How Old are your New Tires?

Great article, Jan. Thank you so much for this useful tip. It is a little dark outside and the cyotes, mountain lions and a bear or two discourage me from looking at this exact moment. Perhaps in the morning.

Lions, coyotes and bears?? Oh, my!

great tire info! I am glad the only wild creature I have to worry about out there is our neighbors cats.

Now that we have a paper route, I have a feeling even though my tires are pretty new, we'll be needing new tires more frequently. Thanks!

wow, that's really important information. Thanks for sharing with us. Peace. I'm just about to buy new tires for my vehicle and I will be sure to check those numbers.

Wish I could have given you a 20. This sort of info is priceless!

Great info. I was upset when I bought my Prius 3 years ago, so far every year I had to buy NEW tires. Tires should not wear out in a year!!(15,000 miles). Thanks so much for this info.

Great Information Thanks Jan.

This is extremely important information to know. Fortunately for me my tires are such an odd size they are hard to find as it is so I doubt they are sitting on the shelves too long. I will be looking at this though.

Thanks for the info.

Jan,
Thanks for the great tip and some really useful information!

Interesting. I'm gonna check mine. thanks.

Thanks for the warning Jan.

That's a really important tip! Thanks, Jan ... nothing like having the "born on" dates on everything...

I saw this story on the news, and it is scary to see what can happen when these "new" tires go bad! Great article.

did not know this - thanks

What frightens me is that my dad recently bought tires and one split after only 3 months - maybe 500 hundred miles max. He and my mother could have been killed.
It is really important to check the tire codes.

thanks for the article!

Good info. Thanks.

This is a great article Jan. I had heard about this but did not know how to find the year on the tires. Thanks.

Great information!

Wow will pass this on to my husband he is always the one buying tires and we may need to buy a set for winter.

Interesting article

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interesting. we just bought 4 tires recently. Tire Barn didn't know how to put them on, they made a lug nut look like hamburger and blamed it on Meineke service and we went back to Meineke and told us that many Tire Barns in our area are messing up people's vehicles and we had 3 tires on for a long time because they couldn't get the last tire on. We had paid them to put 4 tires on and for a long time, they refused and told us, we'd have to get "that fixed by Meineke" but after many persistence and not giving up, we kept complaining and telling them we were going to report them to the BBB. Finally, they tell us to bring our vehicle in and they will "see what they can do" so we took our vehicle in, waiting with our baby in her car seat and they put the last tire on, but I know, I wanted something for their messup and our loss time or not having a 4th tire on, a messed up lug nut which can make a vehicle VERY unsafe with a child (infant) in the car to drive. So, I kept complaining, but they told us they took care of it and got the tire on, but after we left, we went to my mom's house (keep in mind, this was a 3 month period of no tire on that we paid service for, included with tire price) and it was frustrating, we went through numerous people and nothing done. AFTER so long, they did fix the problem (but we will NEVER do service there again, they're unsafe and don't know what they're doing to mess up our tire, banging tools on it and everything else) and Meineke is more expensive, but from now on, our service will be with Meineke. Anyway.... they put a tire, without telling us in our back of our jeep - where the grocery area is, so when we go to open the hutch at my mother's house, we look at mom and say "omg, without telling us, they put a tire in, admitting they did wrong, but didn't want to say they did wrong all along." Now I still find them to be cowards to "blame another company" and not admit in the beginning they messed up.

It wouldn't surprise me if our tires are outdated and I will be checking them and reporting them if they are and going back once again ...