Not sure if this has been bought to the forum's attention.

Spend a few minutes and watch the clip.... enlightening.

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4826897

 

Man that is one informative and scary video. I'm gonna check all my tires out in the morning.

 

Yes, it most certainly is!

I hope Rock or someone makes this thread a "sticky" so everyone views it.

 

hmm interesting...now everyone go look at their tires and post how old they are ill check tomorrow

 

Checked both my vehicles this morning and all were 06's. I bought them in 07 so they should be good. That would mean by the report that my tires were a little over a year old when I bought them new.

 

yep going to be checking my tires in about an hour when I get off! That is some scary and very informational stuff!

 

Two of my tires were made 38 week of 07 the third was made the 33 07 adn the fourth the 29 week of 07

 

two of my tires were made in the third week of 08, and the other two were made in the fourth week of 08.

 

My brother stopped by this evening and we checked his wifes car. The tires are about half wore but by the code they are 02's. So we took it out to the garage and let half the air outta 1 and guess what?? Dry rot cracks. Small but they are there.

 

1306 - on all 4 tires I bought as "new" from Discount Tire and were delivered on 6/11/08.

 

What do you do about buying tires online? I am getting ready to buy some Nitto TG's I'd hate to get some old rubber. Scary indeed!

 

Call before ordering and tell them you do NOT want tires shipped to you that were manufactured before date "X"

 

Also...

Most online order pages have a "comments" section just prior to the final checking out process. You can always reiterate through a posted reply - after calling them - of your concerns.

Print that page prior to submitting your order and get the persons name you spoke with so you have some ammo.... should the need arrise to return the tires due to the retailers failure to comply to your request.

Hope this helps.

 

just for sh*ts and giggles, i ordered my 35's through tire rack in March of this year not knowing of this. i still managed to get tires that were made within the third and fourth weeks of this year.

i would tell the online vendor that you will send them back if they were manufactured before the first week of 08, for example.

 

Front: 39th week of '01

Rear: 42nd week of '01

....open: "www.tirerack.com"