Tire mfg dates
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From: Millbrook Alabama
Tire mfg dates
A while back I posted that when buying new tires that you should have the dealer check the DOT manufacture date(stamped on every tire).
Well, as some of you know I had noticed some dry rotting of my tires back in the cooler season(we don't have what is considered a real winter in lower Alabama), now these tires had only been on my truck for 10 months, and 30K, way too early to see cracking.
The local tire dealer I use is a great guy and always helpful, so last week before the big camping trip I stopped in and had him inspect my tires. I told him I was not comfortable towing 12K on these tires and he agreed. he crawled up under my truck and wrote down the DOT date code and informed me that the tires were 3 years old at the date of install. To be fair, he does not stock large size tires and orders mine whenever I need them from his distributor, so I know they had not sat on his shelf that long.
Long story short, he called distributor and they gave me a 70% credit of what I had spent last year and he installed a new set of tires. I had been running the Buckshot Mudders, and had gotten great service out of the last two sets but my tire guy suggested I try the Hankook DynaPro MT this go around and I must say I am very happy with the manners and low road noise of this new tire.
Moral of story: when buying new tires have your dealer check the date before they are mounted and don't accept anything with more than a few months date from manufacter.
Well, as some of you know I had noticed some dry rotting of my tires back in the cooler season(we don't have what is considered a real winter in lower Alabama), now these tires had only been on my truck for 10 months, and 30K, way too early to see cracking.
The local tire dealer I use is a great guy and always helpful, so last week before the big camping trip I stopped in and had him inspect my tires. I told him I was not comfortable towing 12K on these tires and he agreed. he crawled up under my truck and wrote down the DOT date code and informed me that the tires were 3 years old at the date of install. To be fair, he does not stock large size tires and orders mine whenever I need them from his distributor, so I know they had not sat on his shelf that long.
Long story short, he called distributor and they gave me a 70% credit of what I had spent last year and he installed a new set of tires. I had been running the Buckshot Mudders, and had gotten great service out of the last two sets but my tire guy suggested I try the Hankook DynaPro MT this go around and I must say I am very happy with the manners and low road noise of this new tire.
Moral of story: when buying new tires have your dealer check the date before they are mounted and don't accept anything with more than a few months date from manufacter.
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I used to work in new tire development at a tire plant and if i remember right no tire was supposed to be sold after 2 years. Also you don't have to take it to a tire shop to check the manufacture date if you look at the serial side of the tire (the black sidewall side if it is a white sidewall) there is a DOT molded in then 4 more letters/numbers. The first two are the tire factory code and the third is a R or a V, this should be a V for all of our trucks. The forth one and the next group of 4 letters/numbers is the manufacturers tire identification code. After that there should be a group of 4 numbers. This is the cure week of the tire. For example, 0107 would be the first week of 2007. As far as I know the date code would be the same for all manufacturers
