Buying Used Tyres

2sides2everystory

Wig wrote: »

...There will always be people who never want to use used tyres just as there are always people who will only cross a road at a pedestrian crossing, or who stand there and look left, right and left again and wait until they are absolutely certain that there are no cars within half a mile before crossing. At the end of the day it is personal choice. Once you get over the fear factor that you have been infected with since you were a child you may find that it's no big deal. I have used used tyres for the last 20 years with no problems.

We all know you on MSE as a wise chap, Wig, but surely you weren't risking used tyres from a scrapyard on your taxis?? :eek:

Kilty_2

2sides2everystory wrote: »

We all know you on MSE as a wise chap, Wig, but surely you weren't risking used tyres from a scrapyard on your taxis?? :eek:

What, you mean like 99.99999999999999% of minicab drivers? (assuming they bother changing them)

jase1

MMust admit, every time I've seen a minicab it has 3 or 4 different makes of ditchfinder tyres on it

At the end of the day it's all personal choice. I have OCD when it comes to buying "stuff" -- I'll spend ridiculous amounts of time thinking about it, then buy the total opposite the following time. Hence I've never bought the same brand of tyres twice in succession.

SH tyres short-circuit this as you get what you're given

Outpost

Scooby_Doo. wrote: »

I know they do but looks like you're out of touch. They only pay for fitting and balancing. A decade with the LAS makes you an expert in the running of the police how?

Who supplies the tyres to the police service for nothing then? That must be a hell of a lot of tyres considering the thousands of vehicles they have in service.

Does a particular manufacturer turf over all these thousands of tyres for free or is it common practice among most of them to manufacturer these tyres at a cost and hand them over to the police service for nothing? Does this also apply to the fire service and ambulance service?

Just curious.

bigjl

Police getting free tyres? What a load if crap. No tyre company, let alone Goodyear could give away ten thousand tyres a year, as that is the kind of figure i reckon you would be looking at in London. I believe we get through a couple of thousand a year in the LAS. And the Met Pol has many more vehicles than we do and the Astras do over 30k a year going by the ones i saw go through WOMA last year, all three years old all at around 88 to 93 thousand miles. But too expensive at over 3 grand even with half leather they were at most worth 2200.

But don't they get those for free aswell.

I take it Michelin give out free tyre aswell as i have been told.that the Met are considering changing to Michelin as it has proved financially beneficial for the LAS.

Oh wait, why worry when they get them for free.


Free tyres, seriously and you expect anybody to believe anything you post.

Especially when you are on your second or third user name...............

Scooby_Doo.

Outpost wrote: »

Who supplies the tyres to the police service for nothing then? That must be a hell of a lot of tyres considering the thousands of vehicles they have in service.

Does a particular manufacturer turf over all these thousands of tyres for free or is it common practice among most of them to manufacturer these tyres at a cost and hand them over to the police service for nothing? Does this also apply to the fire service and ambulance service?

Just curious.

A certain tyre manufacture own a tyre fitting company who do the work for four forces round our way, the tyre company provide the rubber and all the police authoritites are charged for it the fitting.

Our resident emergency services expert will dispute this, as he will also deny the low cost police vehilces are purchased for. Remember he gets his info from a friend of his cousins brothers next door neighbours best mate. So he must be correct.:D

Outpost

Dunno. Seems to me the only way a tyre manufacturer would be able to give away 'free' tyres to the police service would be to charge them twenty quid to fit each one.

Scooby_Doo.

Outpost wrote: »

Dunno. Seems to me the only way a tyre manufacturer would be able to give away 'free' tyres to the police service would be to charge them twenty quid to fit each one.

Fitting and balancing is about six quid.;)

Outpost

Scooby_Doo. wrote: »

Fitting and balancing is about six quid.;)

In that case the scenario would appear to make very little sense unless the tyre manufacturer of which you speak has chosen to give the police free tyres as some sort of public service. The tyres must cost about £6 to buy in wholesale, once you factor in the cost of manpower fitting all these essentially free tyres to hundreds of police cars then the whole thing looks pretty unlikely from where I'm sitting.

Not to worry though.

Scooby_Doo.

Outpost wrote: »

In that case the scenario would appear to make very little sense unless the tyre manufacturer of which you speak has chosen to give the police free tyres as some sort of public service. The tyres must cost about £6 to buy in wholesale, once you factor in the cost of manpower fitting all these essentially free tyres to hundreds of police cars then the whole thing looks pretty unlikely from where I'm sitting.

Not to worry though.

Maybe it's some sort of tax write off and when you consider Volvo tyres can cost Joe Public up to £200 a corner, maybe thats how things stack up.

I can't see how they can sell an expensive 4x4 to the police for about 1/3 of the retail price either, but they do.