[968Syncro]

I'm not going to risk my life over such a small amount of money

This is such a truth.  Despite my tires showing the belts this time, I have always gone after three top priorities, and educated my kids the same:

- brakes

- tires

-steering

 

Things can fail, and will fail, guaranteed to fail, and then you or others may get seriously get hurt.  But we can minimize the probability of failure to very, very low.   Please do put these 3 in first place to spend money above all others because these are the ones that will cause a crash.

 

Honorable mention:  fuel lines, they do degrade, replace them.  (But as opposed to the main 3 above, in most cases you may get a chance to bail out before you are injured).

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[Inkedupfatboy]

I prefer to, and have, disclosed the current tires to the possible buyer. It is up to them if they are comfortable with what's currently on the car or if they want to change them if they purchase the car. I can't see how the need for an $800 set of tires would dramatically reduce the price on what is probably one of the last few sub 50,000 mileage 968's on the planet.

 

I bought a friend a Sirocco 2 years ago and tires are clearly dry rotted and have huge cracks in them. He is so cheap that he is still driving the car the 1.5 miles from his house to the church and back where he is the pastor and refuses all my rebuffs and admonitions to buy new tires. Perhaps he feels a closeness to the Lord that he will keep air in his tires for him. In comparison, I don't think I am to be criticized for having 3 year old tires on my car.

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[ds968]

FWIW : http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tiretech/t...techid=138

skeptics will argue that an article from a tire seller is deliberately biased and you can probably add a 50% cushion to whatever they assert in terms of the tire's longevity , but as previously mentioned in this thread you don't want to take any chances whatsoever with anything that can seriously injure or kill you.

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[flash]

regarding car selling and anything wrong with the car, it really doesn't matter what it is.  the reality is that with most people, anything wrong will absolutely affect the ability to sell a car.  most people don't want to deal with stuff.  it can be as simple as a power steering leak, brakes, or even tires.  most buyers want to plop down their money, and drive away a car.  they don't want to fix stuff.

 

as i said though, tires are a weird one, and some buyers might want a tire for dry grip, while others for snow.

 

that being said, old tires say "not cared for", just as much as worn brakes or a dirty engine bay.  it's all perception.  it may not raise the sale price to have everything done, but it sure cuts down on the number of walkaways.

 

that's why we have gone entirely through the black car, in preparing it for sale.  it's going to be a great car for somebody.

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