It's not just about tread

[alexanderfoti]

Check your tyres for age as well!

 

[Wighty]

Check your tyres for age as well!

You’ll get another few years from that buddy

 

[rorywquin]

Yep - year of manufacture is marked on the tyre.

 

[Dean Fletcher]

My wife's is 8 years old and pass ne bosh.

 

[Uncle Benz]

UV. I’ve a customer who always parks her car on the drive a particular way around. Two tyres are in the sun for eight hours a day, two are permanently in the shade. Guess which two perish prematurely?

How do you make a duck into a soul singer??

Stick it in the microwave until it’s Bill Withers...

 

[Dean Fletcher]

UV. I’ve a customer who always parks her car on the drive a particular way around. Two tyres are in the sun for eight hours a day, two are permanently in the shade. Guess which two perish prematurely?

How do you make a duck into a soul singer??

Stick it in the microwave until it’s Bill Withers...

Ain't no sunshine when she's gone.

 

[AMGeed]

My rear tyres don't look great either. Both rears dated 2016.

 

[EmilysDad]

EmilysMum's car had a couple of tyres like that .... It'd even been MOT'd with them

 

[AMGeed]

EmilysMum's car had a couple of tyres like that .... It'd even been MOT'd with them

Mine was serviced and MOT'd at main dealers the day before I bought the car with the rears like that.
Admittedly 9 months later they look the same and no worse.

 

[John Laidlaw]

My XC90 had its first MOT on its 3rd anniversary last week, both rears had an advisory for perished/cracked tyres.
Checked and the tyres are 2017 , the year of the car build.
I park it nose into the garage door , so the fronts are less exposed to UV so I’d agree with Unclebenz . Bit irritating as the tyres are barely worn (14k miles, 6-7mm tread).

 

[Wighty]

My rear tyres don't look great either. Both rears dated 2016.
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My 2008 tyres on the rear of the E class are in better condition than those , weird isn’t it

 

[V6Matty]

My 2008 tyres on the rear of the E class are in better condition than those , weird isn’t it

That’s because your are normally off being polished or caressed in some way

 

[Wighty]

That’s because your are normally off being polished or caressed in some way

So you are saying if I used them .....