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.

07-23-2008, 05:14 PM	#1 (permalink)
oscaryu1 Moderator Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Houston, Texas Age: 13 Posts: 10,352	ABC News - Aged Tires - Road Hazard 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! __________________ Core 2 Duo E2140 1.6GHz @ 3.04GHz GA-P31-DS3L pqi Turbo CL4 DDR2-800 2GB Sapphire HD3850 256MB Sony Writemaster DVD Burner EIDE Seagate Barracuda 80GB 7200.9 8MB SATII

07-23-2008, 07:54 PM	#2 (permalink)
TFT Diamond Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Yorkshire, UK Posts: 2,299	"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 250GB Memory: 2GB

07-23-2008, 09:53 PM	#3 (permalink)
/\E Silver Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Plano, TX Posts: 195	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. __________________ New computer: EVGA 780i SLI \| Antec Quattro 1000W Intel Q9450 \| Zalman 9700 2x EVGA 9800GX2 \| 8GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800Mhz 2x Seagate Bara 500GB RAID0(Vista x64) \| 1x Seagate Bara 500GB(XP x64) Antec P180 24" iMac \| Dell Inspiron 1520
$/\E is offline$

Thread Tools
Show Printable Version Email this Page
Display Modes
Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode