From: jed on
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
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
> 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
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

"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