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11-04-2007, 05:19 AM

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Originally Posted by RobJ1,Nov 4 2007, 02:09 PM

I think you would have an issue if the part that you have replaced with non standard is a factor in the accident.

If you fit budget tyres and then drive into someone as you didnt have the grip and they could prove the tyres that you have put on your car directly resulted in the accident I bet they could get out of paying.

Plenty of people run expensive cars on a budget

I can think of one person I know who ran a performance car on remoulds

He used to say "I never go above the speed limit, so why bother with expensive tyres"

I don't know if he ever did have a prang

I do remember the interest the Police and assesor took in my tyres when I rolled a car once

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11-04-2007, 05:20 AM

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Like I said Rob, if a tyre's legal, it's legal...

How could the insurers refuse to pay out? Tyres are consumables.

FWIW I know that rental companies change the tyres on their cars before they go out for hard-compound numbers so they last longer.

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11-04-2007, 05:33 AM

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Originally Posted by RobJ1,Nov 4 2007, 02:09 PM

Don't think so. Like most things they only have to come up to a fairly low minimum standard (i.e. the MOT). Pleanty of cars have terrible brakes as standard.

I guess if you fitted tyres of the wrong speed rating there might be an issue.