13-04-20, 09:29 AM
(13-04-20, 01:29 AM)Grahamm link Wrote: [quote author=red98 link=topic=26065.msg312336#msg312336 date=1586680758]
tyre is just over 7 years old...how long should they last ?...
Look on the side of the tyre for the DOT code. It's two numbers, giving the week and year it was made, so, for instance, 1719 would be week 17 of 2019
It's not recommended to use tyres that are more than 5 years old as, even if they're not used, the rubber will harden and be more prone to failure.
A friend found this out when he bought a "new" tyre for his car out in Qatar, then it abruptly and catastrophically failed whilst he was doing about 60mph. Fortunately they were in a desert section, so there was plenty of run off!
It turned out, having looked at the DOT code, the tyre was something like 10 years old...
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Qatar, where they have 3 inches of rain a YEAR and constant crazy heat conditions is probably not the greatest place to judge tyre life to be fair.
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