Run-flat repairs?

I'm failing to see how that's an improvement on looking at the inside of the tyres.

Mike Tomlinson gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

Hahahahahahaha... It's normally a bad enough job getting them replaced short of being illegal...

I frequently find that people have replaced perfectly good tyres, often because they need one or two and decide to buy a matching set. So that is at least one or two per car that come onto the secondhand market. 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.

In article , Adrian writes

There must be some fleet managers out there with scruples. Not many, probably, but... :o)

I can't believe that all part-worns come from writeoffs.

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.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Mrcheerful" saying something like:

Exactly. Most of it's hysterical bullshit.

So if you buy a secondhand car with apparently good tyres you immediately replace them?

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...

"Dave Plowman (News)" gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

Well, the last two cars I've bought have had all four perfectly legal tyres replaced fairly soon after purchase, yes.

'vulcanised puncture repairs'

ROTFL! Maybe I was thinking steel radials.

And some car dealers (including supermarkets) will get a set of brand new tyres put on to help sell a car, and the rest may well get flogged as part-worns.

How many quotes have you got that end up in your sigs? I remember nicking that one about 10 years ago for a sig on my emails.....

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