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Message: <blockquote data-quote="three2go" data-source="post: 97993" data-attributes="member: 1849">and further to my earlier post, the most impt thing is to check that the side-walls of yr tires are ok and that there are no cuts or importantly no "bulges" or lumps on the side-walls - as this means that the tire is "weak" at this point and shd not be used at all and replaced immediately.  Technically tires can be safely used on the cars within their designed "life-span" which is actually the number of km that they are used which is between 30,000km and 45,000km depending on a variety of driving styles and road conditions - and which manufacturers will take an average of between 14 mths for a high mileage user to 3 yrs for a low-mileage driver (ie after the sell-out "4-yr date as a guide). Tires blow-outs are usually bec of under-inflation and high speed driving (due to excessive heat build-up) - hence on the drivers door sills, the car manufacturer would always state the normal air pressure and a higher air pressure for constant high speed, long distance driving. In fact "technically" too there are "no expiry" on the life of a tire - provided that there is no visible damage to the side-walls - hence we still see alot of re-thread tires being used and these are bought mainly by very cost-concious drivers, taxis, fleet operators like buses and trucks - and often these are very much ordinary tires and some are not even of the multi-steel belted side-wall construction type.</blockquote>

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