Main dealer, trade in and tyres

john1963

Traded in my car with a main dealer recently and out of curiousity had a look at it a few weeks later It was a 12 d car and they were selling it for 17450. It nended 2 new tyres when I traded it in. I saw my car all polished up and it looked great. Then I sawould 2 cheap chinese tyres on it and I was totally shocked. Why do main dealers do things like that

Del2005

Because that's what the majority of motorists are putting on their cars, why would a dealer fit anything else.

tossy

Because of the 'tyre is a tyre' mentality. 9 out of every 10 people who test drive that car or are interested in buying it will see brand new tyres and be delighted with the 'deal'.

Maybe one might question them and ask for proper tyres to be fitted.

bazz26

tossy wrote: »

Because of the 'tyre is a tyre' mentality. 9 out of every 10 people who test drive that car or are interested in buying it will see brand new tyres and be delighted with the 'deal'.

Maybe one might question them and ask for proper tyres to be fitted.

Bingo.

Cheapest way for a dealer to remove a potential bargaining chip from the majority of buyers. One in ten buyers might check the tyre brand and insist on a good known brand as part of the deal.

Atlantic Dawn

Most people spend more time deciding on what shoes to buy than they do on what tyres to buy.

I'd prefer to see 4 bald tyres on a used car at a dealers than see if with 4 brand new Chinese ditchfinders, it would give me the opportunity to negotiate a discount rather than be throwing 4 brand new tyres in the nearest skip.

JoeA3

A dealer is never going to fit premium tyres to a used car. Dealers use "dent man" and chips away type services too only when absolutely necessary - its all about getting it on the forecourt ready for sale for the lowest possible cost.

To most of the driving population (boards.ie motors forum is a very small minority), tyres are just round black things under the car.

john1963

JoeA3 wrote: »

A dealer is never going to fit premium tyres to a used car. Dealers use "dent man" and chips away type services too only when absolutely necessary - its all about getting it on the forecourt ready for sale for the lowest possible cost.

To most of the driving population (boards.ie motors forum is a very small minority), tyres are just round black things under the car.

Well I understand all the points made but I am amazed that a main dealer major brand would try to save 100 euro by using cheap tyres. I would rather pay the extra surely new decent brand tyres would be a selling point

bucketybuck

john1963 wrote: »

Well I understand all the points made but I am amazed that a main dealer major brand would try to save 100 euro by using cheap tyres. I would rather pay the extra surely new decent brand tyres would be a selling point

I suspect you overestimate the margin on a used car from a dealer. The salesman's commission may in fact only be a couple of hundred euro, so its hardly a surprise that they will want to cut costs wherever possible.

9935452

JoeA3 wrote: »

A dealer is never going to fit premium tyres to a used car. Dealers use "dent man" and chips away type services too only when absolutely necessary - its all about getting it on the forecourt ready for sale for the lowest possible cost.

To most of the driving population (boards.ie motors forum is a very small minority), tyres are just round black things under the car.

Even on boards.ie there are a lot of people who consider a tyre a tyre regardless of brand

Del2005

john1963 wrote: »

Well I understand all the points made but I am amazed that a main dealer major brand would try to save 100 euro by using cheap tyres. I would rather pay the extra surely new decent brand tyres would be a selling point

The dealer is fitting tyres that the public are buying. Why would they loose profit by fitting premium tyres when the majority of buyers won't fit them.

RobAMerc

I think its fluckin hilarious that the SIMI recently ran adds telling folks to avoid 2nd hand tyres. And yet their members are quite happy to put such sh*te tyres on their stock !

It sickens me that our government has basically delegated their responsibly around making any policies to a trade group who systematically make policies to suit themselves. And this tyre nonses shows what a fine upstanding bunch they are !

166man

JoeA3 wrote: »

A dealer is never going to fit premium tyres to a used car. Dealers use "dent man" and chips away type services too only when absolutely necessary - its all about getting it on the forecourt ready for sale for the lowest possible cost.

To most of the driving population (boards.ie motors forum is a very small minority), tyres are just round black things under the car.

Depends on the dealer and the brand of car. Some have minimum standards for what can be fitted before resale.

In BMW at the time it was Kumho was the lowest brand that would be fitted. Most of the newer stuff i.e up to 4 years old would be fitted with OEM run flats.

James Bond Junior

166man wrote: »

Depends on the dealer and the brand of car. Some have minimum standards for what can be fitted before resale.

In BMW at the time it was Kumho was the lowest brand that would be fitted. Most of the newer stuff i.e up to 4 years old would be fitted with OEM run flats.

I was attempting to trade my then 4 year old e90 into a bmw main dealer and the salesman was saying the 4 brand fairly new bridgestones would need to be ditched as they weren't run flats. You can't win sometimes clearly.

mickdw

James Bond Junior wrote: »

I was attempting to trade my then 4 year old e90 into a bmw main dealer and the salesman was saying the 4 brand fairly new bridgestones would need to be ditched as they weren't run flats. You can't win sometimes clearly.

Roll it in the gate on 4 bald ones from tyre shop so.

9935452

James Bond Junior wrote: »

I was attempting to trade my then 4 year old e90 into a bmw main dealer and the salesman was saying the 4 brand fairly new bridgestones would need to be ditched as they weren't run flats. You can't win sometimes clearly.

If he was selling you the car he would be telling you about all the advantages of not having run flats, only a third of the price to buy them , a better ride etc and they are nearly new bridgestones.

He was only trying to knock the trade in price by a grand to increase his commission. Im half surprised he didnt tell you that because of the volkswagon thing confidence is down with german cars so they are worth less.

twin_beacon

john1963 wrote: »

Well I understand all the points made but I am amazed that a main dealer major brand would try to save 100 euro by using cheap tyres. I would rather pay the extra surely new decent brand tyres would be a selling point

The more money they make on the car, the more commission the salesman may get.