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From: jed on 24 Dec 2009 06:56 was just about to buy a new set from costco, have to look numbers little closer http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4826897
From: Scott Dorsey on 24 Dec 2009 10:51 jed <jed(a)ubuxhjs.com> wrote: >was just about to buy a new set from costco, have to look numbers little closer > >http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4826897 Looks to me like a silly tire advertisement being passed off as news. Check your tires for dry rot periodically if you aren't driving them very often. Buy tires from some place that sells a lot of tires. Don't buy crappy tires. And learn what to do in the event of a blowout and how to get the car to the side safely. Tires today are a whole lot more reliable than they were when I was learning to drive. The downside of this is that people are a lot more surprised by tire failures and less likely to know what to do when a tire fails. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
From: Horner on 24 Dec 2009 11:23 > Looks to me like a silly tire advertisement being passed off as news. not so sure. I looked at the tires I just got from Tirerack.com and was surprised all 4 tires had been manufactured at different time intervals, one tire was 6 years old, three tires were 5 years old code on sidewall 1104, 0605, 4305, 4405 they were definitely not an identical sibling set while they otherwise looked identical
From: Scott Dorsey on 24 Dec 2009 11:51 Horner <horner(a)hornet.no> wrote: >> Looks to me like a silly tire advertisement being passed off as news. > >not so sure. > >I looked at the tires I just got from Tirerack.com and was surprised all 4 >tires had been manufactured at different time intervals, one tire was 6 >years old, three tires were 5 years old > >code on sidewall 1104, 0605, 4305, 4405 > >they were definitely not an identical sibling set while they otherwise >looked identical And this is a problem why? --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
From: hls on 24 Dec 2009 12:00
"jed" <jed(a)ubuxhjs.com> wrote in message news:hgvkt9$ott$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > was just about to buy a new set from costco, have to look numbers little > closer > > http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4826897 > This came out in the newsgroup some time ago. And it is true. If the tires are stored |