Be darn certain to specify how old a tire you will accept. The Toyos are made in Japan so it can be difficult to get ones less than six months old. But you need to tell them your limit. When we had our tires replaced last summer I specified 6 months but privately I would accept 9 months.
The first set delivered were two years old. The tire shop rejected 18 tires before they got a set that was 11 months old so I took those.
When we bought our motorhome new the tires were already nine months old but had been pressurized for only five of the nine months, so I didn't care about the extra two months on the date code (9 versus 11) for the new tires. I know when the new tires were installed and first pressurized, which is more important to me than some manufacturing date.
Why is it such an issue getting "fresh" tires? Because the tire warranty starts when they are installed, not when they were made, so the warehouses have no incentive to send out the freshest tires or even matched tires nor will they look for them, usually.
But motorhomes, unlike commercial trucks, age the tires out before they wear them out so it's more of an issue for us, especially if we're contemplating selling the motorhome in four or five years.
Make sense?
Ray
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2020 Forest River Georgetown GT5 34H5
2020 Equinox Premier AWD 2.0L/9-speed
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