Dirt Stockers

[wepsbee]

I have a set of dirt stockers I received with a car I just got.
Any chance these are still good. Great tread, looks good, not
sure how to find the date.

[Andy Bettencourt]

I have a set of dirt stockers I received with a car I just got.
Any chance these are still good. Great tread, looks good, not
sure how to find the date.

If they are 15", you don't want them. I will take them off your hands for you.

[Greg Amy]

Actually, they're pretty well past their "sell by" date. 15" Dirt Stockers haven't been made in, what, about 8 years? I bought "new" non-DS rain tires in 2006, so somewhere around then...IMO, even if those things were kept in a vacuum, sunlight-free, hermetically-sealed room, they won't be as good as new HO2s...they're better than treaded street tires, but not too much so.

Look for an insert in the sidewall of the tire, one side. You'll see a four digit number that specifies the week and year of manufacture. So something that say 3406 means it was made the 34th week of 2006.

GA

[SMac92]

I also have a set that came with my car when I bought it 3 years ago. Do you really want them, Andy?

Steven

[CRallo]

No Andy was just kidding, send them to the poor kid! (me) I'll even meet you at NJMP!

I have a set of DS's made in 2000 IIRC! LOL

[Charlie Broring]

I have a set of DS's with a late 90's date code. They have been carefully stored in bags, inside, when not in use since day one. They are still usable and were even on the car once or twice last year. I'm just startling to se some cracking between the treads and guys with new rain tires have been a little faster for a few years now, but they still work.

I've seen relatively new DS's that are kept outside on a trailer dry out and crack up in no time. Storage conditions are everything with those tires.

[SMac92]

No Andy was just kidding, send them to the poor kid! (me) I'll even meet you at NJMP!

I have a set of DS's made in 2000 IIRC! LOL

Wow, that's pretty old. I'm still a poor kid, but I'll be at NJMP for the MARRS race there. If you still want them by then, I'll be glad to hand them over. Toss in a couple bucks and I'll hand over the 15in steelies they're on too.

Steven

[CRallo]

Wow, that's pretty old. I'm still a poor kid, but I'll be at NJMP for the MARRS race there. If you still want them by then, I'll be glad to hand them over. Toss in a couple bucks and I'll hand over the 15in steelies they're on too.

Steven

old indeed! You da man! so are a couple other of y'all... I've been fortunate enough to live off scraps in the tire department for a while now

[Andy Bettencourt]

At a test day, I would run a couple laps on them to scrub them up and see what you have with a durometer. Those tires are amazing in the wet.

[JLawton]

. Those tires WERE amazing in the wet.

Fixed that.

I ran on way too old DS up unitl a couple of years ago. They were dangerous. I just didn't realize it until I got the new Hoosiers

[philstireservice]

RA-1Mod2.jpg

Here's a choice for the wet...

[mossaidis]

True. For some, the 205/50R15 Spec H20 will be a hard deal to pass up at $166/tire.

[jwasilko]

True. For some, the 205/50R15 Spec H20 will be a hard deal to pass up at $166/tire.

The photo is of a RA1. The Hoosier wet is in another league from the RA1 :-)

[philstireservice]

look closer at that RA-1 - it's different...

[philstireservice]

RA-1Mod1.jpg

look closer and compare

[mossaidis]

yeah... way deeper treads. In hind sight, I think the RA-1 would be a better mixed surface tire, i.e. intermediate.

[JS154]

I have a set of shaved Kumho W710 in size w710 215/40/16 for sale. Mounted but never run/ Stored carefully. I will have them with me at NHMS Rational is anyone needs rains.

[Matt93SE]

According to the SM guys that ran at TWS last week, the new Hoosier H2O is waaaay better than even the old dirt stockers. Those guys were doing absolutely crazy stuff on track and were still sticking.

OTOH, my ~2yr old HWETs were an absolute handful. Not sure if the tires dried out in the garage (wife won't let me store them in the house), or whether I just can't drive for sheit, but I was having all kinds of problems staying on track. the front running SM guys were 10sec a lap faster, and they're usually about the same time as me in the dry. oughta say something. (then again, the rain itself says a lot more about the drivers..)