BlueStang07-Eddie
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 |  Subject: Tire Safety Read Important!!!!!!  Tue Jul 01, 2008 1:16 pm | |
| For everyone's safety and peace of mind, pls. check the last 4 digits on the back of your tires. The last 4 digits indicate the week and the year the tire was made. Example: 4201= 42nd week of 2001. If you go to the store and look at a new tire with this code; you are buying a 7- year old tire. With time, the inner structure of the tires dries up and cracks resulting to fatal accidents. So, not all brand new tires out there are necessarily new.
Got this at work so be careful.Thanks Eddie.
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MistaX
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| | Subject: Re: Tire Safety Read Important!!!!!! Tue Jul 01, 2008 2:04 pm | |
| Yeah, barely anyone knows about the date codes.
Just to add my own piece of advice. Check your pressures once a month. Low tires rip the hell out of the tread/sidewall, can overheat and explode, make your car slower and use more gas uselessly.
So yeah, fill 'em up.
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jerseysilverstang07
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| | Subject: Re: Tire Safety Read Important!!!!!! Tue Jul 01, 2008 8:09 pm | |
| | MistaX wrote: | Yeah, barely anyone knows about the date codes.
Just to add my own piece of advice. Check your pressures once a month. Low tires rip the hell out of the tread/sidewall, can overheat and explode, make your car slower and use more gas uselessly.
So yeah, fill 'em up. |
yeah only problem faced here is either 50 cents for air or the ones that are still free air have broken gauges on them
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| | Subject: Re: Tire Safety Read Important!!!!!! Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:00 pm | |
| | jerseysilverstang07 wrote: | | MistaX wrote: | Yeah, barely anyone knows about the date codes.
Just to add my own piece of advice. Check your pressures once a month. Low tires rip the hell out of the tread/sidewall, can overheat and explode, make your car slower and use more gas uselessly.
So yeah, fill 'em up. |
yeah only problem faced here is either 50 cents for air or the ones that are still free air have broken gauges on them |
You a hand pump and hand gauge.. haha
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Hellbound
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| | Subject: Re: Tire Safety Read Important!!!!!! Thu Jul 10, 2008 9:04 pm | |
| | Thats great info. I have seen tire stores trying to sell tires that must have been sitting on the shelf for years. |
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PONY GUY
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Location : Cape May , NJ
| | Subject: Re: Tire Safety Read Important!!!!!! Sat Jul 12, 2008 11:00 am | |
| yeah you would be surpries how much you could save in a year doing something simple as checkin the air and your tires .
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