It all goes back to the Ford Explorer/Firestone tire rollover issues from 1997 to 2001, which resulted in stricter tire laws across the country. However, major car manufacturers including Audi, BMW, Buick, Dodge, Ford, Jeep, Mercedes Benz, Toyota and VW now recommend on their websites and in owner handbooks that tires be replaced after six years.Īs a result, many tire chains won’t touch seven-year-old tires because of liability issues. So we researched both federal and state tire statutes and found there is no such law. “That they cannot fix and put back on a tire that’s over six years old.” The salesman told me it was a new law,” she said. “I asked what was the reason, and they told me because my car tire was over six years old.
“It was in the center, so I knew it wasn’t near any sidewall.” Londner knew a tire near a sidewall would likely make it unrepairable.īut even though it was in the “fixable” area of the tire, she said, the tire shop refused to touch it. “It looked like a flat roof nail was stuck in it,” she said.
Londner thought repairing her old one would be no problem. Linda Londner showed us the $167 new tire she had to buy after running over a nail near her home in Anderson Township, Ohio. One woman says a local tire shop flat out refused to touch her tires, and her experience should be a warning to everyone with tires that are a few years old. Have a set of tires on your car that still have plenty of tread left, but are a few years old? More and more car owners are learning their car’s tires are too old to be patched, rotated or even balanced anymore.
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