How can we determine the age of an automobile tire?

Question

Is there some kind of code on the tire?

Answer 1

the date the tire was made is printed on the sidewall.

Answer 2

hard to get accuracy on that one unless you got it brand new and you're the only driver.

outside of that really depends on the driver & road. if you're old folk, you probably never get over the speed limit, never hit bumps & you're the person i'm trying to get around on the freeway. i'd trust your tire tread mark.

if you're a teen - 25 yrs, then i know the tire is put thru hard times & paces.

Answer 3

The production code on all tires are not equal but you will see a special code in an ellipse shape on at least 80% of all tires on the market, and that will help you find tire date of manufacture.

The "last 4 digits" on the ellipse tells us tire manufacture date. The first 2 digits is "PRODUCTION WEEK" and the last 2 digits is the "YEAR". Assuming there are 4 weeks in a month, we can say that this tire was manufactured by the end of March 2003 (12=12th week of the year, 03=Year 2003).

5000 means 50th week of year 2000, which means December 2000.

Answer 4

Yep that UCANTCME guy has it right on the money again............