Tyres age even when they are doing nothing, and it is worth understanding because it changes what you buy for a car that does very little mileage. The compound in a tyre contains oils and waxes that keep it flexible, and those migrate out over the years regardless of whether the wheel is turning. Sunlight and heat accelerate it, and so does the ozone that ordinary air contains. The result is rubber that is harder, less able to key into a wet road, and more prone to cracking. That is why a nine year old tyre with five millimetres of tread is not a good tyre.
For a car doing two or three thousand miles a year, this changes the arithmetic entirely. There is little point paying for a long life compound when the set will be aged out long before it is worn out, and the sensible purchase is a mid-range tyre with good wet grip that you expect to replace on age rather than on tread. It is one of the few situations where spending less is genuinely the better decision. We read date codes on all four whenever we are at a car around Egham and tell you honestly where in their life they are.
Give us the size and we will tell you what we can bring, which is the honest way round. The size is moulded into the sidewall, something like 205/55 R16 91V, and the letters at the end matter as much as the numbers. Old tyres leave Thorpe, Pooley Green and Surrey with us, every time. You watch it happen in Virginia Water, or at the kerb in Englefield Green.
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There are plenty of low mileage cars around Egham that will age their tyres out long before they wear them out, and for those the usual advice about buying for longevity is simply wrong. Wet grip and a sensible price is the better combination. We read the date codes on all four whenever we visit, so you know where in their life your set actually is.
The tread says the tyre has years left and the compound says otherwise. Age is the limiting factor on a low mileage car and depth tells you very little about it.
If a set will be aged out before it is worn out, paying for a hard wearing compound buys nothing. Wet grip is where the money should go instead.
Fine cracks at the base of the grooves and in the sidewall are the compound having gone brittle. It is the visible end of a process that started years earlier.
Not on a fixed date, but they age. The oils that keep the compound flexible migrate out over years, leaving rubber that is harder and less capable in the wet.
Something with good wet grip that you expect to replace on age rather than tread. Paying for longevity buys nothing if the set ages out first.
The four digit code in an oval on the sidewall, week then year. We read it out on all four whenever we are at the car.
Yes, across Egham Town, Englefield Green, Egham Hythe, Thorpe and Pooley Green, balanced and torqued at the vehicle.
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