If you look at your tire, you need to look for the letters D, O, T that will be followed by anywhere between 10 to 12 numbers after the letters D, O, T.
Those last four digits that follow D, O, T are going to give you the week and the year in which your tire was made. So let’s say it’s the second week in 2012. It would be 02012. It would be the four digits that you would see on your tire.
This is significant because a lot of people, when they go and they get replacement tires at Gerald’s or wherever it is you have your tires replaced, those tires could have been sitting there for three, four, five, six years. There’s no telling how long they’ve actually been on the shelf.
Whether you realize it or not, tires are just like anything else. If they sit around, they can dry rot and if they dry rot, then they’re more likely to explode.
If they’re more likely to explode, then your car is more likely to roll over and that can be a real issue and it can be a negligence issue on the person who installed your tire to begin with and on the manufacturer themselves. As a last thought, if the tire happens to be on your rear axle and that’s the one that actually explodes when you’re rolling down the road, that can be catastrophic because it has been show in studies that particularly on the rear axle, if you have a tire explode there, the car is likely to – the person – what you’re going to find is the person typically over corrects and then goes back the other way and then the car flips and the injuries that can result from that can be catastrophic.
If you’ve been in a single car accident, you’ve been injured, and you’re wondering what you can do about it, contact the Hartman Law Firm at (843) 300-7600 today!
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