Still on original tyres....!

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john-e89

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This rather nice Sepang M is on pistonheads, 20k miles £22.5K. One of the sellers fluffing the chest out selling points is that it’s still on its original tyres quote, “Demonstrating careful use”......a 2007 car still on its original tyres....on a car with 338bhp.....errrmmmmm ok...... :scratchhead:
 
So new tyres will be the first expense for the new owner!

Still it may suggest if it was ever driven properly it wasn't in recent years. :lol:
 
I’m not so sure it’s such a selling point. Whilst it could mean lots of motorway miles it could also mean lots of short trips around a village for the last 13 years, never getting up to temperature.

I’m also of the opinion that cars need their legs stretching from time to time, getting everything nice and hot and working at speed :whistle:
 
john-e89 said:
This rather nice Sepang M is on pistonheads, 20k miles £22.5K. One of the sellers fluffing the chest out selling points is that it’s still on its original tyres quote, “Demonstrating careful use”......a 2007 car still on its original tyres....on a car with 338bhp.....errrmmmmm ok...... :scratchhead:
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Linky please
 
beanie said:
I’m not so sure it’s such a selling point. Whilst it could mean lots of motorway miles it could also mean lots of short trips around a village for the last 13 years, never getting up to temperature.

I’m also of the opinion that cars need their legs stretching from time to time, getting everything nice and hot and working at speed :whistle:
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Well exactly.....22.5k is a lot of cash for an M roady, personally I don’t get why you’d emphasise it on its original tyres let alone keeping it on them....for that ask surely you’d put some good quality new boots on no...? :?
 
Tyres still on originals means the future buyer can immediately get £600 knocked off the asking price...
 
R60BBA said:
Tyres still on originals means the future buyer can immediately get £600 knocked off the asking price...
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Depends if the seller sees it that way, if they’re openly using it as a buying tool I’d assume they wouldn’t knock a penny off.
 
john-e89 said:
R60BBA said:
Tyres still on originals means the future buyer can immediately get £600 knocked off the asking price...
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Depends if the seller sees it that way, if they’re openly using it as a buying tool I’d assume they wouldn’t knock a penny off.
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You don’t get if you don’t ask buddy.
 
I looked at the car in the photos. 20k out of a single set of tyres is more than doable. I would assume it needs new tyre though.
Car looks mint though and it’s one of my favourite z4 models.
 
MOT history shows the rear tyres have been advisory for edge wear every year since 2017 - :rofl:
 
ori said:
I looked at the car in the photos. 20k out of a single set of tyres is more than doable. I would assume it needs new tyre though.
Car looks mint though and it’s one of my favourite z4 models.
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Mileage is one thing - age is quite another - and 14 year old rubber is OLD! Rubber ages and the oils leak out of it - making it hard, less grippy, much less predictable and consequently quite dangerous.

If it were a collectors car it may have some perceived additional value due to being even more 'original' by still being on the original rubber, but I'm afraid the z4 - even a rarity such as a Sepang bronze M is very much not in that bracket of car!
 
brillomaster said:
I presume its hardly moved since 2017! Nice for the mot tester to be consistent though!
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About 2000 miles based on the mot mileages intervals 2017-2020.
 
I believe Michelin's recommendation is no longer than 6 years old is safe. 13 is ridiculous.

And those original Conti's our cars came with were slippery garbage when new!
 
Exactly regardless of anything 6 years is the recommended age to replace tyres regardless of mileage and tread depth.

Dangerous. Expensive purchase when you drive away and one blows and your pride and joy ends up through a hedge backwards with you in it...
 
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