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Do older stock tyres wear quicker?

  • 12-04-2014 9:35am
    #1
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    Hi lads a quick question do tyres that are sitting in stock a few years wear quicker than ones of the production line??


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  • #2
    Neilw
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    Rubber hardens over time so I would say they would last longer, plus grip level would reduce as the rubber hardens.

    I had a 7 year old premium brand tyres on a car and the grip was a bad as budget tyres.


  • #3
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    I put two 5 year old Potenzas on the front of my car and only got about 6K kms out of them. I just replaced them with two Pirellis that were made in 2010 but got them at a good price.


  • #4
    djimi
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    Neilw wrote: »
    Rubber hardens over time so I would say they would last longer, plus grip level would reduce as the rubber hardens.

    I had a 7 year old premium brand tyres on a car and the grip was a bad as budget tyres.

    Old rubber also tends to crack and get more brittle as it hardens though, does it not? I wouldnt have thought that its the same as a hard compound that is made from new rubber, if that makes sense?


  • #5
    Neilw
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    djimi wrote: »
    Old rubber also tends to crack and get more brittle as it hardens though, does it not? I wouldnt have thought that its the same as a hard compound that is made from new rubber, if that makes sense?

    I don't know, the old tyres I had didn't have any cracks but their grip level was terrible compared to fresh tyres.


  • #6
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    I am selling mine soon anyway so I just needed good tyres on it before its sold.


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