Are you having difficulties reading the DOT number of your tires? Do you want to know how to read tire date codes? If you have lost the receipt of your purchase, you might be having difficulties knowing the exact age of your tires. This issue is common and you can find the solution from your tires. Just observe your tires, you will get the answer.
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How to Read Tire Date Codes?Whether you are financing your tires or purchasing them, it is important to understand how to read tire date codes. The numbers are present on tires only. You just need to know how to get them. You might have difficulties while reading codes on old tires. Keep reading to know how old your tire is.
Ways to Get Your Tires DOT NumberLook at all the sides of the tires. There are a bunch of numbers and letters. It might seem like a jumble. But this is helpful information about the tire. Find the number that starts with DOT and followed by ten to twelve series. This code will reveal a lot of things about your tires. You will know the tire size, year, and place of the manufacturing with the unique code of the manufacturer. You can also rent a wheel payments to know more about tires. Once you rent a tire payments, you will not have to be bothered about the manufacturing year. They will take care of this. You just need to look for a rent a wheel return policy to make it more beneficial for you.
Remember that the last four digits of the code are the date the tire was manufactured. You can check the first two digits of the DOT code to know the week of the manufacturing. The last two digits will reveal the manufacturing year. For instance, when it was written in 0203, the manufacturing year was 2003.
But it is a bit tricky to know the manufacturing year of tires manufactured before 2000.
You need to check the last three digits of the DOT code. Check the first two digits to know the week. For instance, when the last three digits read 022, you should understand that the tire was manufactured in the 2nd week of that year. You might be thinking about how to know the year. The year is the 2nd year of that decade. It is easy to get confused to know the decade. It might be harder to know the exact decade. There might be some other indications to know the year.
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What About the Incomplete DOT NumbersIncomplete DOT numbers mean the current DOT regulations demand the complete number to be written on one sidewall only. When you find a few digits on the opposite sidewall, you can check the other sidewall to find the complete DOT number.
Reading DOT Tire NumbersNow you know how to read tire date codes.
You can simply check at the sidewalls of tires to avoid any further confusion. Also, never lose your purchase receipt. If you do so, you might not get the warranty benefits. So, keep the receipts in a safe place and avoid any confusion by checking the DOT code. Whether you are interested in learning about wheel alignment or more about DOT numbers, our professionals here at Dan the Tire Man can answer your inquiries.
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Are you concerned about the age of your tires?
This quick guide will help you find the manufacture date of your tire and understand how Tires Easy handles tire age based on the DOT Code. Keeping a record of your tires and understanding their age will help you save money on repairs and take proper care of your vehicle.
To find your tires’ age, you need to locate the DOT Date Code on the tire.
This symbol indicates the tire manufacturer’s compliance with the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) safety standards. It tells you who manufactured the tire, where it was made, and other tracking information. Plus, it indicates that the tire has passed the Department of Transportation’s testing and NHTSA manufacturer requirements.
The raised numbers of the DOT Code are placed together and often enclosed in a raised oval. The first two numbers are the week the tire was manufactured. In the example below, 35 stands for “week 35.” The second two numbers are the year the tire was manufactured. In the image below, we see the 07, indicating the tire was build in 2007. This particular tire was made in the 35th week of 2007.
On tires that were manufactured in 2000 and after, the last four digits indicate the week and year the tire was produced. The first two digits identify the week and the second two identify the year.
It’s not always easy to find the tire DOT code. There aren’t regulations on where the manufacturer has to place the information, so you may need to look at multiple sides of your tires before you can find the numbers. However, the identification information is usually on the inner sidewall of tires.
At Tires Easy, we believe that the tire warranty should begin from the date of purchase, not the DOT Code. If you purchase new tires today, and the DOT Code was a year ago, your warranty will still begin on the purchase date, not the manufacture date of the tire.
If for any reason you are uncomfortable with the age of your tires after looking at the DOT Date code, please call us and we can quickly provide you with a return under our 45 day return policy.
Just because you buy “new” tires doesn’t mean they were actually made recently.
It can take a while for tires to reach tire retailers after being shipped from the manufacturer. Checking your tires’ DOT Date Code will tell you when they were made and how long they may have been stored. It is important to know that tires are often for months or years at a time, so your tire’s DOT code might not be in the same year you bought the tires, and that’s not a concern.
At Tires Easy, we take tire protection VERY seriously. Once the tires reach us, they are moved into Tires Easy’s industrial tire warehouses to ensure proper storage and prevent exposure to seasonal weather conditions. Our storage locations are cool, climate-controlled, and dry, preventing any premature aging or damage. Tire aging can be rapidly accelerated by poor storage conditions, so you should be sure the tires you purchase have been properly stored.
A general consensus from various tire industry associations around the world is that tires have a useful service life of six to ten years.
As technology changes, there are more materials, and combinations of comounds, to extend tire life and extend wear. At Tires Easy, we like to err on the side of caution and only sell tires that are seven years old and under. If you consider that the average driver travels 15,000 miles per year, most tires need to be replaced in 4 years. If your tires were a few years old when purchasing, you would still be well within the accepted tire age range. This is especially true if the tires receive the proper amount of care and maintenance over the course of their lifetime.
Legally, you must replace your tires when the tread depth falls below 1.6 mm. Additionally, it’s recommended that you change summer tires at 3 mm and winter tires at 4 mm tread depth. This keeps your tires at optimal levels of safety.
When your tires reach seven years of age, we recommend that you consider replacing them. Even if the tires look new, it is best to have them inspected by a professional tire installer, so they can properly advise on the safety of the tires moving forward.
Spare tires should be checked and replaced as well.
No matter how old the tires are when you buy them, the most important aspect of tire safety is regular maintenance and inspection. According to the The Rubber Manufacturer’s Association of America and the Tire & Rubber Association of Canada.
“Since service and storage conditions vary widely, accurately predicting the service life of any specific tire based on calendar age is not possible.”
For this reason, there is no specific limitation on the age of the tire when it is sold based on its DOT Code.
1. In terms of the DOT Date Code, some might assume that the number states when the tire was approved. On the contrary, the DOT symbol by itself simply indicates that the tire is approved by the Department of Transportation to be legally used on the road. The Date Code is when the tire was manufactured (not when it was approved).
2. You might also have heard that you should only buy tires that have a DOT code within the current year.
As we mentioned earlier, this is often not the case with many tires simply because it takes time for the tire to reach the United States from the manufacturer. As long as the tires have been stored properly, they will be in excellent condition, even if the DOT Date code is a couple of years old.
When stored properly and protected from the elements, tires age quite slowly. The Rubber Manufacturers Association has said there’s no way to put a date on when tires actually “expire.” There are too many factors that impact the true age of a tire.
To help prolong the life of a tire, tire retailers will:
While these are the main contributors to excessive tire aging, it would still take years of exposure in the hottest, wettest, and driest climates for the first signs of tire aging to appear.
Tires are durable, and if they’re showing signs of damage within the first few years, it’s a sign of poor quality. Whitening of the rubber and shallow hairline cracks in the upper or lower sidewall may be an indication of UV and heat damage, but these symptoms aren’t issues you commonly see in new tires.
Sidewall cracking due to UV rays
Yes, the rubber gets hard over time as the tire loses its elasticity. This happens regardless of how much you use your tires over the course of the years.
Every tire has a birthday, and many tires will not be sold 7 years later. However, since some tires don’t technically become unsafe until a decade after they’re produced, the best advice is to have your tire checked by a professional to make sure they are safe for continued driving.
If you have any questions about your tire’s DOT Code or tire age in general, get in contact and let us assist you!
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On the sidewall of any tire there are more inscriptions and drawings than free space. Each icon has its own function, but it is not always possible to reveal its ins and outs without a hint. In addition, this year a completely new marking has appeared.
The tire's make and model are usually printed in the largest font. It is understandable: this is what the buyer pecks at. It is interesting that the same data in encrypted form is also on the protector - in the form of thin colored stripes. They are needed in order to be able to identify the rubber lying in the warehouse, because only its working surface is in the field of view of the workers.
The size is a mystery for many. It seems that there are no problems in ordinary life: what numbers are indicated on the sidewall of a regular tire, with such you need to buy a winter or summer one to replace a worn one.
But what exactly do they mean? For example, take the index 225/50 R17 98 N on a Continental tire.
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Additional characters may be assigned to the tire model name. For example, SUV means focusing on crossovers and SUVs (reinforced sidewall, large load capacity), C - on commercial vehicles (from the English cargo, “cargo”). It happens that a tire is welded specifically for a particular automaker and is intended for primary assembly on the conveyor or sale through its official dealers. So, at Continental, the indices A0 and R01 are reserved for Audi, J for Jaguar, N0, N1, N2 for Porsche, M0, M01 for Mercedes.
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Quite often, information about the maximum load and maximum pressure is put on the tire in plain text, without allegorical codes and pictograms. Look for the phrases Max load and Max pressure respectively.
Tires with reinforced sidewalls are gaining popularity around the world, allowing you to drive several tens of kilometers after losing pressure. Usually they simply write Run Flat, although there are also original designations. So, the Continental concern puts the SSR marking on puncture-resistant models.
European tire companies' websites list rubber labels for noise, efficiency and environmental friendliness. The first is indicated by a number from 1 (quiet) to 3 (loud). Wet grip coefficient and fuel consumption coefficient is a letter from A (best) to G (worst). In Russia, such a classification is not yet applied.
One of the key parameters is the date of manufacture of the tire. You should also look at it when buying a new set, not to mention a used one. It is not recommended to ride tires for more than five to six years from the date of issue, although it is not prohibited either by law or by the manufacturers themselves. The date of manufacture is indicated by four digits in an oval.
The first two are a week, the second two are a year. For example, 3119stands for "boil" of the 31st week of 2019.
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The word Rotation is mandatory on both sides of directional models. The arrow located next to it will tell you the direction of rotation of the wheel when the car moves forward.
Continental tires are marked with TWI for critical tread wear marks. On summer models, they are supplemented with indicators with cross and drop marks. They signal that the rubber has not yet reached the minimum tread height, but it is no longer enough to feel confident in the rain.
There are also VAI indicators on the tread. They are applied symmetrically in the left and right shoulder areas. With the correct installation of the wheel, they change as the rubber wears in exactly the same way. Discrepancies - a reason to call on the wheel alignment stand.
So far, the technology is applied only on truck tires.
Compulsory labeling of tires is introduced in Russia in order to combat "gray" deliveries. The unique Data Matrix code is highly secure and readable through several layers of packaging. It is declared that it cannot be faked or copied, and the information sewn into it is readable even if it is partially damaged. The code can be decrypted by each buyer. To do this, it must be scanned with a special mobile application "Honest Sign". After that, information about the manufacturer and importer, the characteristics of the product, the date of putting into circulation in Russia will be displayed on the gadget's screen.
Mandatory marking introduced from November 1, 2020. From this day on, the production, import to Russia and purchase from manufacturers and importers of rubber without marks of the established sample are prohibited. Since December 15, the entire circulation of unmarked tires has been banned.
Warehouse balances were allowed to be tagged until March 1, 2021.
Continental has been at the forefront of technology testing in Russia and is fully prepared for its implementation. During 2019, he, along with hundreds of other companies from different industries in our country, generated thousands of codes, working out the system. Moreover, on a global scale, the company has already prepared solutions for integrating electronic chips into tires, which allow monitoring their condition, including the degree of wear.
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The strike of the owners and employees of some Wildberries pick-up points (POPs) that broke out in the middle of last week opened the backstage of Russian marketplaces for many. The conflict arose because of the new system of fines. But even earlier, pickup point owners complained about changes in the system of payment and deductions, which reduced their profit by an average of 30%. On March 16, the marketplace temporarily froze the mechanism for charging off partner pickup points and their managers in order to sort out all disputable situations and improve the arbitration service.
The company's press service also reported that over 10,000 incorrect fines were cancelled.
In the meantime, it became known that the Ministry of Labor and the Prosecutor General's Office paid close attention to the problem. A commission was also urgently created to resolve issues between marketplaces and partners of pickup points based on Opora Rossii.
The press service of Wildberries did not respond to the request of the editors to comment on the situation.
INFOline CEO Ivan Fedyakov notes that all these events may have a negative impact on the company itself, but when you see how the authorities react to them, it becomes clear how much regulators do not understand how marketplaces work.
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other legal entities.There is no relationship between an employee and a subordinate here, so checks under the current labor legislation are meaningless.Due to the fact that the points work as individual entrepreneurs, couriers are registered as self-employed or individual entrepreneurs, logistics services are provided by independent companies, marketplaces significantly save on taxes and fees associated with the wage fund," he explains.
The expert adds that if all "intermediaries" and "partners" were registered directly as employees, then the economy of the largest marketplaces simply would not converge.
The need for more precise regulation of the online trading market is long overdue. But while the legislative base is not too developed.
Last year, the government of the Russian Federation adopted changes that provide for the rules for labeling light industry products for marketplaces. Online players were equated with other turnover participants in terms of mandatory product labeling. This also affected those who positioned themselves as a company providing exclusively logistics services. The changes came into effect on March 1.
Alexander Svashenko, Senior Associate in Litigation and Arbitration Practice at EPAM Law Office, adds that marketplaces that accept goods to their warehouse, and not manufacturers or importers, will be responsible for low-quality, unmarked or counterfeit products.
Thus, the problem was eliminated when the buyer had to apply not to the marketplace, but to a specific seller to recover damages caused by erroneous or inaccurate information about the purchased product.
Ilya Kretov, director of the online sales growth platform Tinkoff eCommerce, clarifies that this innovation will result in additional costs for marketplaces, as they will need to take on new functions. The new costs of the sites will inevitably pass on to the sellers, and then to the final buyers.
Ozon said that according to their rules, all products in the categories of shoes, clothes, perfumes, tires and tyres, dairy products, photographic equipment should have labeling. If the code is not readable on the product, then it will not be able to be placed in the Ozon warehouse, which means that such product will not be available for purchase.
"The buyer can check the received goods for legality using the "Honest Sign" application. Ozon does not provide penalties for the absence or incorrect marking of goods: such items will not be accepted to the marketplace warehouse.
In addition, we simplify the process of marking in the personal account seller and help prepare the necessary documents," the company said.
Goods without marking will also not be able to be sold from Yandex.Market warehouses. At the same time, the company believes that additional regulation will be redundant. "A large number of small and medium-sized businesses are developing around marketplaces, and not only in terms of trade. Excessive regulation can negatively affect the development of entrepreneurship in Russia. Now self-regulation tools are developing in the field of e-commerce, and this is the most effective mechanism for balancing the interests of all players ", - said the press service of Yandex.Market.
The activity of marketplaces was also affected by the fact that parallel imports of goods were allowed last year. "The sale of goods through parallel imports has increased prices (from 5 to 50%) and the share of counterfeit products presented under the guise of parallel imports.
Currently, the State Duma is considering a bill to curb abuse of dominant position by owners of digital platforms. The bill is aimed at protecting consumer rights from abuse by digital monopolies and to improve antimonopoly regulation in relation to marketplaces,” says Alexander Svashenko.
Polina Fiofilova, head of the commercial real estate department at KNRU, notices that there are more and more pickup points in St. Petersburg. The impetus for this was the transition of Russians to the purchase of many goods via the Internet. There is a big three players - Ozon, Yandex.Market and Wildberries. At the same time, Wildberries works directly and on a franchise basis, while Ozon works through partners.
Ilya Kretov says that, according to their data, in 2022 the number of purchases of Russians on marketplaces increased by 43%. By the beginning of 2023, these platforms account for 8.5% of the total amount of all spending (online and offline), which is 1.
5 times more than a year earlier.
"The number of sellers increased by 1.5 times in the fourth quarter of 2022. More and more online entrepreneurs start trading on several marketplaces at once in order to reach the target audience as much as possible. Our analytics show that with the entry to each new marketplace, business income on average grow by 2-3 times per year. Wildberries and Ozon, of course, are the largest players, together selling about 70% of all online orders, "adds the expert.
The press service of Ozon said that their assortment is formed by more than 180 thousand sellers, of which more than 90 thousand took to the court last year. For the past two years, Russians have been transferring purchases of basic goods to online. In 2022, the top most popular items on Ozon are already 100% FMCG. Over the past year, the company has increased the network of pickup points by almost a third - now they have over 17 thousand points in the country.
"It's too early to talk about the saturation of the market with pickup points, the online market is growing.
