yeah, I was expecting to see some chinese knockoff quality and what the difference between the real and fake is... very misleading title. And instead the video is telling me ''big cuts in the tyre are dangerous''... no shit, everyone knows that.
I just can't believe people cheap out on tyres it's the only thing that keeps you on the road I have potenzas 003 never had a problem with them but they are expensive but they are worth it
@Mathieu Morin I'm a mechanical engineer and I still wonder why people can't bring the car and for regular maintenance or do it themselves and shit like this wouldn't happen
I had one do that , it was NOT caused by tyres , but fortunately it was on tenner each tyres so I never wasted two hundred quid , second hand tyres are not a problem , people selling / buying bad ones is a problem , I used to do 3day camp for mainly female but some male customers in summer , all eager to learn each service thier own car under supervision , then discuss what we did around campfire in the eve , I did this prior to retirement , but am still in semi ret mode , I still get asked to do this , now for customers kids and grandchildren , maybe end of June if weather good may run one more ,
garages shouldnt be selling them but it's also the drivers responsibility to check if the tyres are actually road worthy. People need to take responsibility for their cars.
@@mohammadeesa2910 That's due to a lack of care imo, there's plenty of information about it out there. And at least in my country it was mandatory to know that stuff to get a licence, it could be different in the UK but I doubt it.
@@dale-fi1fi All my vehicles I've used part worns. Tyres with 4-5mm tread will last 20,000+ miles. £20 a tyre for 2 year useage. I don't have flashy cars, nor do I drive like a cock.
Nothing wrong with part worn tyres, we all drive on them every day. Often a car will be scrapped with a good set of tyres on it. Or someone will decide to buy a new set of tyres before the lod ones are worn out. Maybe because they want a quieter tyre, or a number of other reasons.
That's not the problem in the video it's part worn tires that are absolutely junk that budgle on the tire means it's no good period and actually could blowout
You are absolutely correct. I had a tire that was irreparably damaged a few months ago. Because I spend to much time on the road, sometimes as much as 300 miles away from home, I did not want 3 tires with half thread, and 1 new one. So I bought a set of 4 new ones, the tire shop that changed the tires kept my 3 old ones to sell to someone else. The 3 they kept had half thread remaining.
It would appear the only fake thing here is this program. People are fitting faulty tyres not fake tyres. If I fit a starter motor that does not work the starter motor is faulty not fake. As with any used item it is either fit for purpose or not.
Indeed. Fake is when the tyre has Dunlop printed on the side, but it's not actually a Dunlop tyre. A real Dunlop tyre with a gash, is a faulty Dunlop tyre.
If that's what you think then it seems that you are unfamiliar with doing something for the greater good. All the traffic on the road making it take an hour just to get to work must give you some idea of how many people drive. Now, given how expensive cars are to run, a high percentage of this large number must be relying on part-worn tyres. I even used part-worn tyres after picking up two flat tyres thanks to a big pothole. Two weeks later one went flat. When me and my dad were changing it as a policeman surpervised (the officer said his presence was necessary because it happened on a busy dual carriageway at rush hour) , I noticed the tyre that went flat had a crack on the wall. After having seen this, I consider myself lucky it didn't turn as ugly as it could have.
These two trading standards officers, don't know much about tyres, so they shouldn't be doing this job. The rim protector damage at 12:32 is only cosmetic, and does not make the tyre unsafe unless the sidewall cords are exposed. Steve, the tyre expert, is the only person who knows what he is doing in this video.
That makes a divers fault Not tyre fault New expensive tyre´s will be the best but who can pay and it is also a environment thing making cars and tyre´s and not use it
6:45 yes great test guys. Let’s drive a Volvo on a wet race track, turning at speed. We aren’t going to see any skidding are we 😂 Even with brand new tyres you would be all over the place
New Ling Long tires are like 240€ All 4 with that price. How is it expensive?😂 Like what? And even a blind wanker knows when tire is safe to use or too long gone..
The problem is not so much the fact that these tyres are part worn, but the fact that the some of the people selling them are selling tyres with potentially dangerous faults. Properly checked part worn tyres should be fine to use. Providing the above is adhered to.
I'm really sure the tyre might explode when I inflate it, i'll put it in this cage here and stay less then a meter away with no ear protection. Yep, i'm very concerned.
@@Justpassingb1 You can tell a bold tyre from a legal one instantly. Even before ever getting in a car to drive for the first time.. If YOU pay attention..
i have to agree man its a tool people use EVERYDAY and your life is in it.....learn about the dangers, educate yourself!!! but they should not be selling them but thats business and i like PRIVATE groups getting together to oust them and get them out of business
Nothing wrong with buying part worn tyres if you know what to check for, I can normally get full sets of toyo, Pirelli, Michelin and continental tyres from £40 - £80 a set with 6mm of tread, no repairs and good sidewalls. So much better than new budget tyres.
the test is a load of bollox . 1. it was wet. cheep new tyres wouldent handle eather. 2 a new or part worn tyre could lose air. bead or leaky valve. or pick up a nail first day. 3 the tyres that they used. probaly the wort tyres they could find. the only problem is that the sellers dident check the tyres. they are not fakes
Bbc in a nutshell ....... Natural selection in effect if a tyre costs 150£ each and you can get a 10£ replacement there shuld be a fucking thought going throu your own head
The reason tyres fail is because the stupid bint driving the car has never checked the pressure, and didn't notice that it was nearly flat on the kerb. The reason that these tyres then go on to cause a problem is that these girls then drive like it's a rally, but cant deal with the skid. If you are a woman who checks your tyre pressure regularly please ignore this.
People should be required to have much more knowledge about vehicles before driving. If you can't determine the condition of a tyre you shouldn't be driving. It's like a tradesman not knowing what different tools are and just using what they're given.
The amount of people ( including men) that can't do basic tasks such as filling the windscreen washer bottle , checking the oil and coolant levels or inflating tyres is ridiculous . As for changing a wiper blade they might as well have a go at brain surgery!.
@@Dwainpipe21 to be fair some wipers on new cars are like solving a Rubik's cube 😂 but in all seriousness I work in a garage and see all kinds of people that don't know the basics .
When you buy a secondhand car, it has part worn tyres. There's no problem if you use a reputable dealer. I've been buying part worns from a company in our town for twenty years. Sometimes it's hard to tell them apart from new tyres. Just be vigilant.
they're no longer here to "get it right" but to get as many viewers as possible. They are alass as fake as the subjects they present now. Pity they couldn't even fit 4 same tyres to the car that they said was using fake tyres... No bloody wonder it wouldn't drive correctly. Journalists ............
Fully agreed. If you buy used tires, inspect them first. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to see cracks, holes, bulges, age tag, etc.... im running used bridgestones
Every car and every other vehicle is driving on part worn tyre, as soon as you leave the garage after your new tyres have been fitted they start to wear and are therefore part worn. The problem is not the "part worn" aspect its the faulty bit, ie they're defective.
I find it hilarious how serious they make this sound, when in Asia and South America there's millions of cars/buses/trucks with Chinese tyres made of soft plastic, patched up 20 times with the strands showing.
"I was devastated" Yeah sure, you knew what you were doing when you went to some dodgy garage to get some £10 part worn tires instead of paying £50 a corner for new ones
There is nothing wrong with using part worn tyres. This is the BBC doing its consumer scaremongering best and in doing so supporting the tyre manufacturers who are interested only in profit. As for that woman she was the perfect stooge, turning on tears for the camera.
@@patwilliam543 Not particularly quality sports and performance tyres will wear out much faster then cheaper alternatives becuase they're made from a softer compound that gives extra grip at the expense of tyre life.
70 mph at night on the M4 and felt like i hit a small stone. car starts to veer left,as i compensate it just goes..... it was a front tyre blowing out. after 4 x 360 and a 180 degree spins i end up on the hard shoulder facing the wrong way,with brown trousers. 4 brand new £178 each tyres fitted 2 days earlier. the dangers are not just with part worns.
Whenever you buy a car you are buying 4 PART WORN TYRES! Each day people buy used cars. Are we all risking our lives by doing so?? Also consider that every time you sit in your car you are driving at least partly worn tyres. Should we all stop driving? How about this fact - when you buy part worn tyres you can personally inspect them inside and out and also have it looked over by a professional. Such assurances are totally absent when you buy a car privately or second hand. Even main dealerships do not remove each tyre and inspect it on their second hand cars. Thus logically we are all using part worn tyres equally. But those who have purchased part worn tyres know theirs have been checked over by a professional. I buy brand new online though ;-) it's worth it if you plan on driving the tyre to the end of its life. Extra tread means extra life for a tyre
The article doesn't say that it's only tyres from wrecks we're talking about. I think that 99% of people who watch this show will believe that it's about part worn tyres. There aren't enough wrecks to go around to give every car a set of Tyres by a very long shot
That's a fair point, but I would never CHOOSE to fit them. Yeah if the car comes with them I will use them. The only exception is if I buy a car and it's got a different tyre on every corner they get changed to 4 matching pretty sharpish.
Possibly if you buy right at the top end of the premium market and through somewhere like Kwikfit. My car wears 225/45 R18 (95(Y) and I can get Michelin / Dunlop / Conti etc for under £150 each.
I remember going for part worns frequently & I always used one garage as the tyres looked pretty much as new (some even still had the little pips on them) but twice they had screwed me over. One had a puncture & another was made of a strange compound which give no grip in any road condition. Even on a bright sunny day on an abrasive road (in my car which i know the limits of) I was still finding the car under steering when I turned against that tyre. I now use a more common size of tyre on my car (originally 135/80/R13 & now 155/70/R13) so new tyres cost pretty much the same as the part worns I used to buy
Consumers are so naive, they're so weary of part worn tyres but happily: -buy budget tyres which have a very poor performance -mis match tyres (different brands, mix worn/new tyres, tyre sizes) which is very obviously dangerous but always ignored -fail to get the correct size of tyre (width, aspect ratio, speed rating, load index)
The idea that you must have all the same tyres is a complete fallacy under normal driving conditions used by companies to get people to buy more than one tyre, apart from when you mix and match winter and standard tyres.
@@patwilliam543 So you are one of those scumbags who has a different tyre on each wheel. You shouldn't be driving. The rear tyres should match each other as should the fronts. On an AWD or 4WD vehicle all tyres must be exactly the same.
Best advice. Learn to protect your current tyres. Drive at constant speeds, use correct gear changes, reduce heavy braking, concentrate more on how you drive. These tips will give you thousands more miles with your tyres. Simples.
my dad was an advanced driving instructor,always said..dont use part worn or remolds,,and dont hang stuff from your mirror you are not in your living room,all decorations do that,and keep your attention from outside,,,its now my 30th year with a clean driving licence :-)
1:30 my partner told me where to go (to get the tyres). So this lady is 4 kids deep with a bloke, and still doesn’t want the commitment of marriage? You are already pretty committed love. Everything that is wrong with Britain.
The bloke is clearly not good either. He should have known better than to let his woman fit 4 part worn tyres to a car his kids and his partner will be in. Seriously I wouldn't let anyone I know do something so stupid let alone someone I love.
I only buy cheap part worn tyres and they are just fine. Remember we don't have the autobahn in UK. The motorway speed is around 40mph these days. Watch nails on the road.
@MachineGunIt lol assuming ur being serious here then women want to drive but don't want to learn how to maintain their car ! double standards are ok when its a woman still eh
This is a very misleading article... There are good some very good part worn tyres out there that there is no problems with and these tyres are better then cheap new tyres. This lady in this article also needs to bare some of the blame as see as the driver of here car needs to inspect her tyres. and remember that every time you buy a second hand car you are buying part worn tyres..
Tyres on a car are of extreme importance, especially, in a country like the UK, where weather is so unpredictable. However, part worn undamaged tyres are a good buy as long as they support ample tread and have not been repaired, especially, their sides. Unfortunately, there are unscrupulous people who flog dangerous tyres. Most tyres vendors are honest and professionals. They do provide free tyre checks.
To be honest this is mostly a dig at part worn tyres to make people buy brand new for like £120 a tyre! my local garage sells part worn tyres and i have always had part worn as i refuse to pay ridiculous prices, take Halfords for example for 4 new tyres all season would cost you over £160 a tyre! part worn not even £60 at my local garage! There is part worn tyres that are perfectly fine then there is part worn tyres that are illegal and are dangerous but this episode just paints overall part worn tyres as bad, always use a friend or a local garage you know about who would never sell you dangerous tyres, if you just drive to a random cheap garage you've never been to before and just put all your faith in their word then thats on you! they want money they dont care if your tyre explodes! Part worn tyres will always be a popular choice due to cost and i will continue to use part worn that are just as good anyway! just nonsense about less grip and handling! so when a brand new tyre wears down do they become illegal and unsafe? that test they did was just a guy doing sharp turns on a water soaking track, proved nothing! why didn't they show us the difference with him doing the same test with 4 brand new tyres? every car being turned like that will lose abit of traction and start to drift...for a part worn tyre to be legal it has to have plenty of tread left and any car with above minimum tread will grip the road the same as any other tyre, also what tyres did they use on the track? probably summer...always get all season! even if it means putting up with a little more road noise.
I buy part worn tires, difference is i inspect every one i buy. Thread wear, date stamp, bulges, holes, nails but even more importantly cracks, they didn't even mention cracks in the rubber when the rubber vulcanizes and the thread can come right off
If they are being passed off as a genuine thing (white stamped part-worn tyres) and are not genuine they are fake. You cannot argue with a definition unless you are an idiot.
i have a little fact here people might not know but the size tyre your car comes with isn't always the best size for your car and some times is way more expensive than the next size up or down. car manufacturers put odd sizes on cars because they have deals with tyre brands and want you to buy the specific tyre. for example there is a size 275/65/17, 265/65/17 and 265/70r17, all these sizes are so similar that the average person could not tell the difference but they are all different prices. it is like this with every type and size of tyre
There's a reason people dispose of them part worn. I'd also change the regs on tread depth from 1.6mm to 2mm. Minimum industry and legislative standards for tyres are far too low in this country. There are many tyres on the market which should NEVER be offered for sale. This would have the effect of bringing down the price of decent upper-mid segment and premium segment tyres. Thus everyone will be safer. And everyone gets to enjoy driving a car which handles properly.
Nothing wrong with part worns. Sometimes theyre actually better. You can buy a premium part worn like Bridgestone or Michelin for less than the price of a chinese Wanly or Triangle for instance which will be totally crap in the wet and wear out much quicker than the premium make part worn..
Most chinese tyres are good. Good tread, & made out of the same compounds & rubber. Making tyres isn't rocket science & is very well known throughout the industry. China is very good at what they do. When it comes to making tyres no joe blogs can make one. It takes a considerable amount of machinery to make a tyre. & the chinese can make them well.
The Chinese can make good products. What the Chinese are good at are giving the west what it wants and the majority of people just want cheap crap. The Chinese love it because there is more mark up in crap then quality, we keep demanding it and so the cycle goes on.
bridgestone has 3 factories in china, saying a whole country is shit based on a few rubbish brands is utter hogwash, don't be racist and lets all agree that premium tyres are better than bargain cheap tyres.
I use a local tyre place. Got 2 Pirelli tyres part worn for the taxi rear £25 each. Still on the car 30k miles later. Been through 4 sets on the front, various kinds and they’ve been spot on.
every tyre on the road is a part worn tyre from the minute it has been fitted abd run on the road. Does that mean we all have unsafe tyres on our cars. Most part worn tyre dealers sell safe tyres which have been tested and are fit for selling and use on the roads.
Look at it this way Cat b cars unsafe to be reused on road have there tyres removed and sold in garages. Big difference between owning a new car and driving 5 miles in it thus making your tyre part worn .. Or having a head on Collison and rolling car because it was stolen and ragged at 100mph in Brum. Don't think part worns come of unsafe cars. And don't think they check them. Fuck do they..
denis mc keague So? There can be any number of reasons why someone has chopped in their tyres. Perhaps the car was scrapped, or they didn't like the ride or noise of their current tyres or maybe they just decided to change them all for convenience. Part worn tyres are not necessarily dangerous and certainly not fake.
Okay, I'm impressed with the quality of the tire repair they mentioned was done by a non-licensed repair shop. I've done worse and have taken my car to the maximum speed on the Autobahn, and nothing happened. How much of this all is fear-mongery ? There are tires that come from the factory with known weaknesses that can explode under normal driving conditions, or brand-name tires that are sold even though they're well over 10 years old. But that is all legal, right?
The beads can leak on a new tyre(fault or dirt on rim)... so the leaky part warn test is inconclusive. I used to fit Part warn Tyres nearly 15 years ago, and if there was a Bulge in it i wouldnt put it on the car..... But i do know some one who used to...
I nevery understood why people would pay for expensive huge aloy wheels and then buy second hand liw profile old tyre. I drive on 13' steel wheels and high profiles. Tyre is cheap.
Some people don't realise that once you increase your wheel size you increase the weight (also having the weight further from the hub worsens things). Not only bad for fuel consumption but also handling. Ultra low profile tyres have a smaller footprint even if they are wider than the originals because they don't squash out like tyres with decent side wall. No squash means they sit higher increasing the cars centre of gravity. Lots to think of if you want to do it right, the biggest wheel and lowest profile tyre will simply slow you down, burn more fuel, give an uncomfortable jittery ride and reduce handling ability... But when your 16 none of that matters.
Big question is, where did those tyres comes from and eventually, ends up in the market?? If these tyres were imported by the adjacent countries through shipping and various mode of transportations. Then ,why didn't the custom 👮 officer seized after processing the clearance.
Always check used tyres. After all it's the tyre that. Touches the ground. For me new tyres always over used. Yes they cost more but you are less likely to deal with these problems.
the government arent bothered about safety, which is why you only get an on the spot fine and no points for no mot, yet for no insurance you get your car confiscated and points on your licence, obviously its money thats important, not peoples lives
2:35 The indentation in one tyre at the corner of the side and the base is reparable, however, punctured / cut on the side wall of a tyre can be dangerous at high speed. What is high speed? I can start at anything over 60 mph. Yes, the pressure at that speed can and does exert heated air and may burst. All tyres have weight and speed ratings. Fake tyres are not better or worse that ordinary normal tyres. Tyres are affected by the weather, road condition and vehicle operator's training and vigilance. There is a big corruption in tyre industry at large. Profit margins have skyrocketed and everyone is on the take. Majority of Tyres sold in Europe and America are not manufactured locally. All big names of Tyre companies are manufacturing their Tyres in low labour cost countries under their set standards and supervision.
So much bullshit people are saying on these coments. I work in a tyre garage, and see several times a week part worn tyres that are deadly. normaly picked up because the car comes in with bad handling so they ask for tracking to be checked. during checks these tyres have been inflated over double the correct pressure, unbalanced and too often bad repairs. What they mean by fake, is untested untrustworthy tyres stamped as checked/safe. Too many people care more about money then the safty of others.
Most drivers are hideously ignorant when it comes to tyres. They have no idea about the value of tyres and full four wheel alignment. I only premium segment tyres now. Upper-mids are perfectly good to drive on but the tread wear is generally faster than a top end tyre.
Half the price of new tyres and no one will have to go for part worn .... if the safety of road users is a priority then stop the industry and government ripping every driver off
if all the tyres need replacing then get new but if you get one that is punctured and cant be repaired then just get a part worn one. There are plenty of part worn tyre places that can do cheap and decent tyres that will better match the other tyres.
I’ve bought second hand tyres all my life, never had a single problem. But you should always quickly check the tyre thread and condition before purchase for peace of mind.
Im an ex tyre fitter, done em all, car ,commercial, agricultural, plant, blah blah, I use pre owned tyres too, I do a visual on tyre before it's fitted, and afterwards, check for cuts, bulges ,etc. Also you can buy a brand new tyre, drive over glass, or bash a kerb ,and ruin your tyre in minutes. New or second hand, the road doesn't discriminate. And yes it's true, sometimes care are scrapped after new tyres were fitted, MOT failures, or fleet cars, where the driver simply wants brand new tyres fitted, seen it many times in the trade. A new tyre has around 8 millimetres of tread, I've seen em changed with 5-6 mm remaining, so they're good value second hand.
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They are not fake, they are defective. Get your terminology right!
yeah, I was expecting to see some chinese knockoff quality and what the difference between the real and fake is... very misleading title.
And instead the video is telling me ''big cuts in the tyre are dangerous''... no shit, everyone knows that.
Its fake in the sense that they are not certified part-worns.
Exactly, Duke. If something is not a genuine part-worn then it's a fake part-worn...
no mate , its not fake , its utter bull shit to say they are ''Fake''
mastergx1 I guess they meant “faking the quality” and not knockoffs
Can you believe it, a car starting to lose grip on a water-soaked skidpan?!
John Smith ikr lol
While doing 70mph
I just can't believe people cheap out on tyres it's the only thing that keeps you on the road I have potenzas 003 never had a problem with them but they are expensive but they are worth it
@Mathieu Morin I'm a mechanical engineer and I still wonder why people can't bring the car and for regular maintenance or do it themselves and shit like this wouldn't happen
😂😂😂 i came to the comments and was not disappointed
That first woman crying over unsafe tyres when her Zafira could spontaneously combust at any moment
I know right.., proper council chav she is, on TV admitting bought cheap tyres for her cheap car and then went blood thirsty about it?
I had one do that , it was NOT caused by tyres , but fortunately it was on tenner each tyres so I never wasted two hundred quid , second hand tyres are not a problem , people selling / buying bad ones is a problem , I used to do 3day camp for mainly female but some male customers in summer , all eager to learn each service thier own car under supervision , then discuss what we did around campfire in the eve , I did this prior to retirement , but am still in semi ret mode , I still get asked to do this , now for customers kids and grandchildren , maybe end of June if weather good may run one more ,
Hahaha ys that's true who.buys part worn anyway
It wasn't the model affected.
@@TheOptimod any one who buys a second hand car
garages shouldnt be selling them but it's also the drivers responsibility to check if the tyres are actually road worthy. People need to take responsibility for their cars.
elobiretv so true. So many people just expect the yearly mot & service to tell them every thing about their car.
You are right but some drivers don't know how to check air in tyres oil and water level so how can they check tyres they are safe to use or not
elobiretv. It’s all the EUs fault
elobiretv that's the problem nobody takes responsibility for anything anymore they've all become fucking morons
@@mohammadeesa2910 That's due to a lack of care imo, there's plenty of information about it out there. And at least in my country it was mandatory to know that stuff to get a licence, it could be different in the UK but I doubt it.
Narrator: 98% of part worn tyres are unsafe
Trading standards: go round London and seize 3 tyres.
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Ano i was taking the whole thing really seriously until i heard that bullshit statistic
Part worn tyres are perfect for drifting and burnouts. Less perfect for daily use, but certainly not fake
can't you check the tyres before purchase? don't people have eyes anymore?
or dont ever ever! buy part worn brand new every time in the long run its saves you money as part worn aren't guna last long at all
@@dale-fi1fi unless you can find good ones with like 50% or more tread. but yeh id never buy second hand tyres
@@dale-fi1fi All my vehicles I've used part worns. Tyres with 4-5mm tread will last 20,000+ miles. £20 a tyre for 2 year useage. I don't have flashy cars, nor do I drive like a cock.
1:16 kid isn't even in a seatbelt and you're worried about a part worn tyre.
They are, go back another 10-15 and you will see the seatbelts are a weird design. This was also in the days of backless boosters.
She needs to get a grip(pun not intended). Yes it wasn’t the wisest thing but crying about it is just cringe.
The part worn tyre assaulted her. She's part of the #metoo movement.
Nothing wrong with part worn tyres, we all drive on them every day. Often a car will be scrapped with a good set of tyres on it.
Or someone will decide to buy a new set of tyres before the lod ones are worn out. Maybe because they want a quieter tyre, or a number of other reasons.
That's not the problem in the video it's part worn tires that are absolutely junk that budgle on the tire means it's no good period and actually could blowout
You are absolutely correct. I had a tire that was irreparably damaged a few months ago. Because I spend to much time on the road, sometimes as much as 300 miles away from home, I did not want 3 tires with half thread, and 1 new one. So I bought a set of 4 new ones, the tire shop that changed the tires kept my 3 old ones to sell to someone else. The 3 they kept had half thread remaining.
Yes I realize that :)
you should probably watch the video again...
It would appear the only fake thing here is this program.
People are fitting faulty tyres not fake tyres.
If I fit a starter motor that does not work the starter motor is faulty not fake.
As with any used item it is either fit for purpose or not.
Indeed. Fake is when the tyre has Dunlop printed on the side, but it's not actually a Dunlop tyre. A real Dunlop tyre with a gash, is a faulty Dunlop tyre.
BBC language, to make the report look good. They do it so well.
30 years in testing tyres ? Steve has wasted his life
What's your job?
paul backhard Well Steve has possibly saved your life
aldwin villar Not everyone lives in Britain idiot.
If that's what you think then it seems that you are unfamiliar with doing something for the greater good. All the traffic on the road making it take an hour just to get to work must give you some idea of how many people drive. Now, given how expensive cars are to run, a high percentage of this large number must be relying on part-worn tyres. I even used part-worn tyres after picking up two flat tyres thanks to a big pothole. Two weeks later one went flat. When me and my dad were changing it as a policeman surpervised (the officer said his presence was necessary because it happened on a busy dual carriageway at rush hour) , I noticed the tyre that went flat had a crack on the wall. After having seen this, I consider myself lucky it didn't turn as ugly as it could have.
Hunt Guy well the OP spelt it as tYres so it's likely he is from UK... And aldwin said 'possibly' 🙄
i think the real trouble with rubber is in the bedroom
Yeah...As a joke...that's pretty pish.
Beat me to it.
It's like liking honey through glass.... without rubber you can enjoy weekends in a park with kids....👍
There's not a big market in part worn condoms to be honest obviously some slip through.
more like never uses the breaks
Most of the stuff they saying is a load of poo
What did she expect for £10 per tyre???
Cheapskate..
irk, 2nd hand shit tyres ain't gonna last long compared to some new contis or other good brand
Well atleast here where I live you can get decent used tires for about 10€ each
Part worn premium tyres are unreal for the price. Can’t beat them
If you get lucky tho. Also for what reason are these being traded in?
@@leenevin8451 most are changed on a pre set contract basis for leased cars regardless of how badly they're worn or how much use they've had.
These two trading standards officers, don't know much about tyres, so they shouldn't be doing this job. The rim protector damage at 12:32 is only cosmetic, and does not make the tyre unsafe unless the sidewall cords are exposed. Steve, the tyre expert, is the only person who knows what he is doing in this video.
By the rim protector you mean bead and by sidewall cords you mean radial plies looks like you don't know what you're talking about either
@@user-dt5ro no pal you ain't got a clue
Simply answer is, don't cheap out buying tires. Not a difficult concept, especially of seeing how they're the only contact point with the road.
'Cause everyone goes around a sharp bend in the rain at full speed and expects to get round it with no problems
prolly in the UK bunch of mongs
That makes a divers fault Not tyre fault
New expensive tyre´s will be the best but who can pay and it is also a environment thing
making cars and tyre´s and not use it
in uk rain is 295 days a year mate.
With quattro? Absolutely!
6:45 yes great test guys. Let’s drive a Volvo on a wet race track, turning at speed. We aren’t going to see any skidding are we 😂 Even with brand new tyres you would be all over the place
When you buy a used car it will usually have part worn tyres on it.
Literally every tyre on the road right now is a part worn.
New Ling Long tires are like 240€
All 4 with that price.
How is it expensive?😂
Like what?
And even a blind wanker knows when tire is safe to use or too long gone..
@@0hjaa3.06 Would rather have part worn premium brand, than new cheap chinese ditch finders.
@@buzzbravado7591 lol those are tested.. they are not as good as 2000€ tires but good enough for nordic countries.
...does it means it's fake too?
The problem is not so much the fact that these tyres are part worn, but the fact that the some of the people selling them are selling tyres with potentially dangerous faults.
Properly checked part worn tyres should be fine to use. Providing the above is adhered to.
I'm really sure the tyre might explode when I inflate it, i'll put it in this cage here and stay less then a meter away with no ear protection. Yep, i'm very concerned.
Those cages save lives, your ears stop ringing after a few days.
I would ask Boris Johnson and his gang to grow a pair.Put a total ban on the sale of all used tyres in the UK immediately!!
Why?
I go round a soaked skid pan flat out to test tires grip too
Tyres are supposed to disperse water and get grip from the road
if you don't know what an illegal tire looks like then you shouldn't be driving a car 😂
apparently that lady just took the tyres and drove the car off without having one single look at them.
You look like shoe laces are a challenge mate.
Just passing by ? Irrelevant,knowing if tires are safe really are the basics of driving and something every driver should know
@@Justpassingb1 You can tell a bold tyre from a legal one instantly. Even before ever getting in a car to drive for the first time.. If YOU pay attention..
i have to agree man its a tool people use EVERYDAY and your life is in it.....learn about the dangers, educate yourself!!! but they should not be selling them but thats business and i like PRIVATE groups getting together to oust them and get them out of business
Nothing wrong with buying part worn tyres if you know what to check for, I can normally get full sets of toyo, Pirelli, Michelin and continental tyres from £40 - £80 a set with 6mm of tread, no repairs and good sidewalls. So much better than new budget tyres.
the test is a load of bollox .
1. it was wet. cheep new tyres wouldent handle eather.
2 a new or part worn tyre could lose air. bead or leaky valve. or pick up a nail first day.
3 the tyres that they used. probaly the wort tyres they could find.
the only problem is that the sellers dident check the tyres. they are not fakes
This program is utter crype.
Learn to spell
matthew m iin
Bbc in a nutshell .......
Natural selection in effect if a tyre costs 150£ each and you can get a 10£ replacement there shuld be a fucking thought going throu your own head
well just so you know, partworn places are idiots. they mix winter/summer/directional on the same car. it would handle like a dog.
The reason tyres fail is because the stupid bint driving the car has never checked the pressure, and didn't notice that it was nearly flat on the kerb.
The reason that these tyres then go on to cause a problem is that these girls then drive like it's a rally, but cant deal with the skid. If you are a woman who checks your tyre pressure regularly please ignore this.
Love your youtube name that is a cunning stunt !
Part worn tires are too good that they actually have to let air out of them to simulate a SLOW PUNCTURE 🤣🤣.
Sounds like something a dodgy tyre dealer would say
the miscellaneous machine channel 🖕🖕🤣🤣
👍 exactly!
People should be required to have much more knowledge about vehicles before driving. If you can't determine the condition of a tyre you shouldn't be driving. It's like a tradesman not knowing what different tools are and just using what they're given.
The amount of people ( including men) that can't do basic tasks such as filling the windscreen washer bottle , checking the oil and coolant levels or inflating tyres is ridiculous . As for changing a wiper blade they might as well have a go at brain surgery!.
@@Dwainpipe21 to be fair some wipers on new cars are like solving a Rubik's cube 😂 but in all seriousness I work in a garage and see all kinds of people that don't know the basics .
4 new tyres fitted last month and part worn now what should I do are they safe?
When you buy a secondhand car, it has part worn tyres. There's no problem if you use a reputable dealer. I've been buying part worns from a company in our town for twenty years. Sometimes it's hard to tell them apart from new tyres. Just be vigilant.
The UK government hasn't charged "road" tax in decades. Come on BBC! Get it right!!!
they're no longer here to "get it right" but to get as many viewers as possible. They are alass as fake as the subjects they present now. Pity they couldn't even fit 4 same tyres to the car that they said was using fake tyres... No bloody wonder it wouldn't drive correctly.
Journalists ............
I would sooner have a worn out Pirrelli than a brand new DingBangWho from China.
cucking funt u made me laugh
They sell a Chinese brand called linglong in Australia, I shit you not.
Super_Slav got them here in England too mate
Fully agreed. If you buy used tires, inspect them first. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to see cracks, holes, bulges, age tag, etc.... im running used bridgestones
Last set of asian tyres i got lasted 50,000km. Never got a puncher and were perfect.
Every car and every other vehicle is driving on part worn tyre, as soon as you leave the garage after your new tyres have been fitted they start to wear and are therefore part worn. The problem is not the "part worn" aspect its the faulty bit, ie they're defective.
I find it hilarious how serious they make this sound, when in Asia and South America there's millions of cars/buses/trucks with Chinese tyres made of soft plastic, patched up 20 times with the strands showing.
"I was devastated"
Yeah sure, you knew what you were doing when you went to some dodgy garage to get some £10 part worn tires instead of paying £50 a corner for new ones
There is nothing wrong with using part worn tyres. This is the BBC doing its consumer scaremongering best and in doing so supporting the tyre manufacturers who are interested only in profit. As for that woman she was the perfect stooge, turning on tears for the camera.
A part worn michelin or goodyear ect will last longer and perform better than sumitomo ect, however the cheaper tyres are growing in quality
@@patwilliam543 Not particularly quality sports and performance tyres will wear out much faster then cheaper alternatives becuase they're made from a softer compound that gives extra grip at the expense of tyre life.
@@wetlettuce4768 but in the case of standard road tyres designed for economy and long life they will
I know right? They always pull that crap.
Okay, so if your tyres had big bulges on them, would you deem them safe to use or would you book an emergency trip to Kwik-Fit?
70 mph at night on the M4 and felt like i hit a small stone.
car starts to veer left,as i compensate it just goes.....
it was a front tyre blowing out.
after 4 x 360 and a 180 degree spins i end up on the hard shoulder facing the wrong way,with brown trousers.
4 brand new £178 each tyres fitted 2 days earlier.
the dangers are not just with part worns.
I've had part worn tyres on my cars for 10 years and never had any problem. only thing I wanan know where can I get them for a tenner :)
Whenever you buy a car you are buying 4 PART WORN TYRES! Each day people buy used cars. Are we all risking our lives by doing so?? Also consider that every time you sit in your car you are driving at least partly worn tyres. Should we all stop driving? How about this fact - when you buy part worn tyres you can personally inspect them inside and out and also have it looked over by a professional. Such assurances are totally absent when you buy a car privately or second hand. Even main dealerships do not remove each tyre and inspect it on their second hand cars. Thus logically we are all using part worn tyres equally. But those who have purchased part worn tyres know theirs have been checked over by a professional.
I buy brand new online though ;-) it's worth it if you plan on driving the tyre to the end of its life. Extra tread means extra life for a tyre
Marcus T Good point..... but I guess part worn tyres that have been removed from a car have probably been removed for a reason....
The article doesn't say that it's only tyres from wrecks we're talking about. I think that 99% of people who watch this show will believe that it's about part worn tyres. There aren't enough wrecks to go around to give every car a set of Tyres by a very long shot
Most part worns are imported from Europe, mainly Germany where they have to change their tires seasonally by law.
fake britain is largely propaganda
That's a fair point, but I would never CHOOSE to fit them. Yeah if the car comes with them I will use them. The only exception is if I buy a car and it's got a different tyre on every corner they get changed to 4 matching pretty sharpish.
£100 per tyre for a Vauxhall Zafira? I don't fucking think so.
Possibly if you buy right at the top end of the premium market and through somewhere like Kwikfit. My car wears 225/45 R18 (95(Y) and I can get Michelin / Dunlop / Conti etc for under £150 each.
@@paulanderson79just changed my L322 Range Rover tyres .. Goodyear A/T’s £920 a set!
@@carsandstuff365 Ouch! That's more than 50% more than a set on my car. RR's have large rims though.
Who puts £10 tyres on a car they drive their kids around in??
Poor.
In Serbia brand new tire 185/65R15, which is size for normal family car, costs about 45€ for winter tire and 40€ for summer one.
I pay 15 for part worns but they are always a good make and I've been buying them for 35 plus years. But I only do 4000 miles or less a year
Chavs who prefer to spend their benefits on drink and ciggies.
Someone who has 4 kids with a bloke, and refers to them as her “partner” and isn’t married to them…😂
Nothing wrong with part worn tyres. All used cars have secondhand/part worn tyres.Upshot is look after your tyres, check pressures regularly.
I remember going for part worns frequently & I always used one garage as the tyres looked pretty much as new (some even still had the little pips on them) but twice they had screwed me over. One had a puncture & another was made of a strange compound which give no grip in any road condition. Even on a bright sunny day on an abrasive road (in my car which i know the limits of) I was still finding the car under steering when I turned against that tyre. I now use a more common size of tyre on my car (originally 135/80/R13 & now 155/70/R13) so new tyres cost pretty much the same as the part worns I used to buy
Richie Roo Mk2 Fiesta 1.1 Pop Plus
Consumers are so naive, they're so weary of part worn tyres but happily:
-buy budget tyres which have a very poor performance
-mis match tyres (different brands, mix worn/new tyres, tyre sizes) which is very obviously dangerous but always ignored
-fail to get the correct size of tyre (width, aspect ratio, speed rating, load index)
The idea that you must have all the same tyres is a complete fallacy under normal driving conditions used by companies to get people to buy more than one tyre, apart from when you mix and match winter and standard tyres.
@@patwilliam543 Imo if you have FWD the front 2 should be the same and if you have RWD the back 2 should be the same
@@MrRohanThomas if you're driving aggressively or a performance car yes, but for everyday town driving 98% of people wont notice any issues
Patrick Dixon so basically 4 performance tyres for motorway driving and actually being able to around corners
@@patwilliam543 So you are one of those scumbags who has a different tyre on each wheel. You shouldn't be driving. The rear tyres should match each other as should the fronts. On an AWD or 4WD vehicle all tyres must be exactly the same.
Best advice. Learn to protect your current tyres. Drive at constant speeds, use correct gear changes, reduce heavy braking, concentrate more on how you drive. These tips will give you thousands more miles with your tyres. Simples.
John Anderson heavy breaking and hard acceleration. Mine don't last me long haha
ThatGuyNamedScott. C and burnouts 😂😂
John Anderson True
I've tried driving like a retired anal retentive driving instructor and found that it's not very enjoyable. Right back too having some heel toe fun
Foolish woman couldn't see the big hole in the tyre.
It would be really hard, if not impossible to see it if the tire was attached to the car and she was paying attention to her children
my dad was an advanced driving instructor,always said..dont use part worn or remolds,,and dont hang stuff from your mirror you are not in your living room,all decorations do that,and keep your attention from outside,,,its now my 30th year with a clean driving licence :-)
"People have put her life at risk" and now she bought new tyres driving 20 m/h in the city... thank god she's safe !!
Yep probably never seen 5th gear in its life because motorways are scary and she could kill someone 😂
@@callumcurtis15 you got this ;-)
Using part-worn tyres is asking for trouble. Sales of them should be banned.
What a beat up. The nanny state is built up on so many lies.
1:30 my partner told me where to go (to get the tyres).
So this lady is 4 kids deep with a bloke, and still doesn’t want the commitment of marriage?
You are already pretty committed love.
Everything that is wrong with Britain.
The bloke is clearly not good either. He should have known better than to let his woman fit 4 part worn tyres to a car his kids and his partner will be in. Seriously I wouldn't let anyone I know do something so stupid let alone someone I love.
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I only buy cheap part worn tyres and they are just fine. Remember we don't have the autobahn in UK. The motorway speed is around 40mph these days. Watch nails on the road.
Your partner should have took the car to get the tired change.
starbwoi1 he was to busy earning money, to buy food for the 4 children
He prob wanted her dead😂lol
THEGIZS : I can’t think of a reason might he might want the mother of his 4 children dead. Can you ?
@MachineGunIt lol assuming ur being serious here then women want to drive but don't want to learn how to maintain their car ! double standards are ok when its a woman still eh
The 1950s just called, they want your opinion back.
Anyone know the background music played at 9:11? Sounded cool!
What other product do you only consume 5% and discard the remaining 95%?
they fixed a nail in tyre without taking wheel off the car.with a bit of rubber. screwdriver. and a lighter. lasted for 10,000s of miles
“complete spinout” while turning the car
Look at that pressure gauge! @5:19. Someone send the link to buy this pressure gauge.
This is a very misleading article... There are good some very good part worn tyres out there that there is no problems with and these tyres are better then cheap new tyres. This lady in this article also needs to bare some of the blame as see as the driver of here car needs to inspect her tyres. and remember that every time you buy a second hand car you are buying part worn tyres..
And as there would be a compensation claim in the air, we have obligatory tear shedding at 4:51 to make things look more convincing.
As a professional driver. I'd never use part worn. Brand new all the way.
So you fit new tyres every time you use a car?
@@lenholloway4390 touche
What kind of professional driver ??
99% of cars on the road are using part-worn tyres. I've bought many part-worns with no issue.
Tyres on a car are of extreme importance, especially, in a country like the UK, where weather is so unpredictable. However, part worn undamaged tyres are a good buy as long as they support ample tread and have not been repaired, especially, their sides. Unfortunately, there are unscrupulous people who flog dangerous tyres. Most tyres vendors are honest and professionals. They do provide free tyre checks.
Any car tyres would slide going round a wet track at high speeds 🤣🤣
Did anyone else catch when he said "when under pressure conditions" the guy doesn't know wtf he's on about 3:32
To be honest this is mostly a dig at part worn tyres to make people buy brand new for like £120 a tyre! my local garage sells part worn tyres and i have always had part worn as i refuse to pay ridiculous prices, take Halfords for example for 4 new tyres all season would cost you over £160 a tyre! part worn not even £60 at my local garage!
There is part worn tyres that are perfectly fine then there is part worn tyres that are illegal and are dangerous but this episode just paints overall part worn tyres as bad, always use a friend or a local garage you know about who would never sell you dangerous tyres, if you just drive to a random cheap garage you've never been to before and just put all your faith in their word then thats on you! they want money they dont care if your tyre explodes!
Part worn tyres will always be a popular choice due to cost and i will continue to use part worn that are just as good anyway! just nonsense about less grip and handling! so when a brand new tyre wears down do they become illegal and unsafe? that test they did was just a guy doing sharp turns on a water soaking track, proved nothing! why didn't they show us the difference with him doing the same test with 4 brand new tyres? every car being turned like that will lose abit of traction and start to drift...for a part worn tyre to be legal it has to have plenty of tread left and any car with above minimum tread will grip the road the same as any other tyre, also what tyres did they use on the track? probably summer...always get all season! even if it means putting up with a little more road noise.
I buy part worn tires, difference is i inspect every one i buy. Thread wear, date stamp, bulges, holes, nails but even more importantly cracks, they didn't even mention cracks in the rubber when the rubber vulcanizes and the thread can come right off
Thread? :D The problem is that you are in a very tiny minority who actually checks them. Most people don't tyres at all. Premium, budget whatever.
Konrad C how can you check for bulges? In my experience, most don’t show up until inflated. Would love to know though.
There's a well known saying - anything that makes contact between you and the ground - don't cheap out on.
Do you know what fake means? These are not fake tyres, they are illegal/unsafe.
If they are being passed off as a genuine thing (white stamped part-worn tyres) and are not genuine they are fake. You cannot argue with a definition unless you are an idiot.
It's a Fake Britain video. Everything here must be fake ;)
i have a little fact here people might not know but the size tyre your car comes with isn't always the best size for your car and some times is way more expensive than the next size up or down. car manufacturers put odd sizes on cars because they have deals with tyre brands and want you to buy the specific tyre. for example there is a size 275/65/17, 265/65/17 and 265/70r17, all these sizes are so similar that the average person could not tell the difference but they are all different prices. it is like this with every type and size of tyre
Her eyebrows looks like bird wings 😂
My 4 year boy draws them perfectly
Funny how she can afford 4 kids at her age but not tyres on the car she transports them in, kids are not cheap !
There's a reason people dispose of them part worn. I'd also change the regs on tread depth from 1.6mm to 2mm. Minimum industry and legislative standards for tyres are far too low in this country. There are many tyres on the market which should NEVER be offered for sale. This would have the effect of bringing down the price of decent upper-mid segment and premium segment tyres. Thus everyone will be safer. And everyone gets to enjoy driving a car which handles properly.
paulanderson79 I
Nothing wrong with part worns. Sometimes theyre actually better. You can buy a premium part worn like Bridgestone or Michelin for less than the price of a chinese Wanly or Triangle for instance which will be totally crap in the wet and wear out much quicker than the premium make part worn..
Most chinese tyres are good. Good tread, & made out of the same compounds & rubber.
Making tyres isn't rocket science & is very well known throughout the industry.
China is very good at what they do. When it comes to making tyres no joe blogs can make one. It takes a considerable amount of machinery to make a tyre. & the chinese can make them well.
chris77777777ify Chinese tires are garbage. Super fast wear, unbalanced, can't be balanced, and terrible in anything wet. Sorry bud.
The Chinese can make good products.
What the Chinese are good at are giving the west what it wants and the majority of people just want cheap crap. The Chinese love it because there is more mark up in crap then quality, we keep demanding it and so the cycle goes on.
bridgestone has 3 factories in china, saying a whole country is shit based on a few rubbish brands is utter hogwash, don't be racist and lets all agree that premium tyres are better than bargain cheap tyres.
I use a local tyre place. Got 2 Pirelli tyres part worn for the taxi rear £25 each. Still on the car 30k miles later. Been through 4 sets on the front, various kinds and they’ve been spot on.
I bought 2 Goodyear ultra grips for £60. Not lost any pressure in a month but I'm scared mumma!
every tyre on the road is a part worn tyre from the minute it has been fitted abd run on the road. Does that mean we all have unsafe tyres on our cars. Most part worn tyre dealers sell safe tyres which have been tested and are fit for selling and use on the roads.
If it was up to the manufacturers ( sponsors of this program) we would have to fit new tires every 6 months.
I do anyway mine are always worn out within six months
Well someone took them off there car for a reason
Look at it this way
Cat b cars unsafe to be reused on road have there tyres removed and sold in garages.
Big difference between owning a new car and driving 5 miles in it thus making your tyre part worn ..
Or having a head on Collison and rolling car because it was stolen and ragged at 100mph in Brum.
Don't think part worns come of unsafe cars. And don't think they check them. Fuck do they..
denis mc keague
So? There can be any number of reasons why someone has chopped in their tyres. Perhaps the car was scrapped, or they didn't like the ride or noise of their current tyres or maybe they just decided to change them all for convenience. Part worn tyres are not necessarily dangerous and certainly not fake.
What does the cost look like taking wear into consideration?
1 new tyre vs 2-3 partly worn ones..
i did not see a single "FAKE Tire"
Exactly, no such thing as a fake tyre. This program is fake though, full of mis informed shit..
Really,you want to have this shit on your car ?!
cause they call it part worn when it's not, its a fake part worn tire.
they are simply used tires that are unfit for the road.
Ben D it cal have a fake tred in too where they glue extra rubber
Just make sure tyre got 'worn' stamps. That makes me much confident... genius.
Okay, I'm impressed with the quality of the tire repair they mentioned was done by a non-licensed repair shop. I've done worse and have taken my car to the maximum speed on the Autobahn, and nothing happened. How much of this all is fear-mongery ? There are tires that come from the factory with known weaknesses that can explode under normal driving conditions, or brand-name tires that are sold even though they're well over 10 years old. But that is all legal, right?
I'm sorry, this is mostly (but not all) bullshit. This is to boost the British economy.
The beads can leak on a new tyre(fault or dirt on rim)... so the leaky part warn test is inconclusive. I used to fit Part warn Tyres nearly 15 years ago, and if there was a Bulge in it i wouldnt put it on the car..... But i do know some one who used to...
I nevery understood why people would pay for expensive huge aloy wheels and then buy second hand liw profile old tyre.
I drive on 13' steel wheels and high profiles. Tyre is cheap.
+ you get more comfortable ride because of the higher sidewall of the tire
Some people don't realise that once you increase your wheel size you increase the weight (also having the weight further from the hub worsens things). Not only bad for fuel consumption but also handling. Ultra low profile tyres have a smaller footprint even if they are wider than the originals because they don't squash out like tyres with decent side wall. No squash means they sit higher increasing the cars centre of gravity. Lots to think of if you want to do it right, the biggest wheel and lowest profile tyre will simply slow you down, burn more fuel, give an uncomfortable jittery ride and reduce handling ability... But when your 16 none of that matters.
Big question is, where did those tyres comes from and eventually, ends up in the market?? If these tyres were imported by the adjacent countries through shipping and various mode of transportations. Then ,why didn't the custom 👮 officer seized after processing the clearance.
I only buy part-worn tyres after a puncture or a blowout. This ensures that my tyre wear will be as even as I can get it.
Always check used tyres. After all it's the tyre that. Touches the ground.
For me new tyres always over used. Yes they cost more but you are less likely to deal with these problems.
the government arent bothered about safety, which is why you only get an on the spot fine and no points for no mot, yet for no insurance you get your car confiscated and points on your licence, obviously its money thats important, not peoples lives
Hi I think this needs to be shown on TV again, this is the first time I've seen this.
Programs for the hard of thinking
2:35 The indentation in one tyre at the corner of the side and the base is reparable, however, punctured / cut on the side wall of a tyre can be dangerous at high speed. What is high speed? I can start at anything over 60 mph. Yes, the pressure at that speed can and does exert heated air and may burst. All tyres have weight and speed ratings. Fake tyres are not better or worse that ordinary normal tyres. Tyres are affected by the weather, road condition and vehicle operator's training and vigilance. There is a big corruption in tyre industry at large. Profit margins have skyrocketed and everyone is on the take. Majority of Tyres sold in Europe and America are not manufactured locally. All big names of Tyre companies are manufacturing their Tyres in low labour cost countries under their set standards and supervision.
So much bullshit people are saying on these coments.
I work in a tyre garage, and see several times a week part worn tyres that are deadly.
normaly picked up because the car comes in with bad handling so they ask for tracking to be checked.
during checks these tyres have been inflated over double the correct pressure, unbalanced and too often bad repairs.
What they mean by fake, is untested untrustworthy tyres stamped as checked/safe.
Too many people care more about money then the safty of others.
Most drivers are hideously ignorant when it comes to tyres. They have no idea about the value of tyres and full four wheel alignment. I only premium segment tyres now. Upper-mids are perfectly good to drive on but the tread wear is generally faster than a top end tyre.
Half the price of new tyres and no one will have to go for part worn .... if the safety of road users is a priority then stop the industry and government ripping every driver off
Part worn tyres are perfectly fine for tractors and farm trailers
Yes cause farmers have eyes and common sense 👌👌👌👌
if all the tyres need replacing then get new but if you get one that is punctured and cant be repaired then just get a part worn one. There are plenty of part worn tyre places that can do cheap and decent tyres that will better match the other tyres.
"My partner told me where to go!" And she still didn't listen!
I’ve bought second hand tyres all my life, never had a single problem. But you should always quickly check the tyre thread and condition before purchase for peace of mind.
Im an ex tyre fitter, done em all, car ,commercial, agricultural, plant, blah blah, I use pre owned tyres too, I do a visual on tyre before it's fitted, and afterwards, check for cuts, bulges ,etc. Also you can buy a brand new tyre, drive over glass, or bash a kerb ,and ruin your tyre in minutes. New or second hand, the road doesn't discriminate. And yes it's true, sometimes care are scrapped after new tyres were fitted, MOT failures, or fleet cars, where the driver simply wants brand new tyres fitted, seen it many times in the trade. A new tyre has around 8 millimetres of tread, I've seen em changed with 5-6 mm remaining, so they're good value second hand.
Over £100 per new tyre for a Zafira? Yeah right.
Ikr.
Probably has 15 inch wheels, so no more than £60 a tyre on black circles
She could even killed this program, with the speed and the vehicle she is driving.