Part-worn tyre on a spare rim. How much to remove it, & fit to a rim from another car, removing the tyre from the "new" rim first?
So:
Remove tyre from rim X.
Remove tyre from rim Y.
Re-fit tyre from rim X to rim Y.
Any ideas ? :)
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All the big chains will refuse you on grounds of not insured. A smaller back street independent? £15 - £20 inc valve and balance I guess.
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What insurance would be invalid in these circumstances? The fitters under some liability arrangement or the driver for having some mismatch in his tyres
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What next? Part-worn brake pads, discs, recycled airbags? :)
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I had a set of tyres that covered less than thousand miles on a BMW these were replaced with a new set of alloys with new tyres should I have thrown the old tyres away likewise I bought two secondhand michelin run flats for my x type with 8mm tread for under half what a new pair cost .When I put mywinter tyres on the car in do I throw them away every year or do I use them the year after I wonder.
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It depends what part-worn means. Nearly new, or Scrooge-like trying to extract the final legal half millimetre of use?
I had this done a few years ago and it cost me a packet of cigarettes. More recently I had a new tyre fitted to a caravan wheel and it cost £10.
Now I do it myself.
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Now I do it myself.
How do you get the tyre off the rim?
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>> How do you get the tyre off the rim?
Traditional method, use the weight of the car on a jack. Better, use a jack between two stout gateposts.
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FT - go and find an independent because the likes of Kwik Fit etc., will charge you as already mentioned.
Have you asked at the place that normally services or provides tyres for your vehicles too?
As a loyal customer, they may do it for the cost of the valve & balance.
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£5.
Even Kwik fit did it for me once for no more than that. (I changed cars; wheels were same size, swapped my own part worns for the nearly worn out on my new car.)
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>>What insurance would be invalid in these circumstances?
Professional Indemnity maybe, I'm not sure. I only mentioned it because I tried to get my part worn (still had 4-5mm of tread on all) Potenzas refitted after running on winter tyres and I was refused saying that they couldn't guarantee the tyres I was asking and paying to fit had no faults. Same story at next two hence my trip to a local independent.
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I have also found great reluctance from many tyre depots when it comes to fitting 'customer's own tyres'.
All they really seem interested in is selling you a brand-new tyre - just trying to maximise profit, I guess.
For those vehemently opposed to the idea of part-worns, would you go out and change all four tyres on a second-hand car you'd just bought - if they had 6mm tread on them? Surely you can't 'know where they've been' before your stewardship?
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For those vehemently opposed to the idea of part-worns would you go out and >>change all four tyres on a second-hand car you'd just bought - if they had 6mm tread on them? Surely you can't 'know where they've been' before your stewardship?
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valid point socky old chap....but surely there's a difference between carrying on with what you've got...and actively fitting something second hand....particularly when tyres are so important
if you moved into a new house with tatty, but acceptable windows, you'd keep them until you could change them....but would you then fit second hand ones?... and windows aren't essential safety items are they
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>>but would you then fit second hand ones>>
Yes. I hunted down secondhand wooden sash windows rather than fit new plastic ones.
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If you're in Birmingham try on of the tyre dealers around Ladypool Road. They charge a fiver to swap tyres over, with balancing but keeping the original valve.
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when you take a tyre off a rim you will notice part of the bead will be stuck to the rim
you then take another tyre off another rim and the same problem
you then put the first tyre on the second rim and you have the beading sitting on the rim but not where the bits are missing (im assuming the tyre fitter has bright cleaned the rim and not damaged your alloy lacquer or gone through the paint so he doesnt get complained at that your rims are going rusty since he fitted your tyres)
so he has fitted your 4 tyres and guess what 2 have gone flat in the morning due to bead leaks
well known fitting place gets a roasting on here with bad publicity and our tommy (he used to be a farmer) from north of the borders is also upset
you can now see why tyre bays dont want to fit s/h tyres as they are a liability
new tyre new bead no problem see
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What's the diffence between a part worn (i.e. used) car with part worn brakes, tyres, airbags, seatbelts, engine, gearbox etc. and buying and fitting the same?
Strange that people will happily have a used car with a 5 year old airbag and not accept a 5 year old identical airbag from an identical car. Where is the difference?
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when you take a tyre off a rim you will notice part of the bead will be stuck to the rim....
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you can now see why tyre bays dont want to fit s/h tyres as they are a liability
So by that logic, repairing punctures is a no-no too?
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