Run-flat repairs?
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From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 27 May 2010 19:05 We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Mrcheerful" <nbkm57(a)hotmail.co.uk> saying something like: >Years ago I used to get quite a few secondhand tyres put on to a particular >customers vehicles (he ran a very old fleet of hire cars and maintained them >only when needed) I never heard of a problem with any of those secondhand >tyres and they must have numbered over a hundred. Exactly. Most of it's hysterical bullshit.
From: Dave Plowman (News) on 27 May 2010 19:15 In article <htj236$amo$3(a)speranza.aioe.org>, Michael Hubert Kenyon <enemabandit(a)virgin.net> wrote: > 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. So if you buy a secondhand car with apparently good tyres you immediately replace them? -- *No radio - Already stolen. Dave Plowman dave(a)davenoise.co.uk London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound.
From: Dave Plowman (News) on 27 May 2010 19:19 In article <nlutv515pi5m28tduj77h47vbv81s1jjb2(a)4ax.com>, Grimly Curmudgeon <grimly4REMOVE(a)REMOVEgmail.com> wrote: > We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the > drugs began to take hold. I remember "Mrcheerful" <nbkm57(a)hotmail.co.uk> > saying something like: > >Years ago I used to get quite a few secondhand tyres put on to a > >particular customers vehicles (he ran a very old fleet of hire cars > >and maintained them only when needed) I never heard of a problem with > >any of those secondhand tyres and they must have numbered over a > >hundred. > Exactly. Most of it's hysterical bullshit. Yup. But these prejudices are great - keeps the price low. Got a set of 5 near new tyres on wheels where the seller had upgraded to larger wheels for less than the cost of one new same make tyre... -- *Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy * Dave Plowman dave(a)davenoise.co.uk London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound.
From: Adrian on 28 May 2010 02:14 "Dave Plowman (News)" <dave(a)davenoise.co.uk> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: > So if you buy a secondhand car with apparently good tyres you > immediately replace them? Well, the last two cars I've bought have had all four perfectly legal tyres replaced fairly soon after purchase, yes.
From: Mrcheerful on 28 May 2010 07:44
Gordon H wrote: > In message <op.vdctiktnhaghkf(a)lucy.cable.virginmedia.net>, Duncan Wood > <nntpnews(a)dmx512.co.uk> writes >> On Wed, 26 May 2010 19:36:12 +0100, Adrian <toomany2cvs(a)gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> Very true. But at least you can make a decision based upon the >>> general condition of the car, and on the owner himself. >> >> I'm failing to see how that's an improvement on looking at the inside >> of the tyres. > > I did buy one or two part worn tyres a few years ago, and in each > case I was able to examine the insides. They had what seemed to > be well galvanised puncture pairs, and the side walls were in good > condition. 'vulcanised puncture repairs' |