Car Tyres - 3 years or 4 years?
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Car Tyres - 3 years or 4 years?
I thought the rule was they had to be replaced every 4 years - man in Satwa (a tyre salesman) just told me 3 years.
What is it?
What is it?
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Re: Car Tyres - 3 years or 4 years?
The guy in the tyre garage pointed this out to me. Normally there's a box on the tyre sidewall with a four digit number. The first two digits are the week number and the second two the year. So "3010" is the 30th week in 2010.
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Re: Car Tyres - 3 years or 4 years?
I always go for 2 years over here as a rule because of the heat.
Expensive but not worth the risk as far as I'm concerned.
Would give them a lot longer in England though.
Expensive but not worth the risk as far as I'm concerned.
Would give them a lot longer in England though.
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Re: Car Tyres - 3 years or 4 years?
Never, ever skimp on tyres--they're the only things between the road and 2 tonnes of car with you and all that's precious to you inside.
#12
Re: Car Tyres - 3 years or 4 years?
Absolutely. I don't drive on tyres more than 2 years old here--they deteriorate badly in the sun, so to hell with what any regulation says, let alone EW.
Never, ever skimp on tyres--they're the only things between the road and 2 tonnes of car with you and all that's precious to you inside.
Never, ever skimp on tyres--they're the only things between the road and 2 tonnes of car with you and all that's precious to you inside.
don't worry, I'll get new ones at the weekend.
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Re: Car Tyres - 3 years or 4 years?
(and only about 3-4000km on my motorbike.)
man up and stop driving like ms daisy
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Re: Car Tyres - 3 years or 4 years?
I do try and wear the buggers out but the Pajero is so underpowered I just can't seem to do it.
I'm actually not sure how much they have done, I'm guessing 40k (20k in my ownership and about the same with the previous bloke).
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Re: Car Tyres - 3 years or 4 years?
6 yr old landcruiser and had third set of tyres fitted last December. Low mileage - only 55k - but saw the last set of tyres when they came off. The heat damage isn't necessarily where you can see it (there was plenty of tread left) - on our tyres it was near the wheel rims. And as most of our mileage is (relatively) long distance/high speed between Muscat and Dubai the last thing we want is a blow-out. Well worth the cost of new boots every two years in our minds anyway.
Just hope they junked our old tyres - as said, the tread looked fine
Just hope they junked our old tyres - as said, the tread looked fine