Friend bought a car on finance and has massive problems with it.

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stepp said:

Geodark said:

Find this so hard to believe sorry - How on earth can it have had an inside out tyre! you dont get treads on the inside! 

Asymmetrical tyre fitted with the "inside" writing on the outside ( sorry if i worded it badly ). We would let it slide but one of the tyres is 8 years old another 6 years old on a 4 year old car, plus summer and winter tyres on each opposite corner, which we have been told could be lethal in the wet. 

As this is so dangerous, why didn't the local garage just sort it out, or send it straight to a tyre services? Swapping opposite corner wheels over is a couple of minutes work, and knocking a tyre off and refitting it the correct way round is easy.

As to the age of them, even tyre manufacturers admit they can easily last 10 years, and they are trying to sell them to you.

I'd have just got the tyre swapped round and driven it back to the supplying garage for them to look at the other problems.

macman

When was the last MOT done. and are there any advisories on it?
Give us some context: make/model/mileage? Price paid? Main dealer or independent garage? How was the vehicle described?
Many cars sold at 4 years old will have a manufacturers warranty still running, or an add-on warranty of some sort.
How could she have test-driven it and not seen the tyre pressure warning light?

nottsphil

macman said:

How could she have test-driven it and not seen the tyre pressure warning light?

If she doesn't even know what a clutch is, she's hardly going to realise what that is!

Come to think of it, how can you learn to drive without being taught what a clutch is?? 

Were_Doomed

nottsphil said:

macman said:

How could she have test-driven it and not seen the tyre pressure warning light?

Come to think of it, how can you learn to drive without being taught what a clutch is?? 

By learning in an automatic.
(Of course that means you can't legally drive a manual vehicle - at least not without L plates and accompanied by a qualified driver).

Geodark

stepp said:

Geodark said:

Find this so hard to believe sorry - How on earth can it have had an inside out tyre! you dont get treads on the inside! 

Asymmetrical tyre fitted with the "inside" writing on the outside ( sorry if i worded it badly ). We would let it slide but one of the tyres is 8 years old another 6 years old on a 4 year old car, plus summer and winter tyres on each opposite corner, which we have been told could be lethal in the wet. 

Righty - with you now! that is so bad, and an 8 year old tyre must be at the point of starting to break down now! If they have bodged the tyres like that i would have very little faith in the rest of the car to be honest.

angrycrow

Op in future when looking at cars to purchase have a good look at the tyres. They have a four digit code on them, the first two digits are the week they were produced and the second two the year. So 0220 would have been produced the second week in January 2020.

It appears somebody replaced the tyres using a random selection of part worn tyres. Tyres are a good indication of how the car has been looked after. 4 good premium tyres shows the owner does not scrimp on maintainance, 4 mismatched part worn tyres show they don't give a monkeys.

The mot only requires that the tyres are of the same size across the axle, fitted the correct way around if directional, and with any outside marking on the outside. And you can't mix radial and crossplys on the same axle but unlikely to come up these days.