6 year old tyres...time to change them ?

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The tyres on my bangernomic 106 are as far as i can tell 6 years old. Still plenty of tred on them, at the mileage i do they'll last another year or more.

Still, can you trust a tyre thats been on the rim for 6 years ?

Bear in mind the watchword of buying this car was to spend the minimum on motoring for a few years while doing the house up, would keeping them on be a false economy ?
 
Do they show any signs of cracking on the sidewalls? If not and you dont crave the better grip a new tyre design will give then, why worry?

The UK min tread is 1.6mm but these days many "official" sources say 3mm is a good change time!

With your economic goals, i guess the 3mm bit will not really matter!
 
No obvious signs of cracking or splitting, but yes 6 years of being outside including a year where it only did around 500 miles sitting on the drive the rest of the time has me thinking i should play it safe.

Saving money is all well and good (and its saved me the thick end of 5k over what i would have spent over 2 years normally) but its not worth one going pop when braking hard.

Looking on blackcircles i can get them done for £40 quid a corner with decent tyres.
 
Firestar_3x said:
Because the metal bands inside the tyre corrode and break up over time, you can't see this from the outside..
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A good point but if the car is used often, I dont see that as a issue!

Many cars have tyres over that age stll on them!, its also about how the rubber has been exposed to the sun, but dont get me wrong, i spend a fortune on top of the range tyres, as i use my car for its potential and i am all to aware most cars only have about a A4 sized rubber contact patch with the road!

I use Bridgestone RE050A tyres incase you are a F430 fan!
 
Well use your common sense. 6 years is a long time but it depends still on the mileage it's done. Get some new ones anyway if you can and be sorted and safe.
 
Sin_Chase said:
Same as what I use, if you are a S2000 fan? :confused:
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I have a FN2 CTR but i used RE050A since their launch even on my EP3 CTR, its a shame uk tax has killed of the S2K in effect and Honda are to limp to go forced induction currently!

They will have to change or leave the hot hatch market IMO, all they need to do is develope a high rev version!
 
The tyre will have a code on them that tells you date of manufacture. it's week/ear something like 23/04 would be 23rd week 2004.

On one hand they maybe still be in good condition with good tread and no cracking etc. On the other hand new set of tyres in 6 years can hardly be sniffed at.
 
As offtopic as it is tax has not killed off the S2000. The fact Honda no longer produce it has. If the tax band dictates whether you buy an S2000 or not then it really is not the car for you.
 
Sin_Chase said:
As offtopic as it is tax has not killed off the S2000. The fact Honda no longer produce it has. If the tax band dictates whether you buy an S2000 or not then it really is not the car for you.
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Agreed off topic, Honda discontinued the production as it was inefficient and sales had become sluggish.

At what was G band 2 seater in the Uk tax system, and over a decade old design and technology was fundemental.

The engine was still for N/A top dollar, just it wasnt saleable. No one who compares a 238BHP S2K to a 300 BHP Z4 is realy going to buy a honda.

The S2K had its time, that time has passed just like the Walkman and VHS has!
 
Part of the reason the S2000 never succeeded as well as it could (should) have was the market in which it was placed. It was never quite as top end as the Boxster but nowhere near as cheap as the MX5.

You just cannot compare much to the S2000 when you look at the actual reasons for buying. You compromise on some things with the Honda and if ultimate refinement and interior plushness is your bag then it's not going to tick your boxes.

I am not quite sure what you mean by production being inefficient, sales were by no means sluggish. The GT100 rollout was lapped up rather pronto and buyers were having troubles finding the last 2009 new models. It's a bit of a niche market yes but Honda's reasoning for stopping the car were not because it was a failed product. It was never designed to be adopted by the mass market. It was a gift to itself.

The F20C lineup of awards is testament to its success and even by todays standards is a cracking unit. It's time has not passed, because it never came. It's just not that sort of car.
 
In the Uk and much of the world the S2K was inefficient, no one is donouncng the F20C output etc, but in terms of efficientcy is sucks in this day and age.

For a car to produce about 120BHP/LTR capacity N/A is still bloody great, its just inefficient in doing so.

The K20A and K20Z4 are just as bad, Honda do great, but for comparison engines (marketed) forced induction engines, they are trailing, as example, in a world of LCD flatscreen who cares about a CRT television?

Honda in N/A form has the cream of the crop but in real world terms thaey are so far off!

In the uk we have a Ford unit that that produces little more co2 for 301BHP (and for several years opel/vauxhall have produced a engine with 240BHP with less than 200g/km emmisions.

I try and keep it real but N/a is dead unless someone goes forward big tiime!

Its time Honda dropped not just the S2K but N/A, if they are that clever they will produce a high revving, more efficient engine!
 
Sports cars are not aimed at being in "green friendly" co2 brackets and it's really a non-issue for the average sports roaster buyer.

You have to be seriously mis-guided to want to have an S2000 (for example) and not buy one because of its co2 output. I do not even know what mine is, quite frankly, I could not care less! :D

I wish you would clarify efficiency because it seems you are confusing it with emissions. Anyway, this is farrrr offtopic and moot considering both the NSX and S2000 are no longer produced.
 
I threw away the fronts on the Elise in Janurary as they were 5 years old (still had just over 2mm tread left)

The difference with the new tyres (same Yoko Advan Neovas) is night & day. Granted they are softer rubber than 'normal tyres', so the difference is going to be more noticeable. Could definitely tell the old ones had gone hard though.
 
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