Part Worn Tyre Woes

[silversurfer]

So long as it doesnt rain...

Part worns get used on taxis quite often afaik. I used to go one place the owner/fitter drove up in a Lambo contach and his mate was getting all round very fat tyre replacements on his Merc.
They can give you good tyres picked out specially or random punters will get near trash sometimes, haggle skills relevant I reckon as above new can be best. Also scrap yards will sell you tyres with the steels, same deal caveat emptor

 

[bledd]

They're great in the wet.

Screw part warns.

 

[LeeUK]

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

£53.77 fitted from Blackcircles.

 

[theone8181]

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.

Isnt the law changing here, so that its illegal (and rightly so imho) to have a 10+years old tyre. Also my personal change time is at 3mm (my tyres cost ~£800 for a set of 4, but theres no way im skimping on the thing that holds you to the road).

 

[bledd]

£53.77 fitted from Blackcircles.

Just buy them and take them to your local garage, cheaper.

 

[Scania]

I'm a trader

Still got the e60 M5?

 

[nutcase]

Part worns are fine if checked properly in my experience, and the supplier is reputable. The place I use is happy for people to check over the tyres before fitting (I've had 3 sets off them so 12 tyres and only had to reject one which had a similar gouge to the OP. Was a little disappointed that one was damaged and they were apologetic.

 

[Firestar_3x]

Part worns are fine if checked properly in my experience, and the supplier is reputable. The place I use is happy for people to check over the tyres before fitting (I've had 3 sets off them so 12 tyres and only had to reject one which had a similar gouge to the OP. Was a little disappointed that one was damaged and they were apologetic.

Out of interest, how do you check over a part worn tyre properly?

 

[rjk]

Part worns are fine if checked properly in my experience, and the supplier is reputable. The place I use is happy for people to check over the tyres before fitting (I've had 3 sets off them so 12 tyres and only had to reject one which had a similar gouge to the OP. Was a little disappointed that one was damaged and they were apologetic.

I have never had to reject any new tyre that I have purchased.

wasn't there a mental thread on here a while back where a part worn tyre caused massive problems or it was 20 years old or something daft?

I think that needs linking tbh

 

[mattyfez]

So long as it doesnt rain...

Erm

6th place out of 54 tyres in this 2013 test? (and best in the wet)?

The best in the dry was the Dunlop at 35.5 metres, and the best in the wet was the Continental at 42.5 metres.

http://www.tyrereviews.co.uk/Article/2013-54-Tyre-Braking-Test.htm

 

[The Running Man]

Out of interest, how do you check over a part worn tyre properly?

The same way you'd go about checking any tyre after conducting an emergency stop?

 

[paradigm]

The same way you'd go about checking any tyre after conducting an emergency stop?

How would doing an emergency stop damage the internal structure of the sidewall?

How can you check the internal structure of the sidewall to ensure that your *bargain* part-worns haven't been bumped up kerbs or run at too low a tyre pressure?

 

[hurfdurf]

Why do you think Germany removes tyres sooner? Have a think about the reason

Corporate greed made possible by having friends in government force its consumers to purchase their products more often

 

[danza]

If one of the tyres on my car went pop and the tyre on the other side had 5 or 6mm tread left, I'd have absolutely no qualms buying a matching part-worn providing I could see it before fitting it to the car and it was cheap enough.

 

[Orionaut]

Corporate greed made possible by having friends in government force its consumers to purchase their products more often

Pretty much the main pressure on increasing minimum thickness's in the UK comes from the Tyre industry!

Of course, Tyres are an interesting engineering compromise problem.

ANY wear from new reduces the wet performance! It is not a simple issue of Good/Bad (Like say a bulb).

The question is how much of a performance hit over new is considered acceptable. Since accidents which are specifically noted as being as a result of Tyres being below the current min thickness are rare, I would say we probably have the compromise about right. Possibly even on the cautious side.

Increasing the min thickness will have little effect on accident rates while significantly increasing motoring costs and increasing an already substantial disposal problem (I think the UK already has to deal with disposing of about 40 Million worn tyres a year! This is a non-trivial problem!)

 

[mattyfez]

If one of the tyres on my car went pop and the tyre on the other side had 5 or 6mm tread left, I'd have absolutely no qualms buying a matching part-worn providing I could see it before fitting it to the car and it was cheap enough.

6mm is basically brand new isn't it? May as well chuck a new one on.

I don't buy part worn tyres but if I did I would think it's only work considering if the good tyre is 3-4mm, any lower you may as well buy a new pair, and any higher just buy one new one?

 

[mattyfez]

Corporate greed made possible by having friends in government force its consumers to purchase their products more often

I'm not so sure, soaking wet road at a decent speed with 1.6mm tread and even the best tyre will be in trouble if you need to do much steering.. The question is where you draw the line, of course tyre companies have a vested interest in selling more and you can't argue with physics, any loss of tread depth will result in some kind of deficiency in the wet..

Personally I find tyres on the legal minimum to be too twitchy for my liking in the wet and generally get new ones before that, basically when I feel I'm loosing confidence in them.

 

[Matt82]

Ive seen shocking part worn tyres that were as good as perished to death