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New tyre look old

  • 06-02-2018 6:03pm
    #1
    nails1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 495 ✭✭


    I got a Bridgestone potenza runflat fitted on my car last week. However I was looking at the tyre this morning and I noticed the Bridgestone logo on the side on the tyre is almost faded and tyre looks very dirty, I’ve only driven 100 miles or so since the fitting. Is this normal with a new tyre? I had two of the same type tyres fitted new 6 months ago on the front and remember they looked a lot cleaner.


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  • #2
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    nails1 wrote: »
    I got a Bridgestone potenza runflat fitted on my car last week. However I was looking at the tyre this morning and I noticed the Bridgestone logo on the side on the tyre is almost faded and tyre looks very dirty, I’ve only driven 100 miles or so since the fitting. Is this normal with a new tyre? I had two of the same type tyres fitted new 6 months ago on the front and remember they looked a lot cleaner.


    Have you checked tyre pressure.

    My last 2 new tyres looked like that after one blow out and other nail puncture.


  • #3
    ongarite
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,369 ✭✭✭ongarite


    Should be a manufacturing date stamped on them.


  • #4
    E36Ross
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 260 ✭✭E36Ross


    Made 48th week 2017 :)

    Top left of pic 1 is the DOT code which tells you manufacturing date.


  • #5
    The high horse brigade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,456 ✭✭✭The high horse brigade


    FFS wash it!


  • #6
    nails1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 495 ✭✭nails1


    E36Ross wrote: »
    Made 48th week 2017 :)

    Top left of pic 1 is the DOT code which tells you manufacturing date.

    Thanks I thought it might have been a used tyre I got stung with but chances are it’s new if only manufactured around early December time


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  • #7
    the_pen_turner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,597 ✭✭✭the_pen_turner


    wash it and put tire shine stuff on it


  • #8
    btkm8unsl0w5r4
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,535 ✭✭✭btkm8unsl0w5r4


    Only way to tell is to have your alloys refurbished, buy 4 new center caps on ebay and refit the wheels and have them balanced and aligned. No beemer deserves such neglect...


  • #9
    nails1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 495 ✭✭nails1


    Thanks for all the help guys. I should have phrased my original post better. I was unsure if the tyres looked in used condition not that they were old or dirty. I didn’t want to have paid 145 for a part worn tire. But a poster above has helped me by pointing out they were only manufactured 2 months ago so probably new and unused.


  • #10
    testicles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭testicles


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