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So you are at last admitting that it's not the tyres? It's the rogue traders that are at fault? But in other of your posts, you are saying that there is nothing wrong with second hand tyres? Now come on, which is it? And one more thing. Are you telling me that you put/would use second hand tyres on a 260 se?. If you do, you are .without doubt a danger to yourself, but more to the point, a danger to me and everyone else on the road

Originally Posted by Leyland Worldmaster

No need to apologise! This is your opinion; each to their own and all that! I buy my tyres new-my choices based on research- from reputable tyre specialists.

I will not buy part worn tyres as I cannot be sure of their history and- in my opinion- it just doesn't seem right.

I may have mentioned it before; some weeks I drive up to 430 miles.

What I do works for me; if buying part worn works for you, cool!

I probably do, on average, between 1,000 miles and 3,000 miles a year on the continent in a year,around an average of about 80 mph. Would you like to do a 500-750 miles at around that speed on tyres that you have no history of? Second hand tyres, that have been banged up gutters are the ones that are the most dangerous, don't ask me why, ask the experts. Watch a clever young lady bang up the gutter over the road from where I live , taking her 2 children to primary school. I heard the bang ,and looked to see the rear wheel being banged up the gutter also. She took the children to school and came back to a flat front tyre. No spare. Evidently called a tyre company, got no breakdown cover I suppose. I went over and spoke to said Young lady, quite good looking, Hhmm . Hour and a half later, tyre company turned up, took wheel off, and then pronounced to the young lady, that the tyre was no good. Being a nosey so and so, partly on behalf of lady, I asked what was the matter with it if it was no good. Pity I did not keep the tyre to show the doubters on here. He showed the lady the tyre and she could not see anything wrong with it, and neither could i. He asked me to come and have a look in the van at the tyre. He more or less spread the tyre right out where the tyre had been bounced up the gutter, and asked me to feel along where there was a very slight mark on the inside of the tyre .You could feel that the wires had either broken or misformed. When I asked how he thought it had happened, he asked if it had been driven up the gutter at speed. The young one said no, 'I only came up gently'. I pointed out that the one of the reasons I had come over was just to be nosey, and said that the young one had probably hit the gutter at around 15 mph. ' yes that is just about right' tyre fitter said. They don't realise how much damage that can be done doing that. He then changed the tyre for a new one, for which she complained
I'm mad, and said that her partner would go mad about it.After she had gone, I spoke with the tyre fitter and listened to some of the jobs he had gone out to, and guess what, he said that he could have vulcanised a patch on it, and then some time later it could have blown out within a few miles. So, my question to all is, if the fitter had not been so perfect at his job, the young lady could have been injured, dead, along with other people. My question is,'how would you know'if you bought a tyre that (a) had been banged up a gutter but not gone down, or had the structural damage that I described. Please don't tell me that you would trust the supplier of that second hand tyre to tell you, even care, that it was damaged. If you want to trust second hand possibly damaged tyres, then I feel sorry for you. Bye bye.