how old are your tyres?

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Magicarcher

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 Warwickshire
Just thought I would do a tyre wear check and noticed some tiny crack on the surface of the tread, the sidewalls were fine. So I decided to look at the date stamps on the tyre sidewalls which were as follows:

NSF 2704
OSF 2704
NSR 1607
OSR 1107

Given my car was build November 2014, that seams to suggest the fronts are original tyres :o

Curious to know what other ages there are? Do I have the oldest tyres? NB I am not suggesting that is good, I have told many a person with good tread and heavily cracked sidewalls, they should change their tyres.
 
Smartbear said:
That doesn’t seem right? I read the fronts are week 27 year 04! :?
Rob
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Exactly manufactured in July 2014 fitted to a car built November 2014. More than possible they are original tyres Bridgestone Potenzas made in Japan on a car built in USA.
 
Mine are a year old, I had them put on.

Before that it was 1007 so still the originals. That means the rears somehow managed 25000 miles. Must have been one steady driver.
 
Magicarcher said:
Exacttly manufactured in July 2014 fitted to a car built November 2014. More than possible they are original tyres Bridgestone Potenzas made in Japan on a car built in USA.
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You do realise that Bridgestone tyres are not just manufactured in Japan. Same as Michelin tyres are not just manufactured in France.

I assume your reference to 2014 on the tyres/car is simply a typo on both - as they should both be 2004?

Also doesn't mean they're the original tyres, as an owner could easily have put 2004 tyres on in 2010, if they wanted to save a few pennies!
 
mmm-five said:
You do realise that Bridgestone tyres are not just manufactured in Japan. Same as Michelin tyres are not just manufactured in France.
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I do indead, but when the sidewall states made in Japan I expect Bridgestone to be telling the truth, the financial penalties of doing otherwise would not be good.

mmm-five said:
Also doesn't mean they're the original tyres, as an owner could easily have put 2004 tyres on in 2010, if they wanted to save a few pennies!
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A possibility, but if they were saving pennies would they change two tyres at the same time with the exact same dates? And where would they find them, if new they would have to be lying around in stock for 6 years, that is pretty incompetent warehouse stock rotation. If second hand would they really find two tyres with identical manufacturing dates and would they still have 4.5mm of tread they currently have? I am suspicious they wouldn't on both counts.
 
Manufactured and fitted 3 years ago.

Being replaced all round with Michelin in July as they're almost done.
 
I used a set of 104's which we're running original Bridgestone's for one winter. They'd been stored away in someones garage so were away from sunlight and stored correctly, just a little dusty. Seemed fine and didn't miss a beat even with spirited driving in 'poor weather' conditions. That being said I probably wouldn't do it over the same way given the choice.

Tyres a few years old okay. But well over a decade? Just not worth the potential risk. Especially if you see any signs of cracking or damage on a wheel so old. Let's be honest you're not going to be driving at tractor speeds!
 
I would definitely change them, the risk of running on tyres that old, would concern me, loads of tread left or not
 
My E30 has a Michelin MVX from 1989 in the boot. I might have taken to pursuit of originality too far :?
 
I get through about a set of rears per year. The front seem to last much longer. Only put 3 sets on in 7 years. Never checked how old they are.
 
Crazy, the rubber now will be an almost plastic level of brittleness. You must feel the car becomes very unpredictable in the heavy rain...right?! Spend the £400 and get them changed, will transform the car.
 
I saw someone on here the other day buy a 5-year-old pair of tyres for £250 because it had 'good' tread on them....what a total waste of money....£300 for brand new ones.

At 5 years old any performance tyre should become as good as scrap.
 
Your fronts are 14 years old and the rears 11 years old

I’d definately be getting new tyres .. I certainly wouldn’t want to be doing 70 over Hartside riding on those !

They are the only thing keeping you ON planet earth .. don’t let them be the cause of you being IN planet earth !

I just changed out a set of tyres on another car that were 10 years old but had only done 8k . But I could see the cracks starting and they were getting brittle and hard
 
Mine were 2006 Bridgestone Potenza's between 5 and 6 mm on all four. No cracks, no splits, not faded but as hard as hell. No way they were staying on. Which is okay but I didn't notice how old they were until I read how to check the code on the tyre side wall. Then a cold sweat appeared when I thought of how and where I had driven it.
 
In the past a tyre would easily last 10 years, however as technology has advanced and compounds have changed that shelf life has reduced, now I wouldn't buy a tyre more than 1 year old, or use it once it reaches 5.
 
markalp said:
In the past a tyre would easily last 10 years, however as technology has advanced and compounds have changed that shelf life has reduced, now I wouldn't buy a tyre more than 1 year old, or use it once it reaches 5.
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Yea..

My tyre man reckons 4 years is about as old as you would go if you dont want a big drop off in tyre performance an degredation.
 
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