HOW-TO: read tire manufacture date code
Posted:
Tue Feb 02, 2010 8:09 pmby joe_bfstplk
It's a 4-digit code found in an oval stamp at the end of the string of codes starting with "DOT" on the tire's sidewall.
* The first two digits are the week number.
* The remaining two digits are the last two digits of the year.
So:
49th week of '04. A tire that's a bit more than 5 yrs old.
HTH!
C ya,
Dutch
Posted:
Tue Feb 02, 2010 9:41 pmby danjmcs
Yeah, I posted a story about places selling old dated tires that ABC News ran back in 2008. Definitely not good, and something to check on any used car you buy or "new" tires you buy at a shop.
http://www.dynamicminicollective.org/fo ... php?t=4656
These aren't the new tires you just got are they?
Posted:
Tue Feb 02, 2010 11:43 pmby joe_bfstplk
That's a picture of the tire that could've killed me or someone else Sunday.
I was lucky that the car behaved admirably when the tire lost air and started self-destructing on a straightaway, just after coming off the ramp from 101 south to 202 east (near Mesa Riverview), and I was doubly lucky it didn't do this to me a week ago Saturday, on the way to or from Tortilla Flats, due to the sheer number of cliffs where one could do a Wile E. Coyote (Yipes!) out there after a blowout....
Posted:
Wed Feb 03, 2010 1:00 amby Louie B.
good thing to check. You replacing all of them now?
Posted:
Wed Feb 03, 2010 3:21 amby joe_bfstplk
Louie B. wrote:good thing to check. You replacing all of them now?
Already did.
Yokohama S-Drives, 205/50 R16s....
So far me likey!
C ya,
Dutch
Posted:
Wed Feb 03, 2010 4:56 amby Louie B.
joe_bfstplk wrote:Louie B. wrote:good thing to check. You replacing all of them now?
Already did.
Yokohama S-Drives, 205/50 R16s....
So far me likey!
C ya,
Dutch
Very cool! several of us run those (myself included)