Use of second hand tyres causes loss of life, revenue

Use of second hand tyres in the vehicles is on the increase but user is unaware that these tyres, because of their low quality, may cause accidents and loss of life. The second-hand tyres are not compatible for using in the vehicles due to their low quality and their less capability to maintain quality drive to the motorists, resulting in traffic accidents and loss of precious lives. 

Tyre dealers said there is an adage that says 'purchase a used tyre whose history you don't know'. Used tyres have been made available largely in the city by the roadside tyre vulcanizers and people in middle and low income group prefer to buy these due to cost difference. Beside cars a very lager number of taxis, Chnik rickshaws, mini buses plying on the roads using second hand tyres instead of new ones. 

New tyres of Honda Civic cost Rs 4,000 and more and a similar second hand tyres look like physically goods cost Rs 1,000. The dealers said the government must curb use of second hand tyres before the repercussions become more severe in the days to come. These tyres Use of these tyres is damaging the local industry and posing risk to lives of innocent people. 

Traders maintain that in the long run consumers do not benefit from the cheap second hand tyres. There is no benefit for the consumer in using second hand tyres because they have no warranty, as against the locally produced and legally imported tyres, which are guaranteed. 

These second hand tyres are considered as an environmental hazard in the developed economies hence, being very conscious of safety standards and rigorous police checks, the motorists discard their tyres replacing them with new ones Smuggled and imported in scrap tyres huge dent on the exchequer by way of taxes and duties that cause evasions of hundreds of millions of rupees every year because Pakistan has become a dumping ground, for many years, for countries like China and now India too sell out scrap at bulk, the tyre dealers said.