thank you 20/20

[queenbb]

they had a spot a few nights ago about ageing tires, now i agree that old old tires can lead to problems, and we do turn them around pretty quickly, yesterday i had a couple who wanted tires that were no older than 07, a resulting in me climbing under their car to see what date the tires were made, (btw it was the 49th week of 06)

link to report for those who didnt see this.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/popup?id=4819387

what did i get to do today, climb through the tire racks and retrieve all of the tires that were older than 2002. we only found a few, the oldest was 1993, so out of the 1000's of tires we came up with maybe 10.

not all tires will be sold right away, especially if they are an unpopular size or design. i had actually thought about going through them a little while ago and weeding out the random tires that were there,

for all you guys who were wondering, yes i work for the store in question, and now all my tires are 2003 and newer, ill probably have to go through them again soon to get the 3 that were 03's out (i really should have marked them now that i think about it, it would make this so much easier next year. i guess i will go back there in a few days when i dont have much to do and mark those few so i can just go back and grab them.

at least they didnt make us write the year on the tread so we knew what year it was right off, now that would have been pretty awful.

[marasbaras]

at least they didnt make us write the year on the tread so we knew what year it was right off, now that would have been pretty awful.

Only once ... after that, makes it easy. Then, all you do is mark the treads of new tires that come in.

Or, you could just check all the tiny little codes once a year on every tire ... hope you're near-sighted.

[Geek King]

Use colored chalk. One color to the year, recycled when a year gets pitched. You just mark the new ones as they get put on the rack and keep a chart as to what color is what year. Check the colors to make sure you can easily tell them apart on the tires.

[queenbb]

yah im thinking we really need to mark the tires that come in, i really hate to do things more than once,

i actually created a excel file to track all of the office equipment that we had since we had to do a yearly audit on them at my old job. i did it by hand the first year and then said screw this the next year, and did the excel file. then all i had to do was print it out, and go through and look for the barcodes, if we got new equipment or got rid of it we could do it through out the year. all we would do is just do a quick look around and check off everything incase there was something we missed. the company liked it so much they actually implemented it through out the whole company. its a rather large company that was a non profit orginzation.

as for the near sighted thing, haveing a good flashlight works wonders, all you have to do is shine it on the tire so that the letters create a shadow and you can see everything easily. i been looking for tires that way for a while now, cause once they loose their stickers, finding the right tire can be a pain in the ass, so you gotta go with model, size speed rating and load range to make sure they match.

[draftermatt]

Damn it. This thread reminded me that I'm supposed to start keeping a log of when drawings and revisions are released.

Crap.

[jam704]

I guess maybe I shouldn't be taking the cheapo route and buying used tires. For a fraction of the cost I can get almost new tires.

[Andara Bledin]

Gah. As much as I like the idea of educating consumers about tire age, I'm really irritated at how often they say stuff about "this 12-year-old tire is being sold as new."

No duh. It is new. New just means that it has never been used. As far as I know, the auto industry doesn't have a code for new old stock, so it's either new or used and no matter how old they are, those tires aren't used.

My company deals a lot with secondary market sales, so this is something that comes up all the time. Especially when dealing with the government, who can't seem to decide what the difference between new and new surplus is, and when you have to use which term. *sigh*

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[wagegoth]

My grandfather had a tire shop, then my uncle took it over; he still has it. The smell from the tires always bugged me. If I was around it enough, I kind of adjusted, but some days, especially hot days, I would get headaches when I helped do inventory.

[Aethian]

So what about retreds? I remember watching Mike Rowe do that at a shop on Dirty Jobs.

[queenbb]

Gah. As much as I like the idea of educating consumers about tire age, I'm really irritated at how often they say stuff about "this 12-year-old tire is being sold as new."

No duh. It is new. New just means that it has never been used. As far as I know, the auto industry doesn't have a code for new old stock, so it's either new or used and no matter how old they are, those tires aren't used.

My company deals a lot with secondary market sales, so this is something that comes up all the time. Especially when dealing with the government, who can't seem to decide what the difference between new and new surplus is, and when you have to use which term. *sigh*

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i agree with you, the tires are new, but rubber does degrade if they are not properly kept, and that is where the problem happens.

we have a code for discontinued tires, they end in .97cents, and they are highlighted green. 99cents is our regular stock, 98 cents is great price stock therefore never on sale, and 96 cents are special order.