This is a YouTube video titled "How to tell If A Tire Is to Old" containing a single speaker explaining how to check the manufacturing date on used tires to avoid buying old and potentially dangerous tires. The speaker discusses reading the DOT number and interpreting the date code to assess tire age and safety.
Now, if you're out looking for used tires, watch out what you buy. Let me show you why. All right, so as you can see, that tire's got really good tread and everything. There's no dry rotting whatsoever. Even on the sidewalls, nothing's cracking at all, right? Right. Now, on your tires, look on the sidewall, you'll see a dot number. That one's got all the dot numbers right here. But it doesn't have the manufacturer's date. So one side of the tire has that date. Let me show you that I know. This outer tire, as you see, has dot numbers. Again, has all your little letters and numbers. And then you go, here it has an 00906. Now, what does that 0906 mean? That means it's made in the ninth week of 2006. So if you know how to do math, that tire is 19 years old. So just because these tires look good, watch out. When you go and buy used tires, you do not want to buy something that's that old, because this thing is a ticking time bomb. And this thing could explode at any time when it gets put back into service from heating and cooling. Heating and cooling. You will definitely have a blowout with this tire.
