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Yup Bill and Donna, as Wayne corrected the 07 is the WEEK of the calendar year 2001 that these tires were manufactured per Indyroadrunner's explanation. These tires are 5 months older than the July, 2001 you calculated.
Sometimes the DOT code is only 8 characters long because the longer code is on the inside of the tire. The short version will always state the location of manufacture and the date code. In the code you posted, these tires were made in Kentucky in the good ole USA.
This one is a no-brainer. You are LUCKY this is your first problem. It's probably true that maybe the mishap with the chock help move things along, but these tires are over 10 years old!
Let us know what you get as replacements! You can at least be proud that you got that many (very lucky) years from them. That should be some kind of tribute on how you take care of your tires.
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