Having your winter tires in a tire hotel over the summer is becoming more and more popular, and it’s easy to understand why.
Especially for those who do not change the wheels themselves, it is practical not to have to load the winter tires into the car to drive them to a repair shop.
However, there is an unexpected risk with storing your tires with a company.
Däckhotel was evicted by the Kronofogden
That there are risks in using tire hotels became clear to the customers of a workshop in Vagnhärad, after the company was evicted from its premises by the Crown Enforcement Agency.
At the time of the eviction, there were around 200 sets of tires in the company’s tire hotel.
In order for customers to be able to pick up their tires, a pick-up time was arranged on November 12 between 3:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m.
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Car owners could not collect their winter tires
However, a time window of just two hours turned out to be too short for everyone to collect their tires, but around half of the 800 tires at the tire hotel remained, reports Södermanland News.
After queuing to get to the workshop, many customers had to return home with unfinished business.
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– It was quick and maybe not wrong, but definitely not right, says Crown Inspector Andreas Axelsson to Södermanland’s News.
Andreas Axelsson has a new preliminary date when car owners will be able to pick up their tires. However, the risk is that they will not have time to get their tires before the requirement for winter tires comes into effect on December 1.
This is how you can protect yourself
According to We Car Owners can you as a car owner find yourself in a difficult position if something were to happen to the company that runs the tire hotel you use.
Car owners are therefore advised to demand a delivery receipt with tire make, dimension and tread depth.
Without such, according to the newspaper’s expert, it can be largely impossible to get compensation in the event of, for example, a fire or a theft.
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