Selling 2009 Prius-need to buy tires

Costco I know doesn’t warranty, rotate, or fix tires to second owners, suspect others don’t either. You get nothing as a second owner of their tires. Its a tough one. Maybe move the worst front one to the back so it wears less. People know tires wear out. Newer tires, I think many buyers see it as essentially free. But you can offer half off the cost of cheap new tires cost at the final negotiation, and probably they absorb it, but who knows, people are all different. With brand new tires you may have someone coming back complaining and asking you to help warranty them or something too.
An advantage of your car is the tires are one of the least costly sizes, a selling point.

 

If you put new tires on a car you just don’t tell the buyer.

it’s up to them if they keep or replace, if you don’t tell they are new they won’t be coming back for warranty

 

Get used tires with some good tread or enough to get you by. Nothing wrong with used tires, just inspect them for dry rot, plugs etc.
I'm in southern California and used tires are plentiful at the smaller tire shops. Some people get new rims/tires and leave their stock parts at the shop or change tires even when the old set has good tread left.


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Personally I would rather buy a used car with tires that are not brand spanking new. That way I can see if there is a problem with how the tires wear. Brand new tires are a red flag for me, not quite up there with a steam cleaned engine, but close.

This is the result of a bad experience with a bought used car that came with new tires and turned out to have uneven wear on one side. It drove me crazy, the car would start pulling to one side, and it moved with the tire. Turned out that the right rear would cause a bad wear pattern to set in, and when rotated to the front, it would pull. Meanwhile the previously good tire was being screwed up in that position. A suspension shop finally resolved it by installing a crash bolt in the rear suspension. I say finally because suspension checks at two different tire stores had not previously noted a problem. There was no history of collision damage back there, and nothing else in the vicinity of that wheel was damaged or appeared to have been replaced. The previous owner may have hit a curb with that wheel.