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Nice to know information.
I bought a second set of Metzler 880's from a large retail store. They were on sale for less than what I can get them from my own suppliers for, so I bought them. This past summer (six months and a few thousand miles after installing they weather checked badly. After a little educations I found out why.
The tires were sold at discount because they were older than my 2003 America! There is a date stamped on each tire when they are manufactured.
The letters a specific but the numbers represent (3508 as in this picture) the 35 is the 35th week of the year, the 08 represents 2008.
Lesson I learned? All deals are not such a good deal no matter what tire brand. There is usually a reason they are being discounted.
eddy
Hey Eddy, I really like what I see on your site! That new Tire from Bridgestone "the Spitfire series" claims to be in the performance class as the Metz 880 and Dunlop D404! They obviously went back to the drawing board to get in the game to stay competitive. Bridgestone is not a bad tire company as they have a lot of quality auto tire products as good as any tire you want to buy, But without saying they produced and offered as a stock tire (a builders grade tire) for the Bonnies that was less than desirable and it's had a negative impact on most here when it comes to replacing tires with the "Bridgestone" name. I'm needing tires now and I'm going to buy those Spitfires from you cause I know they are New and not old stock and NOT a "Builders Grade" tire! I'll Let ya know how I like them................T 
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