part worn tyres

force_ten

some interesting points being brought up here

last year I bought a set of alloys off the bay and they had very good tyres on them a full matched set and goodyears with 6mm tread on two and 7mm on the other two, the tyres were worth more than i paid for the wheels and tyres together and these are the tyres that are on my car now with around 4mm on the most worn tyre

I will look at the date codes on the tryes and pay more attention to tyre age from now on

and as from my stand point I would run with partworn tyres that came on a car that i bought second hand, but i wouldnt change tyres with partworns and if funds allow i will always go with new tyres of a premium brand and i also like a full matched set of tyres on my car

nobbysn*ts

Commercially, part worns don't make financial sense but I've had some bargains off ebay. 3 sets of rims I bought for winter tyres, £20 a set, one came with 4 very good Michelins (owner had swopped to alloys), another set came with 4 decent, but Chinese tyres, (they were excellent road holding in the wet). Lucked out on the third set though, but 8 tyres, and 12 rims for £60 is good enough for me. I've also had two lots of two tyres for £1 a pair, but then a tenner each to fit, and another set of 4 wheels and tyres for £20 I could put straight on. I keep an eye on ebay now, and bid whenever the right size comes up.

Joe_Horner

AdrianC wrote: »

The issue is one of budgeting, not absolute cost. [...]
That combo, in my book, makes a £25 4mm part-worn MORE expensive than a £75 9mm new. If you're budgeting your motoring expenses properly, you'll never have the "sticker shock" of having to find it all at once, no matter how big the bill - because you'll have been saving little and often towards it.

Agreed, but for an awful lot of people it is a matter of absolute cost because, when you're living on NMW in a remote area with no savings, budgeting on things like this is often a luxury you simply can't afford.

Despite what successive governments would like you to believe, that's the cold, hard, reality for many working people in this glorious country of ours.

arcon5

Joe_Horner wrote: »

Agreed, but for an awful lot of people it is a matter of absolute cost because, when you're living on NMW in a remote area with no savings, budgeting on things like this is often a luxury you simply can't afford.

Despite what successive governments would like you to believe, that's the cold, hard, reality for many working people in this glorious country of ours.

Completely agree.

As an example, somebody may budget £80/month for example for their car (plus insurance), budgeting would mean putting £80/month to one side. If after just two months the clutch goes costing £250 your already shut, even if budgeting. The clutch may last the next couple of years, but if the following month you need 2 new tyres you have no money to spend £100 on two new tyres. Suddenly £50 part worn tyres are looking attractive.

I say this because although you seem to grasp the concept, some people seem to forget that not everybody thinks £100 is a small sum of money.
Some members are showing themselves to be quite naive.

salubrious

Tyres are the final contact point to the road - One of my highest mot failure points is tyres. The 'oh i know about the tyres' remark when the customer is presented with a failure is something that never ceases to baffle me. More so when 2 or 3 child seats are bolted in.

I appreciate the running costs are an issue for a lot of people, I am more experienced than most on here (in respect the motor trade) and also in dealing with folk that haven't two penny's to rub together.

Runners are something that have their place, but it's getting more and more difficult to actually get a decent runner. A lot of stuff out there these days have around 3mm of tread left, is tat that has been imported from across Europe (winter tyres especially) or are tyres that have been repaired close to the sidewall that would otherwise have been scraped.

A tyre is a lot of things, but I have never hear it called a luxury before. I'd happily have some of you guys come and work with me for a week or two, you'd walk away with a completely different viewpoint

AdrianC

arcon5 wrote: »

As an example, somebody may budget £80/month for example for their car (plus insurance), budgeting would mean putting £80/month to one side. If after just two months the clutch goes costing £250 your already shut, even if budgeting.

You only need to find £90 - next month's running costs. Because you've already got £160 in the pot.

But, no, I do understand the concept and reality as it applies to a relatively small number of people living on a shoestring in areas with no public transport and for whom cycling/lift sharing/other forms of transport aren't - for whatever reason - feasible. It doesn't apply to the vast majority of people who are buying false economy part-worns, though.

KTF

salubrious wrote: »

3mm of tread left

3mm is generally the min allowed tread depth in most of mainland Europe. As the UK is 1.6mm, a few people realised a way to make some cash from all those tyres.

Mankysteve

BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

I think that's a bit unfair on Nankang, their products are not to my knowledge remoulds, and they're very much at the mid-range market point.

Remould are illegal on normal passenger cars arn't they?

AdrianC

Mankysteve wrote: »

Remould are illegal on normal passenger cars arn't they?

No, they're not. They've just totally fallen out of fashion and been replaced with Chinese teflon/concrete blend ditchfinders.

Mmmm! http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/ROADON-passenger-car-tyre-EU-label_1535692786.html

Daz2009

Every car on the road is running on part worn tyres