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old tire question 850 1996

posted by  footrest on  Wed Feb 10 22:16 CST 2010
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Went to pick up new tires today from discount tire (somewhat related to discount tire direct online store). I had already chosen and paid for four Kumho Ecsta LX Platinum.

I asked them to show me the date of manufacture before installing. I was there with my son so got distracted showing him around the store. When i went in the garage area to check them putting it on my son's future car ( he is 5 :) ) they showed a manufacture date of 0808 which is eight week of 2008.

Both the store manager and Kumho 'wearhouse person' in GA told me they would honour 6yr warranty from date of purchase on this 60K tire. I was just of the point of view that regardless of my tire condition i would throw them out on their sixth year because of rubber compound degradation. So in effect i was paying for tires which would only be good for four years now that it is 2010 already.

I asked them to either reduce initial cost or get me recently manufacture tires. Comments?

All the tires I have purchased in the past have been recently manufactured (within the year) ... same for the rest of y'all?







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    old tire question 850 1996

    posted by  someone claiming to be dwight on  Thu Feb 11 13:38 CST 2010 [RELATED]

    Good pickup. FYI, I had some snow tires in storage that I put on my 1995 850 in 2007. They were BF Goodrich. They were 13 years old but appeared to be in good shape. I should have known better but 2 of the 4 went bad in months. On one the tread separated from the tire and on the other on the belts within the tire slipped causing the tire to be out of balance.








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    old tire question 850 1996

    posted by  KlausC on  Thu Feb 11 04:59 CST 2010
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    Good for you! A smart consumer always wins and a lesson for the rest of us, not all 'new' products are new. And New Old Stock should not be sold as 'new'.

    Any part that contains soft (rubber like) components will degrade and harden over time, whether they are tires or brake master cylinders. Smaller parts that are enclosed in sealed plastic bags usually last longer by not being subjected to humidity changes, but tires are not stored that way.

    Thank you,

    Klaus
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    Proud owner of a 220S. If I had more room, I would have more Volvos.








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    old tire question 850 1996

    posted by  someone claiming to be fixit2002 on  Thu Feb 11 04:14 CST 2010 [RELATED]

    Looks like they were on a REALLY SLOW boat from China!! They'll just resell them to a not-so-savy customer. Good job catching this.








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    old tire question 850 1996

    posted by  footrest on  Wed Feb 10 22:17 CST 2010
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    SO just to finish up ... the store understood and put my previous tires on and will call me back.








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      old tire question 850 1996

      posted by  footrest on  Fri Feb 12 10:09 CST 2010
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      Turns out the Kumho Ecsta LX have been discontinued .. i called around a bunch of places before someone told me. I confirmed this with the store i am supposed to pick my my tires at. They told me they did not disclose the discontinuation fact because *it was the tires i wanted* ... can you see something wrong with this picture? No wonder they could not get new tires for me

      So i told them to shove it and get me the Kumho Ecsta SPT. I would go somewhere else but these guys are giving me a prorated warranty rebate per current tire. That saves me $80 total.







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