Were the new tires you bought really new?

[Muadib]

If you really don't know, you need to watch this.

 

[l0cke]

Rubber companies make no sense. Wouldn't they make more money if tires had to be replaced more often?

 

[Jeff7181]

Wow... the guy makes a big deal out of the fact that a tire manufactured years ago is being sold as new. Am I the only one NOT shocked that this happens? When I buy a brand new tire, I expect it has never been used before... not that it was made yesterday.

Obviously a tire doesn't need to be installed and used on a car to dry rot... maybe they'll start sealing them in plastic to extend the life so unused tires don't end up in land fills?

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

What a load of shit.

A bunch of fear mongering scare tactics to work people up into having the .gov protect them.

It may be an issue, but the blow it so out of proportion that it's useless to take anything from it.

 

[nycxandy]

Very informative. :thumbsup:

 

[StageLeft]

I get them from tirerack. They seem soft when I squish them in my fingers (scientific test).

 

[funboy6942]

I laughed because the tire bits on the highway, and the huge chunk of tire on the highway they showed is from a semi. The lady pulled over was in a RV, using a semi tire, where most semi truck tires are re-treads using very old shels of a tire, and putting new tread on them, and THATS what separates, and see chunks of. If a tire should come apart its due to poor production or flaw of that tire when made, not due to its age. Shit new tires come apart as well, what a load of scare tactic shit to get people worked up thinking they need to have the feds jump in and mandate a 6 year tire law to "protect" us, when I would bet anything the tire industry is in bed with the feds, though they try as show they are not, they are on "your" side, because if a law like that should pass, they will make bank, guaranteed money, every year after the first 6 years pass, for then EVERYONE will have to buy a new tire no matter what.

Its a ll another scare tactic to get people all worked up, freaked out, and have mother protect us because we cannot think for ourselves anymore.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Good article. Hope more people learn about this issue.

 

[aphex]

Its a ll another scare tactic to get people all worked up, freaked out, and have mother protect us because we cannot think for ourselves anymore.

Thinking for yourself is one thing, but having no idea how to even check the date on your tires is another (which I believe most people don't).

I think you also misunderstood the report if my understanding was correct. They weren't trying to make it illegal to drive with 6+ year old tires, just trying to make it illegal to sell them after 6 years. Not sure why you would be against this?

 

[alkemyst]

this is true...tire rack usually will blow out non-fresh tires. Almost all you should be able to get 2-3 years of life out of though.

Still one should do their own tire inspections with at least each oil change.

 

[aphex]

Well i just checked my General Exclaim from Tire Rack, bought em last month. They were made in the 49th week of 07

 

[MBrown]

My job is changing tires (college job) and month ago a woman came in the store and wanted to buy tires. We usually have the cheapest price because we include the installation and road hazard in the price of tires. I told here the selection of tires and the prices for her vehicle. Then she asked me how old they were. The first thing that came to mind was that I was about to have an annoying costumer. She said that she had just came from tire warehouse and they told her about the problem with old tires and the video about old tires (probably this one). At the time I had never heard of any problems with old tires. I work at a rather large company and nobody has told me about it. I have been to Michelin training seminars (we sell Michelin brand tires including BFGoodrich and Uniroyal because Michelin owns those two companies), and read training books and have never heard of this. She said that tire warehouse said that where I work at (BJ's) the reason why our tires are so cheap is because we sell people old tires which is just not true. My location gets a shipment of tires every Tuesday. And the place that told her this is the most Mickey Mouse looking place so if anything they had old tires. The tires I sold and installed on her car were made in 07. We have a few tires older than 3 years old because they were recalled tires they we sent back but maybe forgot to send back one or too of them. And for those few old tires, there are only one of them per so we don't sell them anyway. And like the video said, the DOT was never meant for the consumer. The tire companies mostly use them to keep track of the tires so that they can notify the costumer of a recall. Where I work we fill out DOT cards and give them to the costumer to mail it out to the tire company so that the tire company can let them know of any recall. A place like where I work, BJ, our tires are pretty much always new because we don't have as big of an inventory than a larger place like Sears so our tire stock gets replaced quicker. You could probably say the same thing about Sam's or Costco...OK maybe not Sam's.

 

[alkemyst]

unfortunately a lug wrench dude probably doesn't know the major details of any company they work for.

Specialty tires and quick sellers are usually new new....it's the cheaper tires and slow movers one has to worry about. There is nothing fatal about a 2 year old tire providing it was stored properly...however, if one is looking to get 60k+ miles on it, they may end up age limited rather than mileage.

 

[mooseracing]

Its a ll another scare tactic to get people all worked up, freaked out, and have mother protect us because we cannot think for ourselves anymore.

x2....ignorance isn't an excuse if you break a law, but it seems this country is trying to baby the ignorance.

Originally posted by: aphex
Thinking for yourself is one thing, but having no idea how to even check the date on your tires is another (which I believe most people don't).

I think you also misunderstood the report if my understanding was correct. They weren't trying to make it illegal to drive with 6+ year old tires, just trying to make it illegal to sell them after 6 years. Not sure why you would be against this?

The tires have the tits on them and no visible dry rotting cracks, I would run them. I could care less about the date they were manufactured.

It doesn't matter how old the tire is if it hasn't been in the sunlight. I have a set of tires that are still squishy that are about 10 years old. They still have the tits, freshly grooved for a soft track. But there is nothing wrong with them as they have been in the rafters covered up.

 

[JasonSix78]

Thanks for posting, I never even knew tires had a manufacturing date on them.

 

[StageLeft]

I just checked some and mine all appear to be relatively new when I bought them.

The undercover vids here were a bit misleading. There seems to be no real data or consensus either way. They certainly didnt' defend the use of the 6 year. I imagine it's based on something, but what?

 

[rh71]

I didn't read anything or watch the video but if the last two digits of the DOT code are the year... what does XX stand for? As in B9XX. Never saw anything else on the tire resembling 05,06,07,08, etc. for years.

 

[Apex]

Much bigger issue with DOT-R tires than DOT.