Have you gone through your closets & drawers to send clothes to Goodwill and run across a pair of sweat pants that no longer hold their elasticity ? You pull on the waist & hear a ripping sound. The pants expand to a now permanent width. Now think of the largest rubber product you own … tires on your car. Four expensive ones.
We've all seen those pieces of tire on the road. The ragged pieces of peeled off rubber tire treads.
Americans are less informed than Europe that
tires have a shelf life.
The rubber ages and the tread can shred off causing an accident.
Aged tires are not brand new even if never used.
John Stossel introduces this video report of Brian Ross showing how to read the age label on tires. Six years is considered old for a tire. The numbers 414 show the tire was made in the 41st week of 1994. Fourteen years old is too old. A 3101 stamp shows a tire manufactured in 31st week of 2001. Still too old.
The shelf life of a tire is 6 years old. They have no expiration date. Tread depth won't matter on an old tire.
Until last year the code was on the inside of the tire.
Learn the code of tire age it may save your life or the life of someone you love.
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Seriously?! That's insane. Ok, now I'm wondering how old the tires were that when on my car when it was NEW.
Those tire treads on the side of the highway are called Gators and most of the time they are from the trucks that haul our products around the country. They fall off either because they were peeled a little while going over a curb or because they were too thin to stay on the tire. *my FIL is a truck driver
You do have a good point tho about the tires on your car. The rubber in the tires does get old and lose it's softness. Hard rubber wont help when going down the highway.
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