Thread: 20" Nitto Terra Grapplers

Terry

Sounds like your expected by some to pay more for your tyres even though they were purchased and fitted in an Australian Store.

Please keep the reviews coming.

Cheers

That might be the case but the DOT number on the tyres is the giveaway.

I called a local company to check on Nitto for a client today and they confirmed that they were parallel from America but they declined to answer my question on the build date of the tyres.

Do you know how to read the DOT number of the Tyre?

Would you be annoyed if you found out the Tyre was already 12, 18 or more months old?

There's a certain level of deception that occurs with parallel imports and it's just an erk that bugs me.

@ Chuck Norris, just because the Tyre was purchased in an Australian store doesn't mean it was designed for our conditions, some of these tyres are coming out of Canada and they're a softer compound, would you care if you didn't get what you thought you were buying?

Stupid auto correct, not chuck Norris

Originally Posted by MitchellBros4x4

Stupid auto correct, not chuck Norris

Lucky for you ....

Originally Posted by TerryO

They advertise their tyres as being 2013 build.

Don't they have a 4-digit manufacturing date code being 2 for the year followed by 2 for the week number?

At $260 each fitted seriously I don't care if they wear out prematurely. I actually prefer to change tyres on a regular basis anyway.

Regarding build dates, do I care if the tyres are 6 months old or two years old by the time I buy them? The answer is no I don't, I will wear them out or have moved them on long before they get to the five years old mark that most people like to talk about.
For your information I'm in Motorsport, in actual fact I own and run a national motorcycle championship series that also has control tyres in several of the classes, so I have a pretty good idea about tyres and how they age and what can potentially go wrong and what is hype and what is often repeated old wives tails.

When I get a chance and have the correct classes on I will look for the build date. I'm taking it that like with most build dates on tyres it is just about the smallest marking that they put anywhere on a tyre and the hardest to find and see.

Originally Posted by TerryO

I'm taking it that like with most build dates on tyres it is just about the smallest marking that they put anywhere on a tyre and the hardest to find and see.

I've found them to be quite obvious as indented numbers on an indented oval patch presumably because the numbers have to be changed every week (hence probably every use) so aren't part of the main mould.

I wondered about some relatively cheap Contis I purchased recently from a tyre outlet in western Sydney but was pleased to find they were not old stock. I also recently purchased some imported farm equipment tyres that had been fitted to rims but never used that were made in 2002 and 2005. These tyres had obviously been well stored as they show no signs of perishing and still smell like new tyres.