Dangerous Tyres?

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Mon Dec 01, 08 3:02 pm

How old are your tyres?

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

AllKiller · Post by **AllKiller** » Mon Dec 01, 08 3:13 pm

Gonna check...very interesting Dave , good post

andyrob · Post by **andyrob** » Mon Dec 01, 08 3:20 pm

interesting, never new that

AllKiller · Post by **AllKiller** » Mon Dec 01, 08 3:25 pm

My old daily has 2x 97's a 1x 05 and a 94

how do you tell 80 or 90 year ??

028 is that 88 or 98

same with the ones above is it 97 or 87 only just bought this car ??

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Mon Dec 01, 08 3:57 pm

AllKiller wrote:My old daily has 2x 97's a 1x 05 and a 94

how do you tell 80 or 90 year ??

028 is that 88 or 98

same with the ones above is it 97 or 87 only just bought this car ??

Well in most cases I think the age/mileage of the car would get you in the ballpark.

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Mon Dec 01, 08 3:58 pm

I know that there was a date

But didn't know where it was or how to decode it

Thank for that one real good post

mine are all 2008 on my daily and 2007 on the CHARGER

Cheers DUDE

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Mon Dec 01, 08 4:01 pm

It would be better if they just put a plain normal date on there though wouldn't it? But if they did we would all know how old the tyres are. So it would have to be a legal requirement to do so. Which means someone has to raise a Bill in Parliament.

Maybe a word with a local MP would be wise?

AllKiller · Post by **AllKiller** » Mon Dec 01, 08 4:19 pm

Dave wrote:
AllKiller wrote:My old daily has 2x 97's a 1x 05 and a 94

how do you tell 80 or 90 year ??

028 is that 88 or 98

same with the ones above is it 97 or 87 only just bought this car ??
Well in most cases I think the age/mileage of the car would get you in the ballpark.

I know what your saying Dave, but its a 1990 Honda 16i16
with 49,000 from new.
Those tyres could be,... if that video is anything to go by, 88 and 84 if supplied to the factory and the age would be less important
scary

Put two new fronts on the missus car about 4 weeks ago, one has a date 08 the other has not anywhere ....figure that out

Prothed · Post by **Prothed** » Mon Dec 01, 08 8:53 pm

More than you ever wanted to know about tyres...
http://www.carbibles.com/tyre_bible.html

Looks like a good site.

AllKiller · Post by **AllKiller** » Mon Dec 01, 08 9:27 pm

I think the date code is not completely accurate as in some tyre just do not have it....i have been checking all my cars and some reletively new tyres do not have DOT date marks...and my 90's tyres do not have the triangle symbol after them....so are they 80's i doubt it but just needs simplifying.

db · Post by db » Tue Dec 02, 08 9:07 am

Hmm got me worried now....
Will the Belve tyres expire before i get it on the road...

I've had the Truk 8 years, it still has 2 of the tyres it came with and they looked pretty old 8 years ago

Does this apply to bike tyres- now THATS a scary thought!!

I think i'll go check those numbers later, thanks Dave.

AllKiller · Post by **AllKiller** » Tue Dec 02, 08 9:42 am

I think the fronts are most important.....not sure about the skinny fronts on my Cuda now, i know ive had them on about 8 years ....got me worried now as well, as they are obviously past 6 years and definately carrying more weight than designed for

andyrob · Post by **andyrob** » Tue Dec 02, 08 10:04 am

lets see who's got the oldest most dangerous tyres on our mopars, (that we still use)

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Tue Dec 02, 08 10:32 am

I am not even going to look.

What you can't see can't hurt you.

latil · Post by **latil** » Tue Dec 02, 08 10:43 am

If I was in the business of making tyres,I would be very keen to tell people that tyres are dangerous after 6 years. I'd sell more new tyres.

It might apply if the cords in tyres were still cotton/canvas that rots,and those tyres were crossply.
Tyres stored correctly,right temperature,in the dark etc do not deteriorate to the extent that they are dangerous to use.
There are plenty of vintage commercials out on the roads with tyres anything up to 60 years old. Think of 10-15 tons at 40 mph on hot sunny days going to vintage shows.