Got New Tires?.. Think again!

[Rhode Island Red]

Something to think about

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4826897

[wolfdogs]

I have to laugh....

this has been going on for so many years its unreal... just recently the public media has picked up on it.

age of tires has been a topic of discussion at NHTSA, TACOM, and our tire program at meeting after meeting, no one, not even industry ....can come up with a "expiration date"...LOL

[Rhode Island Red]

In Britain the report said they use 6 years as a cut off. How come their industry went along with that when our tire industry cannot? Are they just using the obfuscation about when to give an expiration date as an excuse to continue selling "as is" as a money making maneuver? (greedy bastids)

[Black97]

It's all about the mighty buck. On top of it you have a booming second time around tire industry.

[Trash man]

we used 4 years as a cut off, and we got a new order of tires in and they were more then a year old, we sent them back

[msfyter]

Guess the dealers need to armorall all thier stock?

[Jeff_in_Atl]

So I went out and looked at my wife's car this morning to check her date codes. I only found 1 of the 4 on the outside of the car. So I got to looking and the last time she went and had her tires rebalanced they put 2 of the 4 tires back on on the wrong side of the car. They are unidirectional tires. This is the second time at the same place they have done that. That is the last straw for them. The odd thing is the 4th tire which is rotating the correct direction did not have a date code on it. I can't find anything on the tire about it being a left side or right side tire but at least it is going the right direction.

[Trash man]

jeff becarefull bout what way the tread is going, the Fuzion HRis have a in and out but a tread like a directional and when u put them on the car, two of the tires go in the oppisite direction, never did understand that

[Black97]

The wife was telling me about a show that was on TV. They talked about the age of the tires, especially the spare one.

That's something you don't really think about. I'm sure it's ok for emergency for a couple of miles. It always cracks me up when you see somebody on the interstate driving at or over the speed limit with one of those emergency spares "donuts" for a long time.

You have to ask yourself, do I feel lucky today?

[Jeff_in_Atl]

jeff becarefull bout what way the tread is going, the Fuzion HRis have a in and out but a tread like a directional and when u put them on the car, two of the tires go in the oppisite direction, never did understand that

They have arrows on them too. They are backwards.

[wolfdogs]

They have arrows on them too. They are backwards.

and it only relates to the tread patterns ability to shed water correctly and provide more stability and quicker response on directional changes. in fact, if you reverse them on the rear, you enhance traction on take off.