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 1303Steve
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| posted on July 13th, 2008 at 11:15 AM |
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How old are your tyres?
Hi
I saw this posted on GermanLook.com, very interesting viewing.
Tyre video
Steve
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| posted on July 13th, 2008 at 01:27 PM |
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Hmm the ones I've got on there were made 23rd week of 2003.
Even worse is the tyres I got with my jelly beans, 3rd week of 2000.
I reckon that story is just over exagerated like most of A Current Affairs stories though.
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| posted on July 13th, 2008 at 01:55 PM |
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I think you will find it's not exagerated....When I was doing roadworthy certificates a lot of cars failed as the tyres were too old....more than 10
years and they are no good.Insurance companies loved it...less payouts...old tyres,car not roadworthy...
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trickysimon
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| posted on July 13th, 2008 at 03:14 PM |
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Were the tyres failed simply because they were 10 years old? Or were they hard and stiff and looked old?
Simon
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| posted on July 13th, 2008 at 03:20 PM |
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age.
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| posted on July 13th, 2008 at 05:05 PM |
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when i got my 69 notch, it was still running its origional cross plys, the treads were all exactly the same with the same amount of wear. the side
walls were very perished, and the cracks between the treads were almost as deep as the treads themselves!
i reccon those tyres must have been about 40 years old!! the notch is running on radials now!
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| posted on July 13th, 2008 at 05:30 PM |
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my ovals tyres have the dates on them the same as the year I purchased them 05 on front and 07 on the rear all good I'm safe.
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| posted on July 13th, 2008 at 06:04 PM |
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very early tyers were rubber new stuff are made from everything but rubber and crack
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| posted on July 13th, 2008 at 08:19 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by vwjon
when i got my 69 notch, it was still running its origional cross plys, the treads were all exactly the same with the same amount of wear. the side
walls were very perished, and the cracks between the treads were almost as deep as the treads themselves!
i reccon those tyres must have been about 40 years old!! the notch is running on radials now!
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same with my latest toy, came with 4 crossplys, 2 of them recaps I think 
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| posted on July 13th, 2008 at 08:42 PM |
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Good find Steve, I had a tyre fail (tread began parting company) on my HQ Holden near Byron Bay while cruising to Qld in 2001. It was pretty scary...
They were VERY old and I knew it. I bought new tyres straight away at Nerang, but now THEY are 7 years old... but done only maybe 5000km. Also had a
tyre let go on a low-kay 'grandma' Ford laser. Done 50,000km in 8 years and the tyres were like dried mud...
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the four tyres that came on My wide chromed wheels that had plenty of tread but they cracked around the side walls..
I have 4 new tyres on now...
many years ago, [in the 70s] someone gave Me a vw wheel with a good michelin tyre on it
I put it on My superbug [on the front] [???]
and it blew out while doing 100kmhs on the highway..
it was very old and self destructed while throwing the beetle off the highway...
so, any cracks and its goodbye old tyres...
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| posted on July 14th, 2008 at 07:38 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by greedy53
very early tyers were rubber new stuff are made from everything but rubber and crack
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nah.. still got rubber in em.
see.... air and water do mix 
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| posted on July 14th, 2008 at 08:18 AM |
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ok
the only numbers that i can find
made in Taiwan Nankangs 2210 and 2310 ???
made in New Zealand firestones 286 and 276 ????
maybe me tyres are really old
on my new cars its 2206 and 2204 easy ones
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| posted on July 14th, 2008 at 10:33 AM |
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this may help:
http://www.crashprevention.com.au/enews_14/retyrement_14.html
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| posted on July 14th, 2008 at 01:37 PM |
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I had to buy a replacement tyre in February for our Mazda 6 (sorry folks..wifes idea) and it's a 2004 model.I wanted the factory spec tyres which had
to be ordered as they were not a common type. A week later the tyre arrives and I checked the date.The tyre was 5 years old!! They got upset when I
refused it and they had to get another. It ALWAYS pays to check the date.My last TOYO buggy tyres were 10 years old this year and even though they had
90% tread on them they were "out of date" and I replaced them....
Better safe than sorry.
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| posted on July 14th, 2008 at 02:11 PM |
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Tyre failure is a BIG problem for trailers and caravans
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| posted on July 14th, 2008 at 09:57 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by ian.mezz
the only numbers that i can find
made in Taiwan Nankangs 2210 and 2310 ???
made in New Zealand firestones 286 and 276 ????
maybe me tyres are really old
on my new cars its 2206 and 2204 easy ones
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Nice set of tyres,  tried to get Nankangs for my Beetle and were
not avaliable.
Replaced all the tryes on my cars as a matter of course so nothing older than 2006, the 63 was running of light truck tyres that were so hard and
cracked they would stay up with no air in them, the Spitfire had 30 year old Dunlops and the other triumph had tyres the wrong size on so they were
replaced!
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| posted on July 15th, 2008 at 01:23 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by HWY728
| Quote: | Originally
posted by ian.mezz
the only numbers that i can find
made in Taiwan Nankangs 2210 and 2310 ???
made in New Zealand firestones 286 and 276 ????
maybe me tyres are really old
on my new cars its 2206 and 2204 easy ones
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Nice set of tyres, tried to get Nankangs for my Beetle and were
not avaliable.
Replaced all the tryes on my cars as a matter of course so nothing older than 2006, the 63 was running of light truck tyres that were so hard and
cracked they would stay up with no air in them, the Spitfire had 30 year old Dunlops and the other triumph had tyres the wrong size on so they were
replaced!
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yes its a great combination firestone on the front and nankangs on the rear it feel like your driving in the rain all the time  
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| posted on July 15th, 2008 at 01:31 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by VWCOOL
Tyre failure is a BIG problem for trailers and caravans
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You can drive around highways on Sundays and you always see boat trailers with flat tyres or wheel bearings gone...
trailers go OK with flat tyres - no air
but as soon as you put a load in it...
there really go flat but only on the bottom.... lol
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