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Originally Posted by Derek Sutton
They add no value to your trade. Also have no value sitting in your garage.
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They add no value, but they can cause annoying time to sort out the trade if they were requested as part of the trade. If they're not there after the original inspection/trade in analysis, I don't think it adds value, but it can deduct it?
I did a trade in once and then swapped to winter tires on steelies. They didn't want the winter tires on steelies, so I had to drop off the OEM + all weather and let them swap it back to OEM wheels. For whatever reason, they then attempted to swap the winter tires from the steelies because the tread was better than the all weather (still 3-4 year old winters with maybe 2-3 seasons left) and they damaged 6 of 8 TPMS in the process before returning to me steelies, old all weathers with no stem because the TPMS were broken. I'd never seen that level of incompetence from a team of mechanics at a dealership before. Even the sales guy I bought from went with me to grab the tires/wheels, looked down at them and was like, "Dude, WTF did you guys do?"
The tires weren't part of the original trade in deal and were kinda old, so I have no clue why they pulled that kind of thing when some new winter tires probably would have been a great way to sell my old vehicle as a winter beast. I complained at the state they gave me back the tires (also took like 2 fricken weeks or something IIRC), so they gave me all weather mats and other swag for the new vehicle for damaging the TPMS and swapping the tires.
My dad also pulled the OEM mats and put in the generic all weather mats when my back was turned (dunno why as I was getting a vehicle in a different brand and the OEM mats were kinda trashed TBH), so I swapped those back as well when dropping off the tires and then put the all weather mats into my mom's vehicle.
Weirdest trade in situation I've ever had. I don't regret it though. As much as I loved that TL, that specific one I was unfortunate to acquire was a complete and utter lemon.