Approved used car - tyre question

Approved used car - tyre question

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pattyg

Original Poster:

1,330 posts

228 months

Saturday 28th March 2009
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Anyone know the minimum tread they set as a standard or is it a case that anything a little above legal is ok?

mikey-r

408 posts

198 months

Saturday 28th March 2009
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IIRC it's 4mm. Anything under that and they will put on new boots.

phumy

5,674 posts

238 months

Sunday 29th March 2009
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It's 3mm at all dealers so in effect you only get 1.4mm of effective use, which is piss poor really.

mitchk

109 posts

199 months

Sunday 29th March 2009
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when should you replace the tyres anyway ? on the wear limit

mitch

dan101smith

16,802 posts

212 months

Monday 30th March 2009
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My experience is that anything below 3mm is replaced, but not necessarily with new.

When we bought the Z4 as an AUC it had a tyre replaced with a part-worn.