Run-flat repairs?
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From: Adrian on 26 May 2010 11:34 "Duncan Wood" <nntptmp(a)dmx512.co.uk> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: >> Agreed. I have often wondered the wisdom of buying secondhand tyres >> whose history is unkown. The wheels could easily have come from a car >> involved in a fatac. > & yet nearly everyone does it whenever they buy a 2nd hand car. There's usually far easier ways to tell whether the used car you buy has been involved in a serious collision than the used tyres you buy. For a start, why've they come off a car before being worn out?
From: Duncan Wood on 26 May 2010 11:51 On Wed, 26 May 2010 16:34:00 +0100, Adrian <toomany2cvs(a)gmail.com> wrote: > "Duncan Wood" <nntptmp(a)dmx512.co.uk> gurgled happily, sounding much like > they were saying: > >>> Agreed. I have often wondered the wisdom of buying secondhand tyres >>> whose history is unkown. The wheels could easily have come from a car >>> involved in a fatac. > >> & yet nearly everyone does it whenever they buy a 2nd hand car. > > There's usually far easier ways to tell whether the used car you buy has > been involved in a serious collision than the used tyres you buy. > > For a start, why've they come off a car before being worn out? What's a collision got to do with the state of the tyres? -- Duncan Wood
From: Adrian on 26 May 2010 11:57 "Duncan Wood" <nntptmp(a)dmx512.co.uk> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: >>>> Agreed. I have often wondered the wisdom of buying secondhand tyres >>>> whose history is unkown. The wheels could easily have come from a car >>>> involved in a fatac. >>> & yet nearly everyone does it whenever they buy a 2nd hand car. >> There's usually far easier ways to tell whether the used car you buy >> has been involved in a serious collision than the used tyres you buy. >> >> For a start, why've they come off a car before being worn out? > What's a collision got to do with the state of the tyres? It all depends on what the tyres bounced off in the throes of the collision, doesn't it?
From: Mrcheerful on 26 May 2010 12:07 Adrian wrote: > "Duncan Wood" <nntptmp(a)dmx512.co.uk> gurgled happily, sounding much > like they were saying: > >>> Agreed. I have often wondered the wisdom of buying secondhand tyres >>> whose history is unkown. The wheels could easily have come from a >>> car involved in a fatac. > >> & yet nearly everyone does it whenever they buy a 2nd hand car. > > There's usually far easier ways to tell whether the used car you buy > has been involved in a serious collision than the used tyres you buy. > > For a start, why've they come off a car before being worn out? many secondhand tyres come from abroad, where the minimum tread limit is deeper than we have (so I was told) many good tyres come from mot failure/insurance write offs (which may only have cosmetic damage to be a write off), many good tyres come from places that do special deals if you buy four new ones at one one time. many good ones come from places that refuse to fit one or two tyres and will only fit 4 at a time on vehicles with full time four wheel drive, etc. etc.
From: Adrian on 26 May 2010 12:13
"Mrcheerful" <nbkm57(a)hotmail.co.uk> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: >> For a start, why've they come off a car before being worn out? > many secondhand tyres come from abroad, where the minimum tread limit is > deeper than we have (so I was told) 3mm in Germany, 1.6mm here. Not a huge difference - especially since 3mm tends to be the advised replacement depth - they certainly seem to "go off" below that, ime. |