Why do tyre kickers kick tyres?
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mm turtle, he means tyres. He's not American. Tires (to us) means "he tires of the comments" etc
They kick them as a quick, but extemely inaccurate, method of seeing if the tyre's down. I'll admit. I use it just to see if they could do with a replenishmant once in a while, although I do regularly check with my guage too.
They seem to think they have a natural "built-in" pressure gauge in their toes !
You mean TIRES
I don't know why they do it but it's very annoying, what are they acheiving by this - that there is air in the tyres!!
I didn't think it was that literal. I thought they were just time wasters that would have a long nose round cars for sale but never really intend to buy.
Edit: No mmturtle7. we mean TYRES. That's how it is spelled in English. You may bastardise the language for your own national use, but don't tell your granny how to suck eggs.
No MMTurtle, he means Tyres and please remember that we were speaking and writing English before you were a nation and that there is no actual recognised language as US English unless you work for Microsoft.
I've always assumed it was to test they were reasonably well inflated, and that the car wasn't going to crumble at the force of a couple of sharp knocks.
I always thought that Tyre Kickers meant people who nose at cars with no intetnion of buying, like carpet treaders are people who nose around your house when its for sale with no intention of buying it.
Because their not wall kickers.
It's because they have'nt got any real knowledge of the workings of a car so they try to look as if they do by kicking tyres.
don't laugh too hard but before there were modern radial Tire the sidewall of a Tire was nearly as thick if not thicker than the tread depth giving some low Tires the appearance of fully inflated or nearly fully inflated.
Also if you kick the Tire and it moves the rim more than a minuscule amount it could be a sign of tie rod wear.
Americans really tire me out. I wish they would be intelligent enough to stick to their own, dumbed-down Yahoo Answers, and leave us suave Brits to answer appropriately.
Tyre-kickers are time-wasters, just like everyone has said. Don't even offer a test drive. Serious buyers will know what to ask and treat you with respect.
Dude sorry we dont speak your language. Next time you have a question we "stupid americans" know the answer to you can remember that.
Kicking tires is a thing that started many years ago. People would kick tires to see how strong the chassis was and if the tire fell off. the car wasn't any good.
Nowadays tire kicking serves no purpose. Unless you are quickly checking tire pressure. People that kick tires don't know why they do it. Ask one, they have no clue, or they'll say the saw it on a TV show.
Tyre(UK)/Tire(USA) kicking is slang for people whom go around looking at and dreaming about cars that they cannot buy as they have no money and have no real intention of buying, they will also ask to go for a test drive just for the thrill, these days serious sellers whom want serious buyers will only talk to people whom turn up to view and test a car with ready cash their pocket.
You will often now see advertising for cars, "No tyre/tire kickers, no timewasters, no dreamers, no flights of fancy"
because they want to look like they know something about cars, when really they just let us know how much they dont know.
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