Do I need tires?

[Tarsun2]

as stated above, they get harder as the years go on. even if a set of tires is only driven 100 miles a year; after a few years, they will be garbage... (even if they have full tread left.)

dry rot is also "un-safe"

the tires are your connection with the world in which you drive. Arguably one of the single most important aspects of a car.

yeah, you can drive the car with dry rotted tires. Sure, you can drive the car on bald tires. Of course the car will still go down the road with the belts showing. but thats not the point really, is it.

if youre keeping it, get a good set of tires. if youre trading it in, get a cheap set and slap 'em on there.

[Chuck E Ducky]

Not true, recent expiration date is an agreed upon date of 6 years from date of of manufacturing it switched over in 2000 from 10 years due to lawsuits (still debated and a gray area, really just a number you can lawsuit on). Regardless there is a manufacturing code on the sidewall that tells you how old the tire is. It’s easy to check yourself. Tires that sit for long periods of time exposed to UV light are the ones you have to watch for dry rot. Daily driven and properly rotated tires don’t suffer from dry rot. They never get old enough to do so before it’s time to replace them. Most tire failures comes from not keeping proper tire pressure ,alignment issues, or hitting something.

This is just BMW getting a Female customer in ther shop who just dropped a decent amount of money for a water pump service. Often One of the easiest WP replacement you can get with BMWs WP location you can do them in a driveway. But I’m sure they stoked her for a bunch and tried to get her to buy some marked up OEM tires and an alignment because you can’t do tires with out an alignment. I see this all the time. They try to play my wife not knowing she knows more then the average auto tec when I send cars in for service.

Regardless it’s easy to verify buy the manufacturing date on the sidewall. You can tell when a tire is bad just by looking at it. However I do like when customers come in want to remove there super expensive tires with half there life left then pay to get rid of them. My buddy’s drift car thanks you.

[Nish]

Are you insinuating that I dealer would try to upsell someone!?

[Chuck E Ducky]

They are the worst especially BMW because the majority of there clients can’t turn a wrench.

[cockerpunk]

if you care about having grip in the wet, get new tires.

[Challenger007]

Not true, recent expiration date is an agreed upon date of 6 years from date of of manufacturing it switched over in 2000 from 10 years due to lawsuits (still debated and a gray area, really just a number you can lawsuit on). Regardless there is a manufacturing code on the sidewall that tells you how old the tire is. It’s easy to check yourself. Tires that sit for long periods of time exposed to UV light are the ones you have to watch for dry rot. Daily driven and properly rotated tires don’t suffer from dry rot. They never get old enough to do so before it’s time to replace them. Most tire failures comes from not keeping proper tire pressure ,alignment issues, or hitting something.

This is just BMW getting a Female customer in ther shop who just dropped a decent amount of money for a water pump service. Often One of the easiest WP replacement you can get with BMWs WP location you can do them in a driveway. But I’m sure they stoked her for a bunch and tried to get her to buy some marked up OEM tires and an alignment because you can’t do tires with out an alignment. I see this all the time. They try to play my wife not knowing she knows more then the average auto tec when I send cars in for service.

Regardless it’s easy to verify buy the manufacturing date on the sidewall. You can tell when a tire is bad just by looking at it. However I do like when customers come in want to remove there super expensive tires with half there life left then pay to get rid of them. My buddy’s drift car thanks you.

Well said! After all, how many stereotypes there are about women. And not only at the expense of women. Many companies try to sell unnecessary services, taking advantage of the client's ignorance. So, on account of the question of the need to replace tires, I would contact a couple of workshops, and then I would already draw conclusions.

[Pumpytrilly1]

Can you post pictures of the tires and check different spots for tread depth?

[Cyberpyr8]

Not true, recent expiration date is an agreed upon date of 6 years from date of of manufacturing it switched over in 2000 from 10 years due to lawsuits (still debated and a gray area, really just a number you can lawsuit on). Regardless there is a manufacturing code on the sidewall that tells you how old the tire is. It’s easy to check yourself. Tires that sit for long periods of time exposed to UV light are the ones you have to watch for dry rot. Daily driven and properly rotated tires don’t suffer from dry rot. They never get old enough to do so before it’s time to replace them. Most tire failures comes from not keeping proper tire pressure ,alignment issues, or hitting something.

Wait, my tires from the 90's on my old MG should be replaced even though they have tread? I seriously have a close to 30 year old set of tires on my 79 MG. I am not driving it much these days and only taking it up and down the street to run the engine once a week or so. But they definitely could stand to be changed out.

My wife had a Lexus with a full size spare and I once took it in to get the oil changed and they checked the tire and freaked out. She had a flat at some point and I swapped the bad tire out with the spare (had never been used up until that point) and it was still on the car and they realized it was 11 years old! Needless to say they wouldn't touch it and told me I needed to get rid of it.

[Chuck E Ducky]

They may hold air and work but I certainly wouldn’t trust tires that old. They will last way longer then 10 years depending on conditions they are exposed to. But 30 years old is sketchy.

[MrKittyCatMeowFace]

Love the people selling a car from the 60s or something and they think that "ORIGINAL FACTORY TIRES" is a selling point. .

especially if the car has miles and isn't a barn find.

[Cunha]

Do whatever you want I have ran dirt track racing tires from 60's sprint cars on hot rods with my dad as recently as 15 years ago so they were about 40 years old at the time. On the highway.

Might blow up. Might die. Maybe.

Storage conditions make a big difference. The specific number of years are from lawyers. Kinda like the expiration date on your milk except that milk is for sure garbage 30 years after the expiration date and a tire might be okay.

And I know that these compounds can begin degrading as soon as they start existing.

Did the original poster ever post pictures of the BMW tires that were told to be replaced?

I wanna see em.