Risk in purchasing newish chipped tyres

Neetas,

Where those tyres have been who knows. But will you go a similar path?? Unlikely yes.
Many 4WD folks do their trip on new tyres and then sell them after. Not a bad ploy if you get good money for then worn tyres. Most people dont work tyres like we do so, wont a cheap set but them. Want to dom the full monty yourself but new tyres.

From 100% to 40% no punctures, after that all the problems in the world.

If you are suburban bound, go for it, if not invest more dollars in a new set.
Cheers
Ian@MtDare

you have answered your own question by asking the forum, you obviously don't think its such a great idea.
if you want to take 'just a risk" on those things that keep you on the road the right way up ...............................

Why would you buy a tyre that has those sorts of problems?
Might be OK if you stick to the bitumen.

Surely it depends on how badly they are chipped?

Although, I have to say, that you will never get a vote for Cooper Tires from me!

I'm no tyre expert, however I accept tyres are not invincible and will chip when driven offroad. There is so many posts about tyres chipping - so my question is seeking confirmation of my hypothesis that chipped tyres can be normal, and hence OK.

But perhaps there is two questions here: firstly about buying tyres that are chipped - does this necessarily imply a short lifespan; and secondly whether an chipped, antichip compund tyre showing signs of chipping is a reflection of driving style, compound issues, or both, and whether they would make a sound investment at the right price (assuming a good answer to the first question)?
Sh%t, real chicken and egg stuff!

Maybe just buying new MTRs is a better solution :)

Buy them, do a few k's, then complain to Coopers and get a new set!

Mike,
I had a set of Cooper S/T on my 100 series and had some fairly extensice chipping on them. Both my mechanic and the tyre mob I was going to for wheel alignments, etc. advised me that it would just be a matter of time before these tyres would fail. This was essentially becasue of the steel belt being exposed to the elements and the fact that over time water would get in, rust the steel, eventually causing failure.

In the end I took them back to Cooper's head office in Brisbane 9prrior to taking them back to the particular dealership I purchsed them through) and after quite a bit of complaining and stressing the danger element I had them replaced with a new set of STT. To date (10,000 kilometers later) I have had no problems, chipping or other. I paid the dollar difference, which was relative to the 40,000km I had already achieved with the S/Ts wear and the 65% tread still left on them. A shame with the chipping, as it would have appeared I would have achieved over 100,000 km out of them.

I would personally not take the chance with buying the set you are considering, given the existing chipping.

Rusty

Rusty