Originally Posted by tikkanut
Originally Posted by JeffA
Originally Posted by simonkenton7
Here is an informative article from edmunds.com


Do Car Tires Have a Shelf Life?
Ronald Montoya
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October 24th, 2018

Storage: This applies to spare tires and tires that are sitting in a garage or shop. A tire that has not been mounted and is just sitting in a tire shop or your garage will age more slowly than one that has been put into service on a car. But it ages nonetheless.


Maybe new tires should come with a manufacture date embedded in them.

I wonder just how old some of the new tires I have purchased may have been.....




https://www.tires-easy.com/blog/tire-dot-date-code/



It's always nice to learn, thanks...

To find your tires age you need to find the DOT Date Code on the tire. Find the raised DOT letters and numbers. Look for 4 numbers together, often enclosed in a raised oval. The first two numbers are the week the tire was manufactured, for instance in the example below, 35 stands for week 35. The second two numbers are the year the tire was manufactured. In the image below we see the 07, indicating the tire was build in 2007. This particular tire was made the 35th week of 2007.



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