16 year old tyre

[Kenai]

I am the one who is joking, there is no attitude from me.

Note who is the one taking all serious here with the attitude?

Where is your sense of humour?

The joke is Fox always take the pragmatic line. The quickest way to resolve this would forget the £130 and move on for the OP and not drag it out for a year and a half as no one was hurt. Of course taking it to Court was the correct course of action, as indicated in the first reply.

My posts were littered with smilies, why do you have to be such a grinch?

I don't care about Fox missing the joke, he always does

I was under the impression that a prerequisite to something being a joke was that it was funny?

 

[Ricochet J]

I am the one who is joking, there is no attitude from me.

Note who is the one taking all serious here with the attitude?

Where is your sense of humour?

The joke is Fox always take the pragmatic line. The quickest way to resolve this would forget the £130 and move on for the OP and not drag it out for a year and a half as no one was hurt. Of course taking it to Court was the correct course of action, as indicated in the first reply.

My posts were littered with smilies, why do you have to be such a grinch?

I don't care about Fox missing the joke, he always does

Remember when I said "half the stuff you post is crap"?

 

[Raymond Lin]

I was under the impression that a prerequisite to something being a joke was that it was funny?

LOL, it was a bad joke, but still a joke and I DID make it clear with a LOL at the front and at the back! I wasn't even being sarcastic cryptically lol

 

[Raymond Lin]

Remember when I said "half the stuff you post is crap"?

I do !! and you are still wrong as I admitted 90% of my stuff I post is crap.

 

[[TW]Fox]

I do !! and you are still wrong as I admitted 90% of my stuff I post is crap.

LOLOLOLOL etc. Self depreciating humour is always a good last ditch attempt

 

[Raymond Lin]

LOLOLOLOL etc. Self depreciating humour is always a good last ditch attempt

I have no problem admitting what I post around here is crap.

90% of the time, not 50%

 

[shifty_uk]

Most excellent OP and kudos to that Foxxy nerd for working out the age of the tyre.

 

[Russinating]

Little press update:

http://www.confused.com/car-insurance/articles/garage-fined-7000-for-selling-16-year-old-tyre
http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Man-...ear-old-tyre/story-13753149-detail/story.html
http://www.tyrepress.com/News/business_area/Retail/23784.html
http://www.bristol247.com/2011/11/04/bristol-man-fined-7k-for-selling-16-year-old-new-tyre-25443/

 

[Dale V]

well done

The tyre trader must be fuming!

 

[shifty_uk]

Excellent. Will it be in the local paper? That'll be his business up the wall.

 

[MikeHunt79]

Nice result.

After hearing about that recent crash on the M5 the other day, it's also rather lucky that your blowout on the motorway didn't cause any further damage.

Things That Make You Go Hmmmm....

If you're stuck near Easton again, head up to ProTyre in St George, they're pretty good IMO.

 

[Russinating]

Excellent. Will it be in the local paper? That'll be his business up the wall.

Yeah, 'This Is Bristol' is the online version of The Bristol Evening Post, so it'll have been in there on Friday. Didn't manage to pick up a copy sadly.

 

[Jamous]

Great result mate- well done!

I've worked in the motor trade all my working days, and I can bet the tyre will have been laying around and that they had no idea of what a date stamp was (you'd be amazed that not many know this), but as the tyre looked "like new" it would be ok and charge you for it.
The tyre may be an uncommon size so they had it for a long time.
I had to educate a former empolyer about tyre date stamps...

 

[Brookert]

Excellent result!!!

 

[rIcK]

Around 2 months ago I purchased a part worn tyre for £35. It looked "ok" at the time but me being me I assumed the tyre a place would have provided would be suitable.

Recently I took my old car for an unrelated minor problem to a garage and he pointed out my tyre was from 1996 and should never have been sold me.

Here is the place in question, is this worth pursuing? This place often has arguments amongst its own staff whilst customers are present. It is an absolute shambles of a place. Owned by a tight fisted asian gentleman.

 

[Mickie]

well done, i found it funny reading the original thread, it was full of fail and not on your part, op.

 

[peterattheboro]

Around 2 months ago I purchased a part worn tyre for £35. It looked "ok" at the time but me being me I assumed the tyre a place would have provided would be suitable.

Recently I took my old car for an unrelated minor problem to a garage and he pointed out my tyre was from 1996 and should never have been sold me.

Here is the place in question, is this worth pursuing? This place often has arguments amongst its own staff whilst customers are present. It is an absolute shambles of a place. Owned by a tight fisted asian gentleman.
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I've rang them for a quote and got the rudest, grottiest, chavviest scrote speaking to me I just hung up.

So yes I would. C&S is the place you want to go in Boro.

 

[wez130]

I've rang them for a quote and got the rudest, grottiest, chavviest scrote speaking to me I just hung up.

So yes I would. C&S is the place you want to go in Boro.

I've had good service from Town & country, but i normally get North East tyre and exhausts, or National tyres and autocare to price match me from Camskill, you'll be suprised that they will, and that's not even taking into account the fact the £10 charge you'd normally pay for fitting alone, is waived so basically, it works out £10 a tyre less than camskill. Though, the last time i tried NE tyres, they couldn't price match hence why i ended up at National.

 

[Russinating]

Around 2 months ago I purchased a part worn tyre for £35. It looked "ok" at the time but me being me I assumed the tyre a place would have provided would be suitable.

Recently I took my old car for an unrelated minor problem to a garage and he pointed out my tyre was from 1996 and should never have been sold me.

Here is the place in question, is this worth pursuing? This place often has arguments amongst its own staff whilst customers are present. It is an absolute shambles of a place. Owned by a tight fisted asian gentleman.

Go for it. Speak to your local Trading Standards office and they'll advise further. Benefit of going through them is no court costs (or any costs at all for that matter) and they sort out all the evidence and statements etc.

Chance are your place and mine have been doing it for years and either people don't realise for ages (like you) and so don't know where it's come from or just can't be bothered to take it further in the first place. Shame because it's a serious death threat and you wouldn't let it fly if it was anything else.

 

[shifty_uk]

So, everyone buying used tyres or even tyres from an independent garage, remember to check the production date and take note of these posts:

Right as I'm a tyre geek I've been doing some research. Please do not take this as absolute fact because I might be wrong, but to the best of my knowledge that tyre was produced in December 1994. I am almost certain this is the case.

The key is in the DOT code. The DOT code is required by American legislation. For tyres produced before 2000, it takes the form of the text DOT, a 3 chracter code indicating the plant it was made in (In this case A5M), then a second group of numbers indicating the week made (In this case 49) and the year of the decade it was made in (In this case the 4th) with a little triangle which identifies it was made in the 1990's.

Therefore it is a tyre made in Week 49 of the 4th year of the 1990's.

There should be a production date on it somewhere. Usually they are in the form week number/year, so a tyre made in mid January 2009 would say '0309' as the production date. Not sure if that will have such a number in the same format, best thing you can do is photograph every single number and post them here and we'll have a look.