Hey all
Im just looking for some insight on my liability here.
Bought a new car so I sold the winter tires (just rubber) from my previous car. I put about 3000 miles on them last winter and they were purchased and installed October of 2022. Sold them 2 months ago.
When I posted on Kijiji he asked if there was any damage and I said no obvi cause they were essentially brand new. When he came to look at them he went through every tire with a fine tooth comb and found a nick in the side wall where it would meet the rim.
He asked me if this would be a problem in which I responded I don’t know anything about this stuff. I even told him if he was worried just to not take them. Instead he decided to just do a last minute low ball offer in which I accepted because I just wanted them gone.
Fast forward to today where I’m guessing he went to get them put on and there’s an issue with that one tire. He called me bitching saying i told him they were good etc. i responded pretty much reiterating our meet. i kinda lost my cool a bit because he was accusing me of essentially guaranteeing the tires. i sent the receipt for where i bought them a year ago. and for the company that took them off.
all i wrote in the add was when i bought them and how many miles i put on. i know the moral issue here but where am i at legally speaking. im only asking on here for what car mechanics experience/opinion in this situation would be
If you were in the business of selling used tire then he might have some recourse… but because you aren’t a tire dealer you aren’t liable for anything. Only thing that would change that is if you had known of some defect and then done something to hide it from the purchaser.