I was out with a friend of mine the other night and our other halfs when we got into a pretty heated discussion about part worn tyres. My friend believes that part worn tyres are not good, and not balanced and therefore will and can wreck wheel bearings? My side of the argument was that maybe all well and good but that is what wheel balancing is for? If the tyre once fitted makes the rim run untrue then the wheel balancing then compensates for what its out by and corrects it? I can pickup nearly new part worns for £15 fitted a piece. Or i can pay £80 upwards for a brand new one. Its only a runabout that im preparing for winter.

 

Bollocks There is no way in the world an unbalanced tyre will affect wheel bearings.

I however would never trust a part worn personally, you don't know what sort of life that tyre has had.

 

Arguing in a busy harvester on a Saturday night over it got some looks lol

I thought the same but in 12 years of driving ive never had a part worn fail me on runabout cars.