How to Read a Tire's Hidden Expiration Date

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Preview โ€” The Goal

๐ŸŽฏ The Goal: A tire with deep, healthy-looking tread can still be a blowout waiting to happen โ€” because rubber ages even when it barely rolls. Every tire has a manufacture date stamped right on the sidewall, and almost nobody knows how to read it. Sixty seconds in your driveway tells you whether you're driving on fresh rubber or a six-year-old time bomb โ€” and protects you from the used-tire trick where 'like new' means 'old but unworn.'