Worth a thought...?

[SimonP]

Take a look at this.....

 

[sawood12]

Wow, i'll have to check mine out. I've had them on the car for nearly 5yrs now so even if brand new when I bought them they're going to be a bit tired now.

 

[sawood12]

Just checked, all are just within date - i've about a year to go, which means when I bought the tyres they must have been pretty fresh off the production line. I wonder why this isn't a well known issue in the UK? I wonder if it is because alot more of the cars in the states are large and heavy SUV type vehicles.

 

[Neil Haughey]

I guess that most times nothing is done until you start to see cracks in the rubber, even then whoever is looking at the car needs to spot this and the owner needs to then take action. Old tyres definitely go off badly. The continentals on the front of my 968 seem to have gone very hard. They don't grip well but they also don't seem to want to wear out, they must be at least 5 years old. The Hankooks on my S2 will be going on the 968 to run down this summer, they are 3 years old or so but again have gone very hard and don't grip like they used to. After giving the car some abuse they started to come back to life a little but I doubt they will ever be optimum again.

Moral seems to be drive the car on a regular basis and replace tyres every couple of years. I wonder how many garage queens are out there sat on dead rubber.

 

[Super_Marv]

I checked the age of the Vredestein's I put on my 968 a couple of weeks ago, when I got them - the fronts were 3 weeks old, and the rears 3 months old.

When evo magazine did their tyre test a couple of years ago, they found that 3 week old tyres stop 14% quicker (7 meters) when braking in the wet, over 6 month old tyres - so tyres which are 5-6 years old must have lost quite a bit of their performance!