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Mar 21, 2014Explorer
Aging tire law???
Maybe good for consumer?? Maryland House Bill 580 would require a tire dealer who sells a tire more than three years old to give the buyer a written statement that the tire is not new, and that ma...
OldRadios wrote:Wonder if any of them have ever been in the average distributobship warehouse. Hot as hell in the summer, well over 100 degrees! And at night they really cool off because there is no insulation. That can't be good for tires.
I like this line:
"Tire dealers testifying at the hearing agreed that heat, punctures and poor handling accelerate the degradation of a tire, but insisted that with proper storage a tire can last many years.
"A 10-year-old tire can be better than a newer tire that's sat out in the sun," said Ralph Schissler, president of Atlantic Tire in Baltimore."
Don't have a garage? Just remove your tires and store them each time between uses...
I have to agree that the part about informing the buyers that their new tires they just bought are already three years old is a good idea.