Dealer fitted budget tyres after purchase of car!
Discussion
keirik said:
DoubleD said:
keirik said:
I think this thread should be in the "first world problems" forum
Why?
t tyres so dealer changed them now OP isnt happy because he doesnt like the make.It's hardly important is it.
Are they legal, are they the same on the same axle, if so he should be grateful they didn't leave shot tyres on it that he didn't spot were s
t when he decided the car was acceptable.IF he really pushes it I'm sure they can find him some worn out ones of the brand he desires. But I'm not clear how that will be an improvement.
It might have been more productive if instead of wasting time writing that, you instead could have been trying to come up with a solution to the dirty water problems in Somalia.
keirik said:
DoubleD said:
keirik said:
I think this thread should be in the "first world problems" forum
Why?t tyres so dealer changed them now OP isnt happy because he doesnt like the make.It's hardly important is it.
Are they legal, are they the same on the same axle, if so he should be grateful they didn't leave shot tyres on it that he didn't spot were s
t when he decided the car was acceptable.IF he really pushes it I'm sure they can find him some worn out ones of the brand he desires. But I'm not clear how that will be an improvement.
Funk said:
SteBrown91 said:
At the end of the day they thought they were doing you a favour as most people don’t care about the brand.
Just swap them back to the front, wear them out and replace.
You don't put new tyres on the front, newest tyres go on the rear.Just swap them back to the front, wear them out and replace.
Leaving p zeros or whatever on the back is not going to kill the OP
But thanks for the tyre advice
The car has only done 13k so there should be some tread left - my Polo GTI was on the originals after 22k. I'd much rather have driven it on the originals with matching tyres and change in a few months than have a year of poor rear traction.
It's going back in three years and I don't want st handling for 1/3 of my ownership period.
It's going back in three years and I don't want s
t handling for 1/3 of my ownership period.
Pica-Pica said:
DoubleD said:
To say its not important which tyres you have on a car is rather odd given that this is supposed to be a site for petrol heads.
To say that the OP did not notice and specify to keep original tyres, is rather odd given this is supposed to be a site for PISTON heads.Flumpo said:
keirik said:
DoubleD said:
keirik said:
I think this thread should be in the "first world problems" forum
Why?t tyres so dealer changed them now OP isnt happy because he doesnt like the make.It's hardly important is it.
Are they legal, are they the same on the same axle, if so he should be grateful they didn't leave shot tyres on it that he didn't spot were s
t when he decided the car was acceptable.IF he really pushes it I'm sure they can find him some worn out ones of the brand he desires. But I'm not clear how that will be an improvement.
It might have been more productive if instead of wasting time writing that, you instead could have been trying to come up with a solution to the dirty water problems in Somalia.
Maybe it involves the use of partly worn tyres
Pica-Pica said:
To say that the OP did not notice and specify to keep original tyres, is rather odd given this is supposed to be a site for PISTON heads.
What else about a used car should you specifically notice and tell the dealership not to mess with?I think the only thing that'd come to mind to me is if I were looking at a car that clearly needed servicing or detailing, then I might explicitly say to the seller that I didn't want them messing with it, if I had my own ideas of how I wanted it done.
The tyres, if they were perfectly legal, I'd be annoyed about too. Maybe the OP was planning to run them for a few months until the financial dent of buying a new car is out the way, which would coincide with the weather getting better, and buy some decent replacements then. Though it doesn't particularly matter why, point is they changed something after the deal was done, and didn't consult him about it.
They should have left well alone.
keirik said:
Flumpo said:
keirik said:
DoubleD said:
keirik said:
I think this thread should be in the "first world problems" forum
Why?t tyres so dealer changed them now OP isnt happy because he doesnt like the make.It's hardly important is it.
Are they legal, are they the same on the same axle, if so he should be grateful they didn't leave shot tyres on it that he didn't spot were s
t when he decided the car was acceptable.IF he really pushes it I'm sure they can find him some worn out ones of the brand he desires. But I'm not clear how that will be an improvement.
It might have been more productive if instead of wasting time writing that, you instead could have been trying to come up with a solution to the dirty water problems in Somalia.
Maybe it involves the use of partly worn tyres
Funk said:
SteBrown91 said:
At the end of the day they thought they were doing you a favour as most people don’t care about the brand.
Just swap them back to the front, wear them out and replace.
You don't put new tyres on the front, newest tyres go on the rear.Just swap them back to the front, wear them out and replace.
underphil said:
But why is that the convention? - because new tyres will grip better than part worn ones, but in this case that isn't true so better to have them on the front
That's a pretty reasonable point, though perhaps worth proceeding with caution - they may still have better grip in very wet conditions, for example, if their much greater tread depth than the part worn "good" tyres becomes more important than a rubber compound made out of melted down political dissidents or whatever.Gassing Station | Car Buying | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff