Bald tyres on a car

cajef

Chopper_Read wrote: »

No you won't. This whole post it complete rubbish.

Do you realise that you are replying to a six year old post from 2007?

Chopper_Read

cajef wrote: »

Do you realise that you are replying to a six year old post from 2007?

Yeah, thanks for that it was crap then and it still is.

londonTiger

if you cant afford to put on ha;f decent tyes - then you shouldn't really be driving. Forget the saftey aside. If you're really that poor - God knows how you insure, tax and MOT the vehicle let alone service and pay for fuel.

anotherbaldrick

If your tyres are unroadworthy they may stop you driving any further and insist it continues on a recovery vehicle.

photome

londonTiger wrote: »

if you cant afford to put on ha;f decent tyes - then you shouldn't really be driving. Forget the saftey aside. If you're really that poor - God knows how you insure, tax and MOT the vehicle let alone service and pay for fuel.

How would they afford a torque wrench.

As an aside this thread was started in 2007

owen_money

I am sure all this hype about bald tyres is just down to the makers trying to sell more, how dangerous can it be? F1 cars don't have any tread. I normally use them until the steel cables poke through and i have never had a problem

Chopper_Read

owen_money wrote: »

I am sure all this hype about bald tyres is just down to the makers trying to sell more, how dangerous can it be? F1 cars don't have any tread. I normally use them until the steel cables poke through and i have never had a problem

They didn't but they do now, elf end safety.

Robisere

tomstickland wrote: »

If really desperate then buy part worns from a scrap yard.

This is not correct. It has been illegal to supply and illegal to buy, "part-worn" tyres from anywhere, for some time now.

In fact, a reclamation yard which can remove and sell a large enough number of tyres, will get more for them per tyre, than they would be allowed to get from a member of the public. The recycling of tyres is now big business in the UK.

chrisw

Robisere wrote: »

This is not correct. It has been illegal to supply and illegal to buy, "part-worn" tyres from anywhere, for some time now.

Nonsense! But they have to be in a legal condition and permanently marked as part worn.

thenudeone

chrisw wrote: »

Nonsense! But they have to be in a legal condition and permanently marked as part worn.

Last time I was in Kwik-fit their advertising blurb stated that in a survey by Trading Standards, 9?% of part worn tyres being sold didn't meet the relevant regulations. If it was completely illegal I'm sure they would have said.