Selling an "old" date coded tire is "criminal." Those of you who don't belive may have never had a blown out tire at high speed, it can be quite devastating to your health, much less the equipment vehicle the tires are mounted on. The age issue is because tires will eventually dry out. On a passenger car where you will drive it about 12-15 kmiles a year, you will normally wear the tire out before the date issue is a problem IF you got relatively new ones to begin with...