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RE: Old Tyres

To: "Musson, Carl" <musson@arts.usf.edu>, "'Alan Hodge'" <avhbah@yahoo.com>, "Triumph List" <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: Old Tyres
From: "Randall Young" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:59:19 -0700 e du>
> What it boils down to is the last three digits of the DOT code
> are the week
> 01-52 of year (last digit).   This week would be 24 or 25 2   assume that
> since you have had the car since early 2001; that  a year 0 or 1
> is 1990/91.

The Dunlop site is somewhat out of date, the DOT code was revised so that
tires made after 1999 have a 4 digit date code.  Thus for instance a tire I
bought recently has a date code of 3301, indicating it was made in the 33rd
week of 2001.

http://www.itra.com/cts/know2.html

Randall

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