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How Old Are My Tires?

Rubber degrades with age, whatever the tread looks like. Enter your DOT code and find out where yours stand.

Find DOT on the tire sidewall followed by a run of letters and numbers. You want the last four digits. Paste the whole code if you like — we'll take the end of it.

Why It Matters

Tread Depth Doesn't Tell You Everything

Most people judge a tire by how much tread is left. That tells you about grip in the wet — it tells you nothing about the condition of the rubber holding it together.

Rubber hardens and develops fine cracks as it ages, whether the car is driven daily or sits in a garage. A tire with plenty of tread that's twelve years old is not a good tire. This catches people out most often on spare tires, low-mileage classics, and cars bought used where one replacement tire is years older than the rest.

Las Vegas makes it worse. Sustained heat and UV exposure age rubber faster than a temperate climate does. A tire that might see ten years somewhere mild has a harder life sitting on 115°F asphalt.