Ok well, here's an actual example of something similar. A few years ago I'd arranged to meet a colleague at a motorway services to hand over a package he urgently needed. He was driving a new-ish company car and as he pulled into a space facing me in the car park I couldn't help noticing that the inside edges of his front tyres were white. on closer inspection they were actually down to the canvas despite the outside areas of both tyres still having plenty of visible tread. ( presumably a tracking issue )
He'd just come up the M6 to meet me and was about to head back south on a 160 mile motorway trip back to London.
He had no idea his tyres were so badly worn and when I mentioned it to him he was pretty shocked and went straight to a tyre fitters to have them changed.
He is absolutely not a "car person" and admitted that he never checked such things relying on being told when his cars were in for sevices if anything required attention.
Those of us who take an interest in our cars may find this astonishing but its not an uncommon scenario.
Should I have not mentioned it for fear of "interfering" or did I do him a favour?
I think the answer is clear enough in my mind.
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