HOW-TO: read tire manufacture date code

[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

[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?

[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....

[Louie B.]

good thing to check. You replacing all of them now?

[joe_bfstplk]

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

[Louie B.]

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)