Often time one would be thinking what will be done with the second hand tires in shops like kwikfit and others., be it not that they are thrown away since that’ll fill up our land fills.
Story has it that these tires are recollected an being sold as a second hand tires even in Europe, where strict mot checks (vehicle health) require owners to change tires at set intervals or when grip pattern is less than acceptable.
However, these tires are still often times very little used, some of them have just been used 15% of their viable lifetime.
That means that some of these tires find their way jacked up on second hand cars before being sold with texts like “as new tires”.
Owners of cars should know that often times the garage will tell you to change tires, this is purely and merely so that they can sell your second hand tire on and still hit their bonuses with tire manufacturers.
One might wonder about the less fortunate second hand tires, those are exported to other countries to disassemble and reextract the rubber , steel thread out of the tire to make new tires once again.