Tyre Expiry Date
Category: life, homeJust jotting down life’s little tibits 
I’m not sure if people are aware that all tyres have an limited lifespan. I’ve changed by expired tyres recently even though the tyre threads were still good for few more months. While chatting with the mechanic that was changing my tyres, I’m surprised he wasn’t aware of this at all!
A typical lifespan tyre is about 4 years. Once it reached their lifespan, rubber would have started to harden & more prone to crack when running under hot weather. So to be on the safe side, do consider changing your tyre once it’s expired irregardless if the threads are still good.
So how to check tyre expiry date? The date of manufacture is usually indicated on one side of tyre in week-year format. For example, the following shows 3103 which means the tyre was manufactured on week 31 of 2003 (There are 52 weeks in a year). So just add 4 years to workout the expiry date of your tyre.
Hope that’s useful!
Most useful info for today, for me. Thanks Slurp!
Comment by Mable — November 14, 2007 @ 11:37 pm
Thanks for the expiry date info
Comment by Chen — November 17, 2007 @ 11:33 pm
Glad that the information is useful
Comment by slurp! — November 22, 2007 @ 2:11 am
Ny tyre Yokohanma is 2002 product,,It make to me atrouble last trip..So I can said no more 6 years from MF date,,
Comment by AG HTUT OO — March 1, 2009 @ 4:59 pm
My tyre Yokohanma is 2002 product,,It make to me a trouble last trip..So I can say no more 6 years from MF date,,
Comment by AG HTUT OO — March 1, 2009 @ 5:01 pm