Re: story about tyres on TV tonight

"Saab C900 Viggenist" <c900@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> Hi who else saw the TV story about tyre retailing tonight? I didn't get 
> all
> of it (wasn't home until it was part-way through) but I noticed a lot of
> talk about how we're all supposed to replace tyres after they're x
number 
> of
> years old, and if they are more than a few years old since manufacture
but
> not fitted to a car, or they're used tyres being re-sold, they shouldn't

> be
> sold if they're more than a few years old.
>
> The big problem with this is that if regulators start mandating that
tyres
> more than 5 years old have to be defected (regardless of how much
they're
> actually worn), where are all the rejected tyres going to go (recycling,
> landfill, elsewhere?), and why are we seeing this move all of a sudden?
> Seems like there's something sneaky going on...

It's not 'sneaky' at all. It's been known for a long time (decades) that 
tyre rubber hardens and becomes more brittle with age.

-- 
Kwyj.