i found a set of bfg all-terrains local. i forget if there 35-12.50-17 or 315-70-17, but anyway, guy wants 375 for the set of four. this is the pic he sent me and said their all worn even.

is it worth it



guy say's there's about 50-60% tread left on them. what do you think??

 

looks good. i have 13k on mine (315/70/17) and they look nearly new. you can expect another 20k out of those atleast. i paid about $960 for my set new

 

well i'd say thats about right, i'd prolly see if he'd go closer to $325 for ya just for the heck of it. excellent tire though!

 

he's at 375, down from 450 right now

 

I think the price seems fairly reasonable.

 

There is definetly less than 50% tread left on those. That penny would be pretty much fully covered with a brand new tire, and it doesn't even look half covered with the used ones in the pic. But that said, that's not a bad price, i'd still try to get him to drop it a bit more though, even if he already has, but that's just my opinion.

 

Brand new ATs have 17/32 inch of tread. Measure a penny to see how deep that point is in the picture. Subtract that from the 17/32 and multiply that by the cost of new tires. Take that price and subtract the cost of mounting and balancing. That is the prorated price of those tires. I wouldn't pay any more than the lower of the two prices.

Regards

Jean Marc Chartier

 

 

Any plugs in the tires?

Any sidewall damage?

Any dry rot or sidewall cracks?

Any flat spots from not being driven much?

Why is the seller selling if the tires are "good"?

$300-$375 sounds good, if the tires are in good shape.

 

A penny is 19mm, or 3/4" wide

17/32nd is .53"

So even new you would still have 1/4" of the penny sticking out. 60% is about right.

Those look to me to be about 6 or 7 3nds left, and tires are legally worn at 2.


Offering 50% of the new price is reasonable. M&B is a given and IMO should not be factored in. He had to pay to have them removed.

Here's how to measure tread depth with pocket change.

 

Care to give an example? Just can't quite make sense of it :o .
So say a set of Super Swamper Thornbirds are 22/32nds new. Someone is selling a used set with 8/32nds of tread left.
That would work out like 22-8=14. 14/32nds=.44 roughly. A new set of Thornbirds at 900$ total... so .44x900$=396...
So the used tires (excluding mount/balance) would be worth about 396$ at that tread depth?
I probably messed the calculations up somewhere because it seems as though the more depth the tire has, my final number comes out to be less.

 

I see what you are getting at. I don't think that I explained the formula quite as well as I should have.

Obviously you need to pay for what is left. If you start with 17/32 and you have 3/32 left then you have used 14/32. In my example I was measuring from the 17 down to the 3 so I would have come up with 14. If you take 14 away from 17 you are left with 3. Multiply 3/17 by the price and that is what you pay for.

Sorry for the confusion

Jean Marc Chartier

 

Ahhhh ok. Thanks for the further explanation, just couldn't figure it out haha

 

I think $375 is a pretty good deal because those tires are really expensive brand new. I would say go for it.