Used car tyres in Edinburgh typically sell for £30 to £300 (about $40 to $405). Tyres are safety-critical and legally regulated, so tread depth and age are the only things that really matter.
Selling car tyres in Edinburgh
Edinburgh is a university and finance city whose population swells enormously every August for the festival, and that single month does more to move second-hand goods here than any other part of the year. Outside it, the Old and New Town tenement stock means most people live in flats and buy furniture to fit them.
August brings a large temporary population that arrives with things and leaves without them, and September brings the students. Between them the autumn is reliably the best time to buy here and a slower time to sell.
The Old Town is steep, cobbled and awkward for vehicles, with restricted access on several streets, so anything heavy needs a conversation about where a van can actually stop. Trams and buses cover the rest of the city and handle small handovers fine.
Edinburgh, in Scotland, has around 530,000 people, which means a steady local market where the usual things move reliably and the unusual ones are worth listing with a wider radius in mind. Glasgow, Aberdeen and Dundee are close enough that a buyer there may well make the trip for the right thing.
Handing it over in Edinburgh
Most private sales settle by bank transfer or cash on collection. Faster Payments clear in seconds, which makes a transfer as safe as cash for the seller — wait for it to land before the item leaves your hands.
What car tyres are worth
What lifts the price
- Tread depth well above the legal minimum
- Matching sets of four in the same size
What pulls it down
- Tread near or below the legal minimum
- Tyres more than several years old, whatever the tread
Working out what yours is worth
- Measure the tread depth and state it in millimetres
- Photograph the sidewall including size and date
Getting it ready
- Read the four-digit date code on the sidewall. Tyres age out regardless of tread, and buyers check this.
- Inspect both sidewalls for bulges, cuts, cracking and any previous repair. Any of these means the tyre should be scrapped rather than sold.
Photograph
- The tyre whole, showing the tread pattern across the full width
- The sidewall markings, including size, load and speed rating and the date code
Put in the description
- Full size marking, plus load index and speed rating
- The four-digit date code from the sidewall
Heavy and awkward but not fragile. Collection is normal. If a tyre has less than around 3mm, sidewall damage or is more than a few years old, take it to a tyre centre for recycling rather than listing it.
Listing is free and there is no selling fee, so the whole amount the buyer pays stays with you. You and the buyer agree the handover between yourselves.
Same region (Scotland)
Common questions
Where can I sell car tyres in Edinburgh?
Put it on WishThrift free and deal with the buyer direct. The Old Town is steep, cobbled and awkward for vehicles, with restricted access on several streets, so anything heavy needs a conversation about where a van can actually stop. Trams and buses cover the rest of the city and handle small handovers fine.
How much tread is left?
Give the measured figure in millimetres, not a description. The legal minimum across most of Europe is 1.6mm, and most buyers want 5mm or more to be worth fitting.
How much are car tyres worth in Edinburgh?
Most used car tyres change hands for £30 to £300 (about $40 to $405). Condition and completeness move that figure more than anything else.
More: selling car tyres across the United Kingdom, what car tyres are worth, everything second hand in Edinburgh, or Vehicles in Edinburgh.
Guide range converted from sterling at the 2 August 2026 rate, not a quote — sellers set their own price.