Buying tyres for your vehicle can be expensive and you usually find that you need more than one replacing at a time. This can make people look for cheaper alternatives and one of these is to buy second hand part worn tyres.

With tyres, it is not always economical to buy the cheapest tyres as they may decrease your fuel economy or simply not last very long, meaning they need to be replaced sooner.  

One option you have is to buy part worn tyres. Part worn tyres are often tyres that have been shipped in from other parts of Europe or have been removed from cars due to be scrapped in the UK. Rules in other parts of the EU state that tyres have to be changed at 3mm as opposed to 1.6 in the UK. In the UK many garages will recommend that you change your tyres when you have about 2-3 mm left on them as this is when braking distance etc is show to be massively affected. If you buy part worns with only 3-4 mm on them already then you won’t have to drive many miles before they should ideally be changed. You need to carefully weigh up the cost of part worns and if possible go for new or find some part worns with a decent tread depth on them.