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naz,Feb 27 2008, 11:32 PM Wrote:

mo_focus,Feb 28 2008, 01:43 AM Wrote:becareful when they say 2 winters, ask for the DOT date on them. if the tires are too old then they would have lost thier Silica and they would be very slippery on ice.

DOT date should tell you the year and week the tires were made.
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not all tires are made of a weird special compound.. some of them just have really aggressive tread design and 'normal' rubber.. but yea good call on the date of manuf
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Thanks for all your help.

I thought tires were good for 6 years. Do winter tires with silica "go bad" sooner?

As far as the comment about the Pirellis, I don’t know if mine are different than yours, but my car and the tires only have 13,000 Km and they suck in the snow, I constantly spin the tires from stop signs, red lights, etc even when there is very little snow or ice.

The car is not lowered or anything, so I should not have any issues with them fitting within the wheel wells.

What is wrong with 60 sidewalls, I think I prefer this to 15” wheels.

P.S. Does anyone know if I can mount these tires to my Ford 16” alloys?