Rob H
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Registered: 28th Oct 00
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Basically a set of rims came up fairly cheap ages ago, so i bought them and put them on the car. At the time however, the tyres on the standard wheels were fairly low (3mm on the front, 2mm on the rear). Putting back to standard most likely before i sell, but do i replace all the tyres, just the rear two and put those on the front, or leave as is to see if the buyer notices/cares  .
The original tyres are dunlops, so if i were to replace them and i was keeping the car i'd go for the same/eagle F1's, but if i'm spending money i'm not gonna get back i'd not gonna want to pay £60 a corner for premium tyres.
Just don't want to give the impression that the car's not had money spent on it when needed, because the car's neer wanted for anything (cam belt at 35k - 5k early, oil change every 5k with vauxhall parts etc etc).
Thoughts and suggestions on what to do?  .
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12vMatt
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Registered: 28th Oct 06
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the tyres are legal so just leave them the way they are. no point in changing them and then losing money
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JM_16v
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most people wont buy a car because of the tyres. in terms of things that can go wrong its quite low down the list
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mwg
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Registered: 19th Feb 04
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If I was buying a car that had tyres with not much life left then I would want at least the price of some decent new ones off the price of the car.
Like you say though, buyer might not notice
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Jonny P
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just put the cheapo ones on be about £30 a corner wont it?
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JM_16v
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when buying a car tyres are the least of my worrys i look more at engine etc. history. you may get knocked down a bit but doubt you would. and even then doubt it youd get knocked down enough to earn back the cash of buying new tyres
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mwg
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When buying a car you look at everything. If it needs something doing & you aren't loaded enough not to care then you knock the price off the car regardless of what the thing that needs doing is whether its engine, tyres, bodywork (thats if it hasn't been priced lower to start with to reflect the work needing doing).
Tyres can be expensive for a decent set so someone thats just bought a car isn't likely to be wanting to fork out for them!
Thats from a buyers point of view. If I was selling then I would probably say sod it, leave on whats on and hope they dont notice 
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BYRON
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i would alway look at condition of tyres, and the brand on each corner.
I would expect there to be some leverage on price if 1, they didnt match or 2, they were low on tread
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Planty02
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Is it on alloys or steels...if so you might be able to pick up a set of steelies (with average tyres) from a scrappy for not much more than one tyre would cost
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Rob H
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It's on 16" alloys - 195-45-16 tyres. If it was steels, or even smaller wheels it wouldnt be a problem as you can get decent tyres cheap for them anyway.
Think i'll most likely leave them as they are, and leave it as a haggling point - fronts are fine for a fair few miles yet, and rears take forever to wear down, so it's not like they'd need replacing straight away.
Cheers for the thoughts anyway .
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Robin
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Registered: 7th Jan 04
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A car with 2mm tread on the tyres, I'd walk away from unless the price was negotiable.
Even 4 cheap tyres are better than 4 decent ones with shite tread.
That said, I bought my Nova with about 1mm of tread on the fronts  haggled a lot though.
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Rob H
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quote:
Originally posted by Robin
A car with 2mm tread on the tyres, I'd walk away from unless the price was negotiable.
Price on any car is negotiable IMO. End of the day 2mm is still legal, and can last an easy 5k miles, or atleast till winter when is when i'd have changed them in due course anyway.
Like i say probably haggle with the new owner - wouldnt want to change before hand incase i part exchange it, as i've never seen people bother checking tyre depth weh p/xing .
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