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Replying to: 55396 (Sep 24, 2008 7:12 pm) Roland |
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Replying to: rpfingsten (Sep 24, 2008 10:47 pm) |
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Replying to: rpfingsten (Sep 04, 2008 1:39 am) |
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Replying to: fin (Sep 25, 2008 6:13 am) Roland
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Replying to: rpfingsten (Oct 01, 2008 3:52 am) |
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Replying to: fin (Sep 25, 2008 6:13 am) With regards to the tires, I noticed that the spare is a full size tire and the manual recommends doing a three tire rotation on the right side and a two tire rotation on the left side. I haven't had a real spare for decades. Is this what you do, or do you "save" the spare and just rotate the 4 on the car. If you involve all 5 tires in rotation, it seems that they would wear at different rates leaing to unbalanced replacement?
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Replying to: drengka (Oct 01, 2008 7:37 pm) |
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I just watched a scary video on ABC TV website about tire dealers (like Sears and Costco) selling what appears to be brand new tires but in fact were as much as 4 years old in some cases. ABC mentioned that the safe limits for a tire is 6 years and in England that is the law of the land. Furthermore, they said it is very difficult to tell how how old a tire is but if you look closely on the inside wall of the tire you might be able to decode the manufacturing date. For example, there is a lengthy DOT alpha-numeric number on the tire with the last 4 digits being the manufacturing date. Thus, the number 4402 means that the tire was manufactured in the 44th week of 2002. Similarly, the number 399 would be interpreted as week 3 of 1999. Does anyone know if there is any truth to this or just sensationalism or over zealous TV reporting?
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Replying to: bwia (Oct 04, 2008 12:50 pm) NO reputable tire dealer will sell a new tire 6 years old. The risk of failure and lawsuits would be too great. Where would you even find a new tire 6 years old? Even 4 years is much too old to be placed in new service. My suggestion: Look for tires less than 1 year old when installed. Even if you drive on them for several more years they should last till the tread is worn down or they become a victim of some road hazard. And the best of tires will begin to fail in time, such as the OE Michelin MXV4's on my wife's Honda. At 5 years (24k miles) they had plenty of tread but also had age cracks. Replaced 'em... There are plenty of new tires out there in all brands... choose wisely, and choose recently made. 
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Replying to: fin (Oct 04, 2008 6:08 pm) So fin, the spare tire in the trunk could be a false sense of security. Since most people don't replace the spare when they do a tire change over that spare could be sitting in the trunk for over a decade in most cases. Hmm, now might be the time to sell that spare on eBay after all. |
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