Tire Born Dates

[Retired_VSP]

I'm getting ready to purchase 5 new Goodyear tires for my mh. Two of the tires have April as born dates...3 have October and November 2016. Is the October and November dates something I should be concerned about or should I go with them?

[jyrostng]

Grit dog wrote:

Retired VSP wrote:
Thanks to all.....do your new tires usually balance pretty good or do they have a shimmy....my dealer said he is going to use powder to balance....just wondering...I'd hate to have a shimmy all the way to Alaska and back...ugh

Nooo. Get them spin balanced, period. They balance as well as any other tire and do not have a "shimmy."

I use beads, smooth as silk.

[ol_Bombero-JC]

Grit dog wrote:

Retired VSP wrote:
Thanks to all.....do your new tires usually balance pretty good or do they have a shimmy....my dealer said he is going to use powder to balance....just wondering...I'd hate to have a shimmy all the way to Alaska and back...ugh

Nooo. Get them spin balanced, period. They balance as well as any other tire and do not have a "shimmy."

VSP - find (*run* to) a different dealer!
(that guy has been snorting some kind of "powder")

Grit dog is 100% correct - *ANYTHING* that rotates should be balanced.
Tires are the easiest (and least expensive) of all the "anythings" to balance.

Spin balance and external weights..:C

~

[Grit_dog]

Retired VSP wrote:
Thanks to all.....do your new tires usually balance pretty good or do they have a shimmy....my dealer said he is going to use powder to balance....just wondering...I'd hate to have a shimmy all the way to Alaska and back...ugh

Nooo. Get them spin balanced, period. They balance as well as any other tire and do not have a "shimmy."

[Grit_dog]

Too add to it, a lot of trailer tires don't get balanced. Idk why tire shops think a 14-15" tire holding up 2000lbs down the highway would not need balanced the same as a car tire. It's weird. Just had a tire replaced that I chunked out the sidewall on a USO (unknown sharp object) lol. Dude at Les Schwabs didn't balance it and acted like that was normal practice. Surprised I made him go balance it!

[Grit_dog]

Retired VSP wrote:

Grit dog wrote:

Retired VSP wrote:
Great replies...I just didn't want to seem difficult with the dealer over 7-8 month old tires....

Well, you are being difficult. You're not buying Fried Chicken that s ucks if it's not fresh out of the fryer. They're tires...Yeah I wouldn't want some that were years old, but cmon. Born on dates are for beer, not tires!

I like yer thinking Grit dog....I've just been brainwashed into thinking "6 months no more"

There is some validity to it, for sure, but I feel that UV exposure, tire pressure, balancing, tire quality and road hazards are more of a consideration than if the tire sat in a warehouse over 6 months.
Coming from towing and/or repairing a plethora of different trailers for alotta years.
The "excessive" blow outs I've experienced have some from a couple different conditions. 1 being running P rated car tires, unsure of age, cross country, hot weather. Learnt my lesson on that one, lol.
The other was the rash of Goodyear Marathons, that, on several boat trailers, I would now not trust to get me across the street! Some of those had probably severe UV exposure even though they weren't but a few years old, 1 came apart just sitting on the spare tire carrier! This was a specific brand/model issue though, to the point that 2 tire dealers, 1 being a Goodyear store wouldn't even sell replacement new Marathons!

[fj12ryder]

Why would your dealer use powder instead of weights? Although the beads/powder seem to work fairly well at moderate speeds. Personally I'd rather have wheels/tires that were actually balanced.

How does one keep the powder from clumping when moisture is introduced into the system, like with an air compressor?

[Retired_VSP]

Thanks to all.....do your new tires usually balance pretty good or do they have a shimmy....my dealer said he is going to use powder to balance....just wondering...I'd hate to have a shimmy all the way to Alaska and back...ugh

[jyrostng]

If I was that way about tires in the small town I live in, there would be NO tire stores I could go to. I just bought 7 new Hankooks delivered from a air conditioned warehouse in Dallas that were 18 months old, 19.5's.

[Retired_VSP]

Grit dog wrote:

Retired VSP wrote:
Great replies...I just didn't want to seem difficult with the dealer over 7-8 month old tires....

Well, you are being difficult. You're not buying Fried Chicken that s ucks if it's not fresh out of the fryer. They're tires...Yeah I wouldn't want some that were years old, but cmon. Born on dates are for beer, not tires!

I like yer thinking Grit dog....I've just been brainwashed into thinking "6 months no more"

[Grit_dog]

Retired VSP wrote:
Great replies...I just didn't want to seem difficult with the dealer over 7-8 month old tires....

Well, you are being difficult. You're not buying Fried Chicken that s ucks if it's not fresh out of the fryer. They're tires...Yeah I wouldn't want some that were years old, but cmon. Born on dates are for beer, not tires!

[Harvey51]

Even Costco has been getting fussy about tire age and condition, insisting on replacing two at a time and putting the new ones on the back of our front wheel drive van. I've started leaving the van at home and taking just the wheel I want changed to the tire shop. No problem with that; it's not their fault if I have a crash because the emergency stop isn't as good on a curved road with a large puddle of water.

[fj12ryder]

"Detreated"?

[Retired_VSP]

Great replies...I just didn't want to seem difficult with the dealer over 7-8 month old tires....

[WILDEBILL308]

dodge guy wrote:
There is nothing wrong with tires that are 6 months old. They are still new as they were never used. I wouldn't hesitate!

Well yes there is. If you replace your tiers at 7 years for Motor home and 5 for a trailer it means you have 6 mouths les use. Unfortunately tires start to detreated when they come out of the mold not when they are installed.
Bill