Tires dated 2012 on a new 2021 Forester

[mmartin_tdc]

I am from the future.... just visiting.....

[Larry-NC]

Originally Posted by emm-dee

The second tire pix from wmtire (post #13) shows the 54th week of 2031, so tires can come from the future.

What planet in what galaxy has 54 weeks in a year?

[Learjet]

I see the plant code and the serial number...date code may be on the other side of the tire.

[wmtire]

Originally Posted by Qwkynuf

Or....the 43rd week of 2018.... one of those is probably it.

Originally Posted by kenandterry

There’s a bit of glare in the photo, but look closer, the final four digits are 4318

Exactly, it was made the 43rd week of 2018............ no Area 51 stuff here.

[FrankG]

From my understanding many tire sizes for use in the RV Coach segment have been in short supply. With that said it would not be surprising to me that the warehouses are cleaning out there back corners of old inventory.

I know "18" tires don't seam right on a "21" but one needs to look at the manufacturing date of the chasses.

[dahagen]

Originally Posted by mmartin_tdc

I am pretty sure that code is the 35 week of 2021

That would be sometime in September of this year.

[wmtire]

Originally Posted by FrankG

From my understanding many tire sizes for use in the RV Coach segment have been in short supply. With that said it would not be surprising to me that the warehouses are cleaning out there back corners of old inventory.



I know "18" tires don't seam right on a "21" but one needs to look at the manufacturing date of the chasses.

The op has not stated what year model tire they have. The 18 was from an example tire I posted and is off topic/hijack of the thread. My apologies for the confusion.

[Dirt Sifter]

This is almost as good as Monday at the Tire Shop.

[TitanMike]

Originally Posted by FrankG

From my understanding many tire sizes for use in the RV Coach segment have been in short supply. With that said it would not be surprising to me that the warehouses are cleaning out there back corners of old inventory.



I know "18" tires don't seam right on a "21" but one needs to look at the manufacturing date of the chasses.

Don't know about other companies warehouses but ours were all First In/First Out. Unless it was a real "oddball" there were no old tires in corners. We also transferred tires from whse to whse, all 6 of them, to make sure nothing got too old.

[frankraney]

Originally Posted by mmartin_tdc

I am pretty sure that code is the 35 week of 2021

How can it be manufactured in the future?

[Larry-NC]

Originally Posted by frankraney

How can it be manufactured in the future?

Frank, did you read Post #16 before posting?

[ehrlich4620]

Just make sure they are not tires made in China I have been told they have a name for them CHINA BOMBS

[BehindBars]

Originally Posted by ehrlich4620

Just make sure they are not tires made in China I have been told they have a name for them CHINA BOMBS

The OP last posted 6.5 days ago, and never did share their actual tire manufacture dates. Now the thread has regressed to a new low with China bomb talk, so this thread had clearly outlived it’s usefulness.

[Honest Abe]

Getting back on-track...
With so many tires being manufactured around the world, are these date-code numbers based upon Standard American Equivalents (SAE), Metric, or common-core mathematics? (How many weeks in a Metric year?)

[frankraney]

Originally Posted by Larry-NC

Frank, did you read Post #16 before posting?

I did. I was saying the same thing differently.

[Mechcondrid]

regardless of what year they actually are, its very simple why its allowed and "Acceptable" because its not illegal; old new stock is still new and can be sold as such, that it's sat somewhere for years as new stock is entirely irrelevant as far as the law is concerned.

[Mr. Dan]

Originally Posted by Mechcondrid

regardless of what year they actually are, its very simple why its allowed and "Acceptable" because its not illegal; old new stock is still new and can be sold as such, that it's sat somewhere for years as new stock is entirely irrelevant as far as the law is concerned.

I'm not sure this applies to the situation at hand. The OP's tires might have been manufactured around April Fool's day of this year since the OP has never posted the actual DOT code. See post #8.

[Mechcondrid]

Originally Posted by Mr. Dan

I'm not sure this applies to the situation at hand. The OP's tires might have been manufactured around April Fool's day of this year since the OP has never posted the actual DOT code. See post #8.

thats why i said regardless of what year, the point being as long as it is new and has never been sold to an end consumer then they can be sold as new with new trailer, vehicle, whatever.

so even if they are new or are 5 years old, its all the same as long as they haven't been sold or used before.

[Honest Abe]

If your year-model rig is 2021, Forest River probably bought the RV chassis from Ford in 2020 to start the coach build. The RV chassis that Ford sold to FR was probably built in 2018, then sold in 2019 (Check the VIN). Ford off-of-the-shelf or in-stock materials, including tires, were probably built on 2018-2019. My 2014 FR3 has a 2013 VIN. Your tires were probably about a year-old when bolted-onto the Ford RF chassis. Hope this may clarify some of your concerns.

[Jfkmk]

Originally Posted by Larry-NC

What planet in what galaxy has 54 weeks in a year?

It’s the new math. Don’t question it, just accept it.