Buying Tires? Don't Be Fooled - Here's How To Tell How Old A Tire Really Is

Buying tires can be nerve-racking. You don't want to pay too much for them, but by the same token, you don't want to make a costly mistake either. You don't have to worry about it much when you're buying a new car. Ah, but if you're buying a used car and the previous owner is telling you he just put this brand new set of stickers on it for you, how can you tell if he's being honest? Thankfully, there's only one place you have to look to be sure.

The side of the tire casing can tell you a lot. In addition to the standard fare like the manufacturer name and the maximum air pressure, you can find a series of digits called the tire identification number (some people call this the tire serial number). You can usually find it embossed close to the inside of the rubber closest to the rim of the wheel. It will tell you a couple of things you need to know before you buy.

According to the United States Department of Transportation (DOT) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NTSA), all tires manufactured since the year 2000 must include a set of digits that allows people to determine the tire's age. Those digits are the last four digits of the identification number.

The first two digits (of those last four) represent the week of the year that the tire was produced. The last two digits in that sequence represent the year. So if you find the tire identification number and see the last four digits of "5107," you know that the tire was produced in week 51 (the week of Christmas) in the year 07 (2007, in this case).

If you can't find any tire identification number on the tires, or you the last 4 characters aren't numbers, you know that the tires must have been manufactured before the year 2000. And if you can't find the tire identification number, ask the seller to show it to you. Most reputable used car dealers will know exactly where it is.

It's important to be an informed consumer when spending significant sums of money. Knowing how old a set of tires really is can take some of the worry out of buying used tires or even buying a used car.

If you're looking for a quality set of tires for your car or truck, you can't do better than Cooper. Cooper Tires are the premier brand of tires on the American road and http://www.coopertiresfacts.com is the one place that can tell you everything you need to know before you buy. Regardless of how you drive, you can find everything you need to know about Cooper Tires online at Cooper Tires Facts. Drive Safely.

Should the US Debt Be Forgiven? I Believe So and Here's Why

Having a lot of debt is something I was always taught as a child to try and stay away from. I was often told when you have a lot of debt you can't do anything because you're strapped to your creditors. Sometimes I think somebody needs to tell the US government that because the United States debt is enormous to me. After watching the news networks cover stories on the national debt being $11 trillion dollars I find myself wondering is that even a number? This debt of ours alone propelled me to write this article on the national debt and to highlight rather this debt can be paid, why it's so large and could it ever just be forgiven.

Eleven trillion dollars to me sounds like an unreal number to me. When I was in New York City several months ago I walked across a building that had a running total of the US debt. It is astronomical. So I asked myself first of all could it ever be paid back? Personally I don't think it can, the number is so huge it just feels like that can't be paid back. Once I had my moment of feeling like that debt was never going to be paid I asked myself why and how did it get so large?

From some research I found I see a lot of our debt came from us borrowing so much money to finance our way of life and to pay for big programs such as healthcare, past wars and oil. All of those huge programs plus the enormous amounts of interest on billions and trillions of dollars all contributed to this huge debt I have found.

Since I firmly believe there is absolutely no way the United States can pay back $11 trillion dollars I then asked could it just all be forgiven? Not bankruptcy or anything just all be written off. I don't know what it would do to other economies but I just feel like that as an option to the US could help rid us of this debt allowing us to start producing great products around the world for people to buy and trade. This could be like a way for us to start over and to begin producing goods to be sold to the world again.

After borrowing so much over the years the United States now has a debt that I feel we will never pay back thus leaving me to believe that the only way the US can pay off this debt is for it to just be forgiven.

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