Tyres Deflating

Drea

Hey I was hoping for some help.

We have a SAAB 9-5 that has been SORNed for the past year, we are now trying to get it cleaned up to sell it but the tyres seem to keep deflating a couple of days after pumping them up. There is nothing noticeably wrong with them.

Any ideas?

penrhyn

Faulty valve? Can of repair goo!

steve-L

You say tyres plural.....

So either there is something wrong OR they are on alloys that need retreating.

Drea

steve-L wrote: »

You say tyres plural.....

So either there is something wrong OR they are on alloys that need retreating.

That sounds expensive? :eek:

WestonDave

Have to say my instinct on reading it was that it was alloys delaminating. Give your local tyre dealer a ring and ask how much it would be to refurbish wheels - that will give you a worst case scenario. It might be worth as a precursor to that taking them in to a decent tyre dealer and getting them to reset the tyres on the wheels having given the wheel a scrape round to get rid of any obvious loose flaking metal. However that is likely only to be a short term fix which might come back to bite you after you've sold the car!

I had a Rover 420 years back that started showing signs of this - couple that with everything on it costing a fortune to fix and I figured I was better trading it in part ex and getting rid of it with no comeback!

maninthestreet

Could be just the valves - get the valve replaced on just one tyre first to see if it cures the problem.

Drea

Thanks everyone, I've been passing the answers onto my OH - I'm clueless!

We would only have got around £1k for the car anyway, was just hoping to sell it to get a scooter for me to get to work. Might have to be a webuyanycar.com job...

arcon5

They'll give absolute peanuts. Just sell it on and tell the buyer the issue and that the tyres might need reseating or alloys refurbishing. Some adverts around my end show refurbishing to be around £40 per wheel, probably less at a backstreet garage.
Reseating will be peanuts

Drea

arcon5 wrote: »

They'll give absolute peanuts. Just sell it on and tell the buyer the issue and that the tyres might need reseating or alloys refurbishing. Some adverts around my end show refurbishing to be around £40 per wheel, probably less at a backstreet garage.
Reseating will be peanuts

I'd worry about selling it with problems in case it was worse than we thought! Before it was taken off the road it was running fine but you just never know after a year of it sitting in a drive.

Shame it's an estate, they are ever so unfashionable these days

Al1x

You could probably buy some cheap alloys or even steels on ebay (etc) then sell it with those.

we have been lucky to get several sets of wheels for between £50-100.

arcon5

Drea wrote: »

I'd worry about selling it with problems in case it was worse than we thought! Before it was taken off the road it was running fine but you just never know after a year of it sitting in a drive.

Shame it's an estate, they are ever so unfashionable these days

Not your problem to be honest. So long as you offer an accurate description of the car and don't mislead anybody and state known faults then the buyer has no comeback if problems develop later on.

Private sales are a case of caveat emptor