Age of "new" tires

mopowers said
Thanks guys. I'm glad it's not just me being picky. They're good guys and I take all of mine and my fiance's cars there for tires. We just bought a set for her Focus a couple months ago actually. I always pay cash too so they appreciate it. I'm pretty sure they'll make it right.

Yeah, that's the thing, this pickup only gets about 6000 miles a year max, so they'll age out long before they wear out. In fact, the tires I replaced were 'only' 6 yrs old and I happened to have one blow out last week. I only had 30k miles on that set.

Thanks again for the input. I appreciate it.

Seems like everything that is rubber, is outsourced to China, Taiwan, India, ect. Our good ol American rubber I've seen in pretty doggone good shape after 40 years or so (not speaking of tires), and I've seen this new stuff (even though these people don't have the regulations we have here at all) just produce garbage, that turns to crap, within a couple of years. I remember when I was younger running 20-year-old tires on cars. For a tire that new to blow out to me that's unheard of man that's just crazy