For ensuring safety, inspecting the age of your lorry or car tyres is necessary. You can also avoid breaking the new law stated by the UK restricting minibuses, buses and Lorries from making use of tyres more than 10 years old. For checking the tyre age instantly, you need to make use of the tyre age code. It can be dangerous to drive on a rubber that is far from its selling date. It can leave you helpless and accident-prone.

The new law

Using tyres that are more than 10 years old in minibuses, buses, Lorries and coaches is termed illegal since February this year. In the steered front axles of coaches, buses and HGVs and minibuses’ all wheels, fitting older tyres more than 10 years is illegal. The retreaded tyres also fall under such a category. The re-treading date must also be marked. It will ensure clear visibility of the Mobile Tyre Fitting Manchester This law doesn’t include commercial vehicles more than 40 years of age or older.

How can the exact age of the tyres be found?

A DOT code must be displayed in all tyres for Lorries and cars. The required information is offered by this to get the exact car tyre’s age. The tyre sidewall depicts such code and contains three or four-digit usually which is followed by letter collection.

Old tyres have tread loads.

The rubber in the tyre gets damaged after continuous exposure to the UV light for long even though it looks safe, seems to have enough tread and has no bulges or tears. The UV rays oxidize the rubber and make it brittle.

Does the tyre used in the car or truck have maximum age?

The tyre age has no legal limit as per the old law but, the new rule depicts that the tyres that are more than 10 years old can’t be fitted to the front axle of minibuses, goods vehicle weighing more than 3.5 tonnes, coaches and buses until twin tyres are present on the axle. However, you must keep on checking the tyres at regular intervals for any damage, cracking or ageing signs.

Ensure new rubber in new car

Your new motor earlier could have evolved from the production line. Although, it might just have rolled off the forecourt. While buying the car, you must ensure that the tyres are new. Apart from this, you must also check the tyre age if you are buying a secondhand vehicle as dealers may cheat you by using rubber of some old vehicle’s tyre to make more profit. You must always ensure that the number plate and age of the tyres can be reconciled.

The spare tyre

It is recommended that you replace your car tyres at a time interval due to regular damage and wearing but, the original item would always be the spare tyre. It indicates that the spare is old disproportionately and could put you in trouble whenever you use it.

New tyres

Again, while buying any new Car Tyres Manchester. You need to check the date of manufacture. Usually, the tyres are ordered by the suppliers when needed. But, this doesn’t mean that the rubber of the tyre is new. Usually, it is believed by the tyre industry that tyres have a shelf life of five years but this is not always true.

You must ensure to get a new product as the dealers purchase tyres in stockpile and bulk to get at a cheap price. Buying new rubber is never cheap but getting an old aged tyre is also not safe. You better be careful while purchasing used tyres.

Which tyres are too old?

If you use your tyres regularly, which release the chemicals to resist oxidation, you must change the tyres after at least six years. On the other hand, you must check the tyres before hitting the roads with the tyres that have been stored unused for long.