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Question:

How can we determine the age of an automobile tire?

Is there some kind of code on the tire?

Answer:

the date the tire was made is printed on the sidewall.
hard to get accuracy on that one unless you got it brand new and you're the only driver. outside of that really depends on the driver road. if you're old folk, you probably never get over the speed limit, never hit bumps you're the person i'm trying to get around on the freeway. i'd trust your tire tread mark. if you're a teen - 25 yrs, then i know the tire is put thru hard times paces.
The production code on all tires are not equal but you will see a special code in an ellipse shape on at least 80% of all tires on the market, and that will help you find tire date of manufacture. The last 4 digits on the ellipse tells us tire manufacture date. The first 2 digits is PRODUCTION WEEK and the last 2 digits is the YEAR. Assuming there are 4 weeks in a month, we can say that this tire was manufactured by the end of March 2003 (1212th week of the year, 03Year 2003). 5000 means 50th week of year 2000, which means December 2000.

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