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Originally Posted by MetroMPG

I once asked a local yard about buying a set of almost new tires off a junked car, and they wouldn't sell them for liability reasons. Which seemed weird to me, considering all the other used junk they sell.

I wouldn't normally buy used tires either, but these are the Holy Grail of hard-to-find used tires . Also, it's not certain that I will actually have to pay for them.

I've actually inquired about this. In the US, that I can find, there is no *actual* liability issue with it. However, there's always some jerkoff lawyer that will eventually find a way to dick with the laws enough to hold someone else accountable for an operator's stupidity. It never fails.

So, in reality, it's not a liability problem. It's an "I don't want to eventually be held liable because of some stupid jerkoff's deep wallet and lack of intelligence." problem.