Tyres over 6 years old, are I believe, unsafe to use, Ian. This might be
merely a story put about the the tyre industry in the UK, but that was the last
I heard; it was supported by the motoring agencies . . .
Chris
On 21 Sep 2010, at 08:30, SwissPace wrote:
> With winter tyres age is also important (probably also for summer
> tyres), my Audi has the original set of winter tyres I bought when new,
> and they were brilliant coupled with the 4wd when new, for example I
> went on a skiing trip with pals to arosa and had no problems at all, all
> the others in the party had to stop and put chains on. Now however they
> still have plenty of tread but are 9 years old and are useless in the
> snow, I guess the rubber hardens over time. As an aside I swapped the
> summer tyres which lasted 8 years last year, (it costs over an E-5 a
> set) and that transformed the car - but thats another story.
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