Re: Bias or Radial?
Date code is important, especially on seldom used tires. Cracking has always been my prime concern, having lost a tire as a child out with dad on a fishing trip. The tire was weathered pretty good and it just started throwing tread (on the trip home) and finally the sidewall failed.
I have a set of Chinese tires on my 16' tandem flatbed, seldom used, kept under cover, which are doing very well. Seem to be resisting cracking. Have had them for about 3 years now.
I have a tractor with new tires that had an old date code and after a couple of years, sitting under a shed, out of the sun, and used regularly, you'd think I had had them 10 years (from all the weather cracking) whereas on another tractor with fresh tires, used and kept under the same conditions, they still look new.
Mark