morcus
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| posted on 1/12/11 at 02:08 AM |
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Can you buy bald tyres?
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?
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blakep82
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| posted on 1/12/11 at 02:14 AM |
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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?
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morcus
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| posted on 1/12/11 at 02:23 AM |
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It's a 5 series I think. I'll pass it on and see what he says.
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Furyous
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| posted on 1/12/11 at 06:48 AM |
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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.
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 1/12/11 at 08:09 AM |
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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
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bi22le
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| posted on 1/12/11 at 08:38 AM |
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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.
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jossey
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| posted on 1/12/11 at 08:48 AM |
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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
Thanks
David Johnson
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wicket
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| posted on 1/12/11 at 10:48 AM |
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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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02GF74
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| posted on 1/12/11 at 11:04 AM |
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quote:
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!!
with business sense like that, you should be on Dragon's den 
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morcus
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| posted on 2/12/11 at 04:10 AM |
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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.
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