Some one I work with asked me this as he's been offered a car he wants to use as a parts car for his but the tyres on it have split sidewalls so he needs some tyres to roll it around on and asked if he could buy no legal tyres from somewhere for such purpose. If he goes to the local tyre places and asked if they have old tyres for this will he have much luck?

scrap yard's probably his best bet? tyre place have to dispose of the tyres in an environmentally safe way, and i don't think that counts as environmentally safe as they can't guarantee what he'll do with them
what car is it? someone on here might have something?

It's a 5 series I think. I'll pass it on and see what he says.

I've had tyres from a garage before. We needed some for work as a buffer/bouncer thing on a wall. People pay £1 to the garage to dispose of them, then the garage has to pay to have them dumped. They'd probably be quite happy not to pay. You just need to find four of the right size without puncture damage.

Yep done that before when I saw a thing on how to make skate shoes (you glue a chunk of "truck" tyre to your sole, needless to say it didn't work as I couldn't get through the steel belting)

They were happy to let me take one

You probably can't buy one. they will give them away! Especially if you only want tyres and no rims.

scrapped or a local tyre place would be my best bet.

tyre shops pay to have the tyres removed so just ask for some.

if its a 2004 onwards 5 series the tyres are 245/40/18

I got 4 Ford fit wheels with tyres from the local scrappy for £10. When I finished with them got rid of them for £10!!

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Originally posted by wicket
I got 4 Ford fit wheels with tyres from the local scrappy for £10. When I finished with them got rid of them for £100!!

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Thanks for the replies, but today he says the dead car has nicer wheels so he'll probably buy new tires for those wheels, put them on the live car and put the current ones on the dead car.