Good video on tires that may have been sitting on store shelves for a long time.
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4826897

Thanks to Drew for the video.

 

wow thats not good at all

 

Kind of scary really. I have never worked an accident where I work were a tire failed but next time I do thats something I'll have to check out if it happens.

 

went out and checked mine

runner-3 years old
taco-4 years old

thanks for the info

 

Last years revision of the NFPA says no tires older than 7 years on a fire response vehicle. I have been pulling tires off fire trucks that have great tread, but are old.

 

I am going to check my tires today.
I bought them July of last year.

 

This is the reason why we always strongly recommend replacement on any tire over 7 years old, and refuse to even work on any tire over 10 years old. People don't understand how much time can affect the reliability and safety of a tire.

 

I agree with the time thing as many people on here tout "I got 80k out of xxxx brand of tire,which is fine if you put those miles on in a short period of time but with my Runner it sees only about 8-9k a year and with some brands they'd be 9 years old before they were worn out and I'm not comfortable with tires bing on my truck longer than 5 years.

 

Good to know the code, I will check all tires from now one, Thank god the tsl`s were on production back order, nice and fresh when I got them.

 

Well, ran right out and checked mine. Just bought some Firestone's last week, and was interested to find out if they were the "new" tires I paid for. The Firestone's don't have that code. The other tires do, as well as the ones on my Sienna.

The Firestone's code ends in "38A", anyone know what that means?

 

It has to have the code.
The DOT number is on both sides of the tire, but the date code is only on one side of the tires we have.

 

a lot of tire places sell old tires, even if they know theyre dangerous. in vegas, the shop i worked at, we sold a set of tires that were 6 years old. i pointed this out, and the manager was like, 'keep it down! we have to sell these, dont tell them how old they are!'. ALWAYS CHECK THE DOT NUMBER!

 

So my 15 y/o tires are no good???

 

Geeze. My buddy had a set of 4 polyglas tires from the 1960's (40 years old at the time) on his 65 Ford Galaxie and we would do all kinds of crazy things in them like speeding at 120 MPH, taking corners ridiculously fast, ect. Never had a problem. I did the same with 18 year old tires in my old car.

Either they don't make them like they used to, or we just got lucky.

 

3405

 

They dont make them like they used to unless you pay for a really good tire.

I do wonder, does it depend on cheapie tires like no name or offbrand tires will have this worse or could it be top of the line tires like the BFG AT KO?

Honestly I always followed the following policy regarding tires that my poppop once said:

Replace them every 3-4 years period, even if you dont have that many miles and good tread on them. I do this period, bout time for my truck. I also save the best tire and swap it onto the spare rim. This way, you dont have an issue later as that tire will always be rotated in about 6-7 years which is the end of its life.

 

Holy crap! My motorcycle tire was made in early '02!!!!!!!

 

Discount Tire?

 

Wow, good watch. Just checked mine. 1204, I'm good.

 

I had two that are 02 and two that are 03. I was about to call this my last year for these anyway, pretty sure I'll get new ones after this year.