Dangerous tyres supplier fined-The tyres had five areas of damage which had not been properly repaired

Dangerous tyres

‘Dangerous’ tyres supplier fined

Cumnock Chronicle

Both of the £20 tyres were examined by an independent expert who reported that one of the tyres had five areas of damage which had not been properly repaired and a nail still embedded in the tread.

Part worn tyres are Dangerous tyres

This article, thus coming out in the Cumnock Chronicle . Is of no surprise! Especially, to all of us genuine tyre dealers selling new tyre products for a living. As a result, we are very concerned about the way that these people are setting up. So, all these back street part worn tyre shops that have sprung up recently, are making me cringe!.

Especially, in the past couple of years. Making some areas look like the back streets of Cairo, (this is what i saw on a recent visit to Egypt). Incredibly, there was a tyre shop on every corner. Staff in so called tyre shops, were inflating tyres with old foot pumps.

Since I did this article their has been a rise in the number of prosecutions for Dangerous tyres. That is to say, against part worn tyre dealers who sell Dangerous tyres. In this case, that do not come under the law. So some dealers do act within the law and I have nothing against this. But it is the unscrupulous dealers that should be targeted.

I am amazed that people in a civilised country like ours! Would think that they could buy a decent good tyre for only £20 ? Local authorities throughout the UK and the USA are starting to clamp down on the illegal sale of these dangerous tyres. So, drivers are not aware that they may be driving their cars. Alarmingly, with the time bomb of part worn tyres fitted to their vehicles.

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