Tires & DOT

rhagfo wrote:

SH wrote:

pcm1959 wrote:
…...anyway, back to DOT codes on tires....I will update once they arrive.

As the OP I can also UPDATE. My GY 614's arrived from Amazon...great price, free shipping. However, three of the four were a year old and one was 10 months old. I returned them, again no charge for shipping and did receive a full refund in about 10 days.

Neither Simple Tire or Tire Rack would guarantee any kind of a reasonable DOT Date of Manufacture. Kind of a "you get what you get" attitude.

Anyway, on the recommendation from one of the posters above, I called my local Discount Tire (who I use regularly for our family vehicles) and they are willing to get me the freshest tires in their warehouse with a guarantee of no more than 6 months old. The are a bit more expensive.

Tomorrow I will be ordering from Discount Tire.

I will never understand the hassle many will go through to get trailer tires, the get them mounted. Three trailers all shod at local Discount Tire, good dot dates. If not in stock have them order, once tires are at store take the trailer in and have them do all the work.
Can’t believe those that will try to figure out to jack up the trailer then take one, two, or maybe all four to the tire store to have them mounted then drag them back and reinstall. Never seen a Discount Tire store I couldn’t get a 40’ trailer in.

That usually happens when someone wants to put LTs on a trailer that's placarded for STs with a higher weight capacity. I will tell you that the 2 closest Discount Tires to me are sketchy in getting anything > 30' into, though I've seen a couple 3-axle THs in the closest one. Basically, you have to stop on a side street, walk into the store and get several guys to come out and direct traffic so you can back in. Getting my old 29' Komfort in was an adventure, and I'm pretty good.

Lyle