moandick
Free Member
I have always worked under the following credo:
As far as I am aware the way to tell the age of a tyre is by the date stamp on the tyre wall.
This should look something like...........
489 which equates to the 48th week of 1999
and this style should have stopped in 2000 to be replace by:
0305 which equates to the 3rd week of 2005.
Bearing in mind I have been advised that tyres should be changed every 5 years irrespective of condition -
it would seem that any tyre which does not have a '0' (zero) before the last digit should definitely be considered 'dodgy'
and any tyre which has a '0', '1' or '2' as the last but one digit should be considered for change pretty soon.
Can anybody (who really knows the subject) tell me if I'm right or wrong or tell me any better way, please?
As far as I am aware the way to tell the age of a tyre is by the date stamp on the tyre wall.
This should look something like...........
489 which equates to the 48th week of 1999
and this style should have stopped in 2000 to be replace by:
0305 which equates to the 3rd week of 2005.
Bearing in mind I have been advised that tyres should be changed every 5 years irrespective of condition -
it would seem that any tyre which does not have a '0' (zero) before the last digit should definitely be considered 'dodgy'
and any tyre which has a '0', '1' or '2' as the last but one digit should be considered for change pretty soon.
Can anybody (who really knows the subject) tell me if I'm right or wrong or tell me any better way, please?