[T3] Tire Date Code

[Jim Adney]

On 5 Feb 2012 at 13:11, Gary Forsmo wrote:

> Jim A. wrote:

> Also, the date marking on tires just has the last digit of the year,
> so an 8 there could mean '78, '88, or '98, or did this get changed in
> the last few years?
> 
> Yep Jim, changed.
> 
> Since 1/1/2000 tires have a 4 digit code.  Ala 4600.  That tire was
> produced in the 46th week of 2000.  A newer tire that has a code 0112 was
> manufactured in week 1 of 2012.  This system is meant to identify tire age
> for 100 years.

Okay, that's what I was afraid of. I don't think any of my Type 3s 
have tires with 4 digit date codes....

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Jim Adney, jadney at vwtype3.org
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