of there life in the shed

so apparently not all tyres have a clear date format or its camouflaged under some other coding anyway so be it and hope you can find the date on your bfg's now
cheers