Thread: How old are the tyres on your Land Rover? (POLL)

I have got a set of Michelin LTX MS tyres on my County that have done 110,000kms and still have 4mm of legal tread left! Unfortunately they are almost 10 years old so i will be replacing them soon.

Got a brand new, unused mitchalin spare from 1990 when it was new. It is on a rim that has never been on a car [unless of course the previous owner purchased a brandnew matching rim and tyre] the 4 road tyres were new when I got the RRC, but of course I do not know how long these road tyres were on the shelf before they were put on car. Have at home, on sunraysia rims, a pair of silver stone tyres that have been on 3 different RRC fronts and are not worn out yet. they would be about 4-6 years old. Might reuse these on the rear later.

Not quite 3,,,
and yep, the spare on BUB002 is brand new-never-seen-tar,, so that makes it around TEN years old,,
and no,, I'm not running out to buy another new one,,,

it has had this cover on it since new(I put the LR bit on top of the dealers logo--)

well all I can say is after reading the mileage you guys get from non coopers tyres that their brag of 90k is nothing. I personally have put over 90k on two sets of venturers (each) and now look like doing same with geolanders and I run 46psi unless I'm in the paddocks. the coopers guys argued like hell with me at the recent gold coast 4wd show about my tyre pressures and mileage I have been getting......but theyre just young fellas and know it all, hahaha

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

the spare on BUB002 is brand new-never-seen-tar,, so that makes it around TEN years old,,
and no,, I'm not running out to buy another new one,,,

You just made me remember that in the shed I have a 235/85-16 BFG mud terrain with 80-90% tread. When I bought my Trac Edges in 1996 I bought it 2nd hand as a spare!!! So it is over 13 years old!!! I only used it once, when I had a blowout on one of my (2yo at the time) Trac Edges.

about an hour old! The bfg's removed today were nearly 2 years & 40k old - not a good result!

I recently purchased a set of factory alloys for my 98 TDi Disco, whereby the steel rims became a spare set to fit some BFG AT's onto in good time when I have the money.
Anyways the tires that came with the alloys, according to the codes, are 12-13 years old. They're Michelin XPC's, and have at least 80% left in them. They also don't seem that hard, are lovely and quiet, and are fine in the wet and on bitumen as far as I can tell. At this stage I've been using them as my town tyres, knowing that I will have to use the steelies with yet to be purchased BFG's for any high speed and off road work.
My question is, if I have a prang, will the insurance company be likely to check the tyre age, or simply note that the tyres look almost new as far as the tread goes and then be ok with that?

Originally Posted by Ricey

about an hour old! The bfg's removed today were nearly 2 years & 40k old - not a good result!

Finally ! someone gets similar (or worse) km out of a set than me

We must be hard bastards, Ricey.