Dealers stealing wheels and tires

[MCompact]

My Jeep dealer also sells AEV Jeeps and trucks, so they end up with a fair number of take-off wheels- and they give them away for free on the condition you pick them up and agree not to resell them. As a result I obtained a set of new Rubicon wheels which are now awaiting a set of BFG, Falken or Pirelli all terrain tires, which should eradicate the Sahara's "mall crawler" vibe.

 

[bdcardinal]

Do they ever offer to sell them to the public or employees?

I mean if we are tossing them, we usually get an employee who wants them. It would have to fit whatever they had. I am usually too busy to deal with used parts. We have had sales people want to open up an ebay store but then have parts run and manage it, my resources are best spent elsewhere.

 

[fsdork]

I would imagine there is less of a market for take-offs in areas where people don't perform seasonal change-overs to winter tires. I paid my local tire shop $125 per wheel for a set of take-off 17" Ford alloys to mount my Blizzaks on. They are far preferable IMO to steel wheels, as the inexpensive black-painted steelies start to rust after a few years of winter use.

 

[wtd]

My friend just bought 2025 Toyota Tacoma. He’s all about being seen. He bought one of the trucks on the lot that the dealer installed a lift kit, and aftermarket wheels and tires. I asked him where is he storing the takeoff wheels and tires. He said the dealer didn’t give him those. I told him the wheels and tires that came on the truck from the factory is yours. Those are part of the truck and is included in the specs. Just another reason to hate dealers. Those dealer spec upgraded vehicles are so overpriced with markups. My local Subaru dealers were throwing on wheels and tires, lift kits, roof top baskets, and charging $6K markup.

If they are charging full price for the upgrades without a discount for the factory stuff then he should get his factory parts back but he will have to ask them for them if they still even have them.

Someone else on here had a similar post but it was about a Ford truck. If I remember correctly, he asked for his stock tires and wheels back and they had already gotten rid of them. They ended up buying a new set for his truck and were not happy about it.

 

[GON]

I'd be more concerned about how come my friend took off tested and verified brand new OEM tires and rims, and purchased a new vehicle with Chinese uncertified rims and tires, likely of extremely low quality? When your friend has a vibration above 40 mph, the OEM is not going to cover that whatsoever.

 

[bdcardinal]

I'd be more concerned about how come my friend took off tested and verified brand new OEM tires and rims, and purchased a new vehicle with Chinese uncertified rims and tires, likely of extremely low quality? When your friend has a vibration above 40 mph, the OEM is not going to cover that whatsoever.

As a parts person, pre-loading vehicles infuriates me to no end. The cataloging doesn't reflect the new parts, and the second or third owners don't realize the vehicles were modified and think that is how they came stock.

 

[ecotourist]

A surgeon I knew swore that a dealer tried to actually steal his spare tire and wheel. This was decades ago but the story is real.

He took his car to the dealer for minor servicing. As he was leaving he checked for his spare tire. It was missing. He confronted the staff. They said they didn't know anything about it. He noticed a pile covered by tarp in the corner and marched over and pulled the cover off. "That's my spare tire" he said. "How do you know that" they replied. "Has my name on the back" he said, picking it up and showing them.

So why was he so suspicious of the dealership? He had previously taken the car in for warranty work on the radio. When he went to pick up the car, the space on the dash for the radio was empty, and the staff denied he had ever had one!

 

[97prizm]

Did he specify what he wanted done with the OEM wheels? I'm going to wait for this answer........... Then we can discuss the topic you started. I will be checking in until you do.

Unless the oem wheels and tires were listed on the monroeny then they aren't part of the sale.

 

[CKN]

Unless the oem wheels and tires were listed on the monroeny then they aren't part of the sale.

They are always listed on the sticker. The OP has failed to tell us what the verbal communication was....because quite frankly he doesn't know.

 

[CKN]

My friend just bought 2025 Toyota Tacoma. He’s all about being seen. He bought one of the trucks on the lot that the dealer installed a lift kit, and aftermarket wheels and tires. I asked him where is he storing the takeoff wheels and tires. He said the dealer didn’t give him those. I told him the wheels and tires that came on the truck from the factory is yours. Those are part of the truck and is included in the specs. Just another reason to hate dealers. Those dealer spec upgraded vehicles are so overpriced with markups. My local Subaru dealers were throwing on wheels and tires, lift kits, roof top baskets, and charging $6K markup.

I'm still waiting for an answer to my post. above in this thread, It starts with..."Did he specify".......I'm waiting.

 

[lbhsbz]

I will tell you what happens with the OE parts in this case. They get dumped on the parts department to store "for when we might need them in the future" and after a certain amount of time they will be dismounted and tires tossed in junk tires and the wheels in the scrap bin.

....or all the guys in the shop get free tires if the size they need happen to be in the "take-off" pile. I've grabbed a few sets over the years back in my dealer days.....just buy the service manager lunch lol.

 

[Cheetah-kins]

Plenty of new take offs for sale on marketplace and other sites. Nobody is scrapping them.

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Yep. Not sure where some people get the idea that brand new factory tires and wheels have zero value and are just tossed in the dumpster if someone chooses to change them to something aftermarket. There's a HUGE market for take-off OEM wheels. I've occasionally bought them myself for vehicles I've owned. Sure wish they'd been free.

 

[Hall]

Your friend should ask for the OEM springs, shocks/struts, control arms, and so on too !!

 

[dishdude]

To be clear-there is so much dealer hate on this forum that you get threads like this that are total unmitigated, ill-informed, garbage nonsense.

The dealer hate is well deserved.

 

[CKN]

The dealer hate is well deserved.

That's fine. But let's make a post about a situation that we are totally ignorant of. This is the thread to no where.

 

[dubber09]

My friend just bought 2025 Toyota Tacoma. He’s all about being seen. He bought one of the trucks on the lot that the dealer installed a lift kit, and aftermarket wheels and tires. I asked him where is he storing the takeoff wheels and tires. He said the dealer didn’t give him those. I told him the wheels and tires that came on the truck from the factory is yours. Those are part of the truck and is included in the specs. Just another reason to hate dealers. Those dealer spec upgraded vehicles are so overpriced with markups. My local Subaru dealers were throwing on wheels and tires, lift kits, roof top baskets, and charging $6K markup.

If the 'package' was sold as an upgrade then you don't get to see or keep original parts. Yes, upgrades are overpriced but as you said, people like your friend who are all about a show will pay.

 

[dbias]

As a parts person, pre-loading vehicles infuriates me to no end. The cataloging doesn't reflect the new parts, and the second or third owners don't realize the vehicles were modified and think that is how they came stock.

I saw where a vehicle that had been preloaded with upgraded wheels and tires was denied warranty for the transmission due the tires on the vehicle being slightly larger than the spec on the door frame.

 

[Donald]

I am not sure it's clear if this is a dealer issue. If the guy bought the vehicle stock then he owns the stock wheels and tires. And as after the sale upgrade he got upgraded wheels and tires they should have given him the stock wheels and tires back.

But if the original purchase included upgraded wheels and rims then the dealer can do what they want with the stock wheels and tires.

All of this could have been avoided if the guy had just asked the dealer for the stock wheels and rims.

 

[Donald]

I bought my 2015 F250 4WD slightly used. The original owner upgraded the headlights and the wheels. The dealer I bought it from replaced the upgraded headlights with factory before I bought it. But it had the upgraded wheels. The truck had a not so nice handling jolt going over bridge expansion joints.

I complained to the dealer that the aftermarket wheels had a different offset than the stock wheels making the handling jolt over bridge expansion joints worse and the truck more dangerous.

The dealer located some stock rims and changed them at no cost.

I don't need upgrades to "be seen". It's mostly stock except for a BackRack that was on it when I bought it.

 

[oil pan 4]

They're not steeling them. They're just forgetting to give them back to the customer. Is simple misunderstanding.