used car with new (but crap) tyres - options

skyhighflyer

Hi all

So have just bought a new (to me) car, it's a 2006 Alfa 147, spent a long while looking for a good example and settled on this one.

Problem is, the previous owner had fitted 4 brand new 'Wanli' tyres to it just before I bought it. I don't really want to open a debate on this, but reviews of these tyres range from 'ok in the dry' to 'outright dangerous in the wet'.

So I'm looking for opinions as to what people would do. Seems a bit wasteful to just dump them, especially when four new premium tyres would cost €400+ I was looking at part worn premium tyres, but does it make sense to swap new (admittedly cheapo) tyres for partworns?

All thoughts welcome

Supergurrier

My car was bought on 19 inch accelera's

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee (Skid) boom :pac:

colm_mcm

Ditch - or end up in a ditch.

cfc1888

skyhighflyer wrote: »

Hi all

So have just bought a new (to me) car, it's a 2006 Alfa 147, spent a long while looking for a good example and settled on this one.

Problem is, the previous owner had fitted 4 brand new 'Wanli' tyres to it just before I bought it. I don't really want to open a debate on this, but reviews of these tyres range from 'ok in the dry' to 'outright dangerous in the wet'.

So I'm looking for opinions as to what people would do. Seems a bit wasteful to just dump them, especially when four new premium tyres would cost €400+ I was looking at part worn premium tyres, but does it make sense to swap new (admittedly cheapo) tyres for partworns?

All thoughts welcome

You bought an Alfa? The tyres would be the least of my worries.:D

Esel

To paraphrase a US motorcycle joke: Most Chinese tyres last a lifetime.

Neilw

Get some better tyres fitted then stick the ditch finders on adverts.ie, someone will buy them if they are priced right and a common size.

dredg

skyhighflyer wrote: »

Hi all

So have just bought a new (to me) car, it's a 2006 Alfa 147, spent a long while looking for a good example and settled on this one.

Problem is, the previous owner had fitted 4 brand new 'Wanli' tyres to it just before I bought it. I don't really want to open a debate on this, but reviews of these tyres range from 'ok in the dry' to 'outright dangerous in the wet'.

So I'm looking for opinions as to what people would do. Seems a bit wasteful to just dump them, especially when four new premium tyres would cost €400+ I was looking at part worn premium tyres, but does it make sense to swap new (admittedly cheapo) tyres for partworns?

All thoughts welcome

Brand new pieces of crap are still pieces of crap. Bin them, get something (anything) better.

bazz26

You don't have to replace them with expensive premium tyres, there are plenty of very good mid range tyres out there. The likes of Hankook, Kumho, Uniroyal all do good tyres at decent prices.

Nissan doctor

The main thing that Alfa's have going for them is handling....the tyres you have currently will completely cancel that fact.

IMO if you plan on keeping the car then 4 good quality tyres are the only option and as said, stick the Wanli's up for sale somewhere. There are plenty of people out there who's only interest in tyres is how much they cost so you will sell them no bothers.

skyhighflyer

Thanks for the replies.

I think what I'll do is spring for four new mid-range but non-crap tyres, hopefully shift the Wanlis for €25 a corner or something which will take the edge off the pain

Ardennes1944

get some kumhos or around that range

delthedriver

skyhighflyer wrote: »

Thanks for the replies.

I think what I'll do is spring for four new mid-range but non-crap tyres, hopefully shift the Wanlis for €25 a corner or something which will take the edge off the pain

Change them before the winter sets in. Look at them as an early Christmas present to yourself:)

colm_mcm

delthedriver wrote: »

Change them before the winter sets in. Look at them as an early Christmas present to yourself:)

Or a present to everyone else!

Bruthal

colm_mcm wrote: »

Or a present to everyone else!

Not really, if he is going to sell them

colm_mcm

Maybe someone will use them on a swing or something

Matt Simis

colm_mcm wrote: »

Maybe someone will use them on a swing or something

Prolly too hard and plastic for that even!

I bought a used set of wheels with brand new Chinese tyres. I brought them to a part worn place to get part worn anything else. I asked if they would take the Chinese as trade ins (which they usually do, take good tyres as trade in after inspecting the tyre). They laughed and said not a chance. They have a value of precisely zero to a business which sells cheap tyres (part worns).

Complete scrap parts. OP, just drop by a Part Worn place and get some good branded Part Worns and you are set.

Del2005

skyhighflyer wrote: »

Hi all

So have just bought a new (to me) car, it's a 2006 Alfa 147, spent a long while looking for a good example and settled on this one.

Problem is, the previous owner had fitted 4 brand new 'Wanli' tyres to it just before I bought it. I don't really want to open a debate on this, but reviews of these tyres range from 'ok in the dry' to 'outright dangerous in the wet'.

Got to love some peoples logic. The car properly had half decent tyres on it but the owner decided it would sell better with new tyres. So they went out and bought the cheapest POS they could find:eek: Why bother, couldn't they just let the new buyer off the money spent on the the ditch finders.

skyhighflyer wrote: »

So I'm looking for opinions as to what people would do. Seems a bit wasteful to just dump them, especially when four new premium tyres would cost €400+ I was looking at part worn premium tyres, but does it make sense to swap new (admittedly cheapo) tyres for partworns?

All thoughts welcome

I dumped a set of them* off an old car I had, car was OKish when dry but I had zero faith in them for the Oh Sh!t times. Get any type of known brand or even get a set of part worn winters and save for decent tyres for next summer, if we ever get a summer again.


* Generic cheap Chinese tyres.