Suspected tyre theft - advice please!

[ferg1986]

Need some advice please guys.

I put new rears on my chariot 2000 miles ago at £430.

I got an MOT 6 weeks straight through and then took the car to another local garage for some radio issues which were fixed.

When I look at the rears now they are through to the canvas. I absolutely haven't driven it that hard over 2K, and it passed an MOT the day before it went to the other garage.

I suspect someone has swapped the rears off. Has anyone had this kind of issue before and if so do you have any advice?

I'd be grateful for some help as at the moment I'm contemplating popping over to the garage with my Polish cousins for a brief chat to clear things up.

[dazwalsh]

Are you sure they didnt put the new ones on the front and your knackered fronts got put on the rear?

Very hard to nick tyres unless they jacked her up and swapped exact same wheels over, do you have locking wheel nuts?

[ferg1986]

Yeah 100% sure they are different widths.

The rears were good enough for an MOT the day before and the car spent 2 days in the radio place with the locking wheelnut in the boot.

I thought I could trust a car garage

[thebraketester]

Check the dot dates on the tyres?

[Driver101]

It will be a tough one to take up with the garage as so long has passed.

You'll have a receipt for the tyres you previously purchased to confirm they aren't the same tyres?

[jamei303]

So after 2K the rears were “good enough for a MOT” which could mean they were barely legal. Six weeks later they aren’t legal, which isn’t necessarily a big surprise.

[ferg1986]

No.

They got straight through an MOT and then went to the other garage and are now on the canvas.

I’ll leave to my cousins

[Rewe]

Have they worn evenly across the whole tread or is it on the inside edges? If the rears are cambered, or if the alignment is out, the inside edges can wear scarily quickly leaving the bulk of the tread intact.

The risk/reward for a professional garage to steal tyres just does not add up!

[ferg1986]

Nah they’re completely gone across the entire surface and then canvas on some parts.

They definitely aren’t the same and I think it is probably one of the minions in the garage rather than the management.

I just wondered if anyone had experience of similar and how they resolved it

[Matt_E_Mulsion]

So if this allegation is true someone happened to have a pair of the exact make, style and size of tyres worn down to the canvas as you had bought and paid for and were fitted to your car. That would have to be one hell of a coincidence.

[Rewe]

Ah, then I would have thought that someone has been very responsibly testing that your new radio still works when doing burn outs!!

[ashleyman]

Are the tyres on the car the same make, model and size as what is on your receipt from when you bought the tyres?

[ferg1986]

Yeah they’re pretty standard off the shelf continental rears on an M3 that BM fitted.

It’s not really that much of a coincidence for some putrid foreskin of a scrote to spot a set of rears that fitted their car and swap them over.

My old man took the car in and it was there for a few days in a garage with a ramp and everything needed to swap it.

On the balance of probably someone is more likely to have swapped

[thebraketester]

What. DOT. Number. Are. The. Tyres?

[Alucidnation]

Sounds like they have been taking your motor for a 'test drive'.


Several times.

[jamei303]

Maybe they just swapped cars, did you check the chassis number?

[anonymous-user]

are they same make?

[ferg1986]

Oh yeah good idea perhaps it’s not the same car. I’ll check the chassis numbers good point mate well done

[TorqueDirty]

More likely the same car and the same tyres but for the 2 days your car was in at the garage it was getting thrashed to within an inch if its life with the rears smoking non stop.

Did you check the mileage before you dropped it off?

Have had similar with a couple of my fast cars in the past.

TD

[Pistonheader101]

That’s unfortunate. Don’t think tyres wear that quickly.