Been reading up, appears tyre rules world wide changed ~2000.
Tyres prior to 2000 can/maybe have a made date moulded into the side wall, but were hard to decipher.
From 2000 there is a string of codes ie "DOT XYZ ABC" then an oval cartouch with four numbers in it eg "4303"
This exact same number is on my front Pirreli's and indicates "43rd week of 2003" manufacture.
So the fronts are 15 years old - and here I was thinking they were not tooooo old.
The rears look really old, worn, cracking and have no code I can see, so me thinks they are ~19 years old.
Thanks MY081, the mustang had Pirrelis, as of today has four new ones - thru some deal she got thru work, but still dear.
Pirrelli's seem ok wet or dry but soft - she got 62,000 kms. (Manufacture date "0519" on these new ones).
Once upon a time you bought tyres and stored them to allow full cureing of the rubber, now a days they contain some rubber,
plastic, fabric, steel wires, polymids, silicon rocks, and only god knows what else, as a result it is now better to use them as fresh as possibl since they become hardened, ďevelope flat spots etc etc...
Tomorrow I'll sus out the shocks, they are bilstrin so are possibly OEM items, so could be up to 28yrs old.
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