Looking at the Tire manufacturing date, what is the cut off period that you will not consider buying the set of NEW tires :-
1. > 6 mths
2. > 9 mths
3. > 12 mths
4. > 15 mths
Here are some articles which might help. It seems that within the 15 months range tires are pretty decent to be used. As long as the tires are not older than 10 yrs old
The British Rubber Manufacturers Association in 2001 issued a recommendation that "unused tyres should not be put into service if they are over 6 years old and that all tyres should be replaced after 10 years from the date of their manufacture."
15 months is really pretty decent since they usually have shelf life of about 3 years but proper storage is more critial than looking at the manufacture date alone.
Storing in a dark cool place is more desire then placing on the open shelf like some tyre shop does, especially since tyre these days don come with wrapper anymore...
At the recent ADT I attended, Keith the chief instructor, mentioned that he won't buy tyres that are more than 2 yrs old coz the tyre compound wld have deteriorated. So the tyres may look gim gim goot goot but they won't last as long or handle as well as touted.
That may not be too true too.. Cos i deals with some tire manafacture/ and local distributor mention tires has a shelf life of 36 month to maintain tip top performace..
Currently shopping for a set of new tires and got a question for the tire gurus out there....
Is it ok to buy a set of brand new tires with week 20 year 06 manufacture date? That's slightly more than 1 year old from now. Is that considered too long in terms of shelf life?
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