Retailer ordered to pay £7000 for selling 16-year-old tyre

The proprietor of a Bristol tyre business has been ordered to pay £7000 after he sold a 16-year-old product to a consumer. According to Bristol City Council, Philip Church sold and fitted the tyre to a customer's vehicle while trading as C and C Tyres. And what’s more not only was the tyre so far past it sell by date that had it have been human it was nearly old enough to drive itself, he also failed to point out that it was second hand.

As a result the council reports that Church was convicted by magistrates in Bristol of supplying a dangerous tyre, which is an offence under the General Product Safety Regulations 2005. The court heard that the day after it was fitted the tyre collapsed while being driven on the motorway. The good news is that the customer managed to avoid a collision. However Church was also convicted under the Consumer Protection Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 of misleading the buyer and for not marking it as part worn.

He was fined a total of £3,000 for selling a dangerous tyre, £500 for misleading the buyer and £500 for not labelling the tyre as second hand. He was also ordered to pay £2,358 costs and £129 compensation to the customer.