Part Worn Tyre Woes

[LeeUK]

Just had a part worn Michelin Energy Saver tyre fitted at a back street garage for £20. Tread depth is practically brand new. Got home and noticed this chunk out of it at the edge, they or someone must have known about it as it has a white pencil mark showing where it is.

Have I just been conned out of 20 notes?

 

[LeeUK]

Looks more than just a chunk, is it split?

Don't know if it is split or cut or what it has had stuck in it or a manufacturer fault. It has a little dribble/strand of rubber stuck to top of of the cut. Like what you get when you dribble syrup from a spoon.

I'd say you've just been conned.

I'd say you were daft for contemplating part-worns to begin with.

Just one tyre that needed replacing as it was bald on the edge. Cheapest new fitted was £46.

 

[LeeUK]

It was the only one he had left in my tyre size.

Full size detailed pic link: http://i.imgur.com/cAqikuo.jpg

Don't think I'll bother with part worns again. Lesson learnt.

 

[LeeUK]

I'l get 2 new tyres fitted to front before the winter if I still have this car. Spent loads on repairs recently and it is also leaking oil from the cylinder head.

 

[LeeUK]

You spend £20 on a tyre which is the only contact between the road and your car?

I didn't expect to get a tyre with a chunk missing. I thought It would be better getting one with some tread still on compared to my barely legal one.

Buying a second hard car has part worn tyres unless you instantly change them too.

 

[LeeUK]

Would have been a cracking tyre if it didm't have the cut in it as tread depth is still 7mm.

 

[LeeUK]

No it doesn't. It has tyres that have done x mileage since new on the car. Not tyres removed from another vehicle with an unknown history and potentially terminal fault.

Unless of course the seller informs you that they are part worn tyres fitted to the car, in which case you've seriously got to question why you'd buy the car.

Buying a second hand car you still don't know the history of the tyres even if they have been on since new. Where they been, kept at correct pressure, how many puncture repairs, etc.

 

[LeeUK]

Knew it would be too good to be true. Oh well.

 

[LeeUK]

If I report this garage I doubt anything will happen. As already been said they will just say it was fine when they sold it. Hell they didn't even give me a receipt but they are clearly in the part worn business as the walls where racked in part worn tyres right to the roof.

They do participate in social media so I will spread the word around about their dodgyness.

 

[LeeUK]

I don't think that's fair. Had you bought a brand new Michelin tyre, perhaps you could stir some ****. But you knowingly bought a part-worn tyre.
It's your own fault.

They knowingly sold me a part worn tyre not fit for purpose.

 

[LeeUK]

They are size 175/65/r14

 

[LeeUK]

Don't some of these part worn tyres come from Europe i.e. Germany where they swap out tyres earlier.

That seemed to the be the case at my local dodgy tyre fitter who when I enquired about getting a replacement tyre for my wifes Yaris tried to sell me some 10 year old part worn tyre. I politely declined but he couldn't understand why, his view being that it's the same make/model as your current, mine being there's only around 3.5mm of tread and the date code indicates it's around 10 years old.

If the tyre I was offered was like that I would have declined too. Wasn't going to go any lower than 5mm and it had to be a recent tyre, not a 10 year old thing.

Obviously I got sucked in at the nearly new Michelin.

 

[LeeUK]

Continental PC5 are like £35 new in this size. An excellent tyre

£53.77 fitted from Blackcircles.