My 05RYP has 25,400 miles on it and is still running on the original Bridgestones. I've put about 1000mi on it since purchasing it a few months ago. The tires still grip well, but under harder acceleration, the tail shimmies quite a bit. There's probably another 10000 mi of tread left but as a matter of safety the 15yo tires are getting replaced with some sticky Michelin Pilot Sport 4S.

Anybody else running the original tires?

 

Not surprised about the shimmy- the rears don’t last 24k with any kind of heavy foot
I replaced the original Bstones with same spec on my 06

 

Those tires are 14 years old!

Virtually every tire manufacturer recommends replacing the tires at least every 7-10 years regardless of mileage. They slowly disintegrate with time.

In fact, I couldn’t even find a local tire installer (Goodyear, Firestone, NTB, independent shops) who would mount my extra tires because the date code on them was more than 5 years old.

 

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I'm surprised you kept driving on them at that age! If you look at the date on the actual tire it may in fact be older than 14 years!

 

The answer should be no one.

 

I have 45000 km on my car, and I'm ready to install my fifth set of rears and fourth set of fronts. No worries that I'll have to throw out tires because of age!

 

Probably some of the cars with next to no miles but still a safety concern if you were going to drive more regularly. When I bought my car 8ish years ago it had the original tires but the rears were shot and the car only had 19k miles on it. Specifically the inner half was bald on the rears. I would not be at all surprised if that was the same case on yours. The outside edge still looked pretty good at first glance on mine.

 

My Bridgestones 002 were cracked in 5 yrs of use ,<2nd car of 3 >maybe 30k miles,
on inner wall only. 98 civic. handled bad,could not figure it out as tread was great !!

 

Have a set of 30 year old new tyres for a 1990 Lotus Esprit, Goodyear Eagle NCTs
needs a good home

 

2 words.
IN.
SANE.
darcy