Second hand tyre shops & tyres

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Fri 11 Dec 2009 14:16
Second hand tyre shops & tyres - piston power
A lad here at work just asked were there is a second hand tyre shop i said why bother with old casings when new tyres are cheap enough, just showed him the internet prices of blackcircle & mytyres plus a few others compared to fast fit prices.

He seemed quite shocked that they were cheaper, would you bother buying second hand tyres?

Years back there was lots of small tyre shops in old corner buildings etc but i don't see them now or im not looking!

I know they came in from europe where the legal limit was 3-4mm? & sold as runners from the lads at fast fit places making a few quid.

I have bought some second hand tyres but they came on rims off another car and could see them inflated and checked them fully over so the piece of mind was there when fitted to mine.
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Fri 11 Dec 2009 16:16
Second hand tyre shops & tyres - bell boy
you can always tellwhen we are in recession as car tyres get balder
i shut my tyre bay in the last big recession as customers werent replacing bald tyres
my maion business was part worn/remould
back then 20 years ago new tyres cheap like firestones/kumho etc were only just being imported and denting the big boys of michelin/avon /pirreli
my casings came from germany/scrapyard/local fast fit places
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Fri 11 Dec 2009 16:54
Second hand tyre shops & tyres - Simon
Another source of part worn tyres are ones that get swapped at mainstream tyre centres, where say one tyre is much more worn than another and the customer prefers to have a matching pair. Plus tyres that get punctured and aren't repaired and refitted for whatever reason (say the customer doesn't want a repaired tyre or the customer was told that the tyre couldn't be repaired safely to force them to buy a new one) are then put to one side, repaired at a later time and then flogged on to a part worn tyre dealer for a tidy profit. Believe me it happens!
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