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The local tyre shop refused to repair a puncture on my mate's trailer tyres which are 9 years old. So there are probably directives coming from head office to that effect. As tyres die from a variety of factors absolute safety on a vehicle can't be determined by age alone. Tyre shops would love a regulation banning old tyres so they could shift their stock of "new" 3-year-old tyres more quickly.
Having said that I have seen plenty of "good" tyres delaminate when driven past their use-by date. I would recommend not pushing a tyre to its load ratings when over 5 years old.
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well just got back from a beach trip, it was a 251km round trip with most of that on sand, and soft sand to as it was very busy up there, left full and filled it up at the same place, 27L of fuel back to full, now im happy with that:D and that was with alot of playing around in the soft sand to:D
that was with the frige full and camping gear for one person, so prity loaded up,
and allso got to say, glad to see so many defenders up there, :)
