ABC News - Aged Tires

**oscaryu1** · 07-23-2008, 05:14 PM

Could save someone's life:

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

And to think the Previa's fronts are so old they don't have the numbers

And it still has the original spare

Guess I'll be gone for today!

TFT · 07-23-2008, 07:54 PM

"Rushes out to look at mine"
I bought 4 new ones this week £380 or 760$ as my first roadworthy test (MOT) is next week and even mine are marked 2706. This means the 27th week of 2006, so my new ones are already 2 years old

/\E · 07-23-2008, 09:53 PM

I've been lucky, the place I go to always has to order tires from their distributor and their fairly new... Mine are 22nd week of 2007...

Tire dry rot, I think that's what it's popularly known as, has been around since the invention of the tire. Most of the time, these problems are easy to spot by looking at a tire's sidewall. But I thought a tread coming off only happened to large trucks with retreaded tires. On a new tire it seems like the tread should be better integrated so that it cannot come off.

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TFT VIP Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Yorkshire, UK Posts: 3,580	"Rushes out to look at mine" I bought 4 new ones this week £380 or 760$ as my first roadworthy test (MOT) is next week and even mine are marked 2706. This means the 27th week of 2006, so my new ones are already 2 years old __________________ Operator: Dave Operating System: XP Professional SP2 Processor: Intel E6750 Core Duo@3.20GHz Graphics: Nvidia 8500GT C: Drive 500GB D: Drive 200GB Memory: 2GB Monitor: 22" Widescreen

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/\E Platinum Member $/\E's Avatar$ Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: /root/ae Age: 18 Posts: 622	I've been lucky, the place I go to always has to order tires from their distributor and their fairly new... Mine are 22nd week of 2007... Tire dry rot, I think that's what it's popularly known as, has been around since the invention of the tire. Most of the time, these problems are easy to spot by looking at a tire's sidewall. But I thought a tread coming off only happened to large trucks with retreaded tires. On a new tire it seems like the tread should be better integrated so that it cannot come off. __________________ 24" iMac \| Dell Inspiron 1520
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