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£75 a corner plus vat fitted for 245/70/R16' Bridgestone Dueller HT's on my 4x4 pick up. Got over 40k out of the last set and all 4 corners wear at the same rate. Mate's in the trade though.
52 reg fiesta 2 x brand new budget Mohawk tyres £72 with tracking.
i drive like an old man so go for cheap everytime, i guess if i drove like a **** in the wet i'd be dead with them fitted.
if i had a nice flash shit off a shovel car i'd fit a premium brand mind or if i was a rep and did loads of miles.
Around £75 a corner for Yokohama A021R on my Westfield, normally use around 1.5 sets a year doing 5000 miles. Something cheap for the tin top.
98 Mondeo.
£40 for a tyre, fitted and included wheel balance, tracking checked etc.
Cheaper than a Nobby Nic!
£20 a tyre part worn from local mot garage, pirelli, michelin etc. saab 9000 cse.
£120 for 4 toyo proxes t1's for my civic 195 50 15
I go for grip and a quiet drive.
Chucked 2 budget ditch finders on to get it through mot when i bought it. Changed all of them 2 weeks later to the toyos as it was just trying to kill me.
Gone back to Avon ZV5, pick them up for around £55ea. when on offer. Not the greatest wear but grip when wet, on muck and all the way down to the canvas. Had some Falken ZE912, fine, but just lacking a bit of grip after the Avons. Rears wearing well, but will probably need replacing prematurely after rear wheel bearing failure rubbing the shoulder down.
Something decent, asymettrical and not paying over the odds for a name.
Mostly abused, diesel mondeo estate, showing up somewhat more sporty things down country lanes and across the firing ranges.
Land Rover Freelander 2, £155 each for Goodyear Wranglers AT. First set lasted 35k miles! Really good in mud & snow, even with 2mm tread left.
Octavia - Gone for economy with grip for the summer - 4 Pirelli P7 cinturato's at £340 for 4.
In the winter grip all the way with Conti Winter Contacts, again about £350.
My view is they are the only things that are physically attached to the road so why be cheap
Mine = 535i uses Avon ZV5 and gets 14k for £110 a corner fitted
Wife = Freelander uses Michelin's and gets 45k for £160 a corner fitted
[i]£20 a tyre part worn from local mot garage, pirelli, michelin etc. saab 9000 cse.[/i]
I wouldn't put someone elses part-worn on my MTB...
I try and buy the best tyre for wet weather grip and braking, as that is where a rubbish tyre will really let you down.
Currently liking Uniroyal Rainsport 2's, around £70 a corner fitted for 225/55/16's.
Toyota Verso 2.2 D4D.
I can vouch after a quick spin tonight that the avon zv5's are good but best waiting till they're warm for definate!! 😕
205/55s on a 17in wheel, Pirelli P6000s about £120 a corner. Saab 9-3 1.9TiD sportwagon.
I replaced the front pair about a year ago, so that would be about 15k miles ago, still going strong.
rear pair haven't been changed as far as I remember since I bought the car 30k miles ago
I have a Kia Sedona people carrier and tend to use conti winter contacts all the time as they give me amazing grip (who needs a 4x4?) and don't wear too quickly in the warm weather either!
price sadly...
18" RFT costing me about £250 per corner! 🙁
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Had to replace one on our 5 Series last week - £521. Dunlop Maxx GT Sport in a bizarrely lowest of the low profile runflat made from rubber from a single tree deep the rain forests of Borneo or something.Jaw hit floor when the missus told me how much they charged...
I now feel so much better!
330d Tourer, 17" Conti Sport contacts. I think they're about £200ish a pair. It came with budget tyres on the rears when I bought it... drifted like you wouldn't believe, swapped them for some contis and the grip is way better.
Am I the only person who when asked "what tyres would you like?" replied with "well, I like contis on my bike so lets just go with that"?
Currently running Goodyear NCT5's on my 206. Perfectly happy with them.
Previously had Uniroyal rainmasters which were (no surprise) very good in the wet.
However, in between those i had a full set of Yokohama 510's.
They were without doubt, the worst wet weather tyres i have ever owned.
In fact, not even wet weather, but the slightest hint of moisture and they would break away without warning. Utterly terrible tyres.
Made the big mistake of only replacing the front set with the Goodyears and got the back end snapping out on me at a very sedate pace. Got another pair of Goodyears for the rear the very next weekend.
Never again will i trust Yokos. (even though i know their motorsport related tyres are good).
£75-£90 a corner
Usually Toyo Proxes T1-R(205/45/16)
Because I like to have a decent tyre that has plenty of grip and I don't do more than 5-6000 miles a year so a pair on the front lasts about 2 years.
Oh, they look cool too with their tread pattern 😉
£65 a corner for Kumho Soluses of some sort, on a rattly diesel Focus. Though after a few scary incidents I think I've found the edge of the traction, next time I might put something a bit stickier on the front. But they've been good, decent wet and mud traction, worked in the snow, seem to last too. One of them's got about a million rim weights on it so I guess either my wheel is way out of balance or the tyre is.
(PS always makes me smile when people say "Toyo Proxes", most Toyos are branded up Proxes now so it's almost the same as just saying "Toyo").
I always shop for wet grip at a reasonable price.
306: Rainsport IIs, about £40 quid a corner. Easy to pothole damage though. Last about 15K miles up front, 30 at the back.
Celica GT4: Federal SS595s, about £75 a corner, last about 10-12K up front, 15 at the rear (tis 4wd). Tried some continentals at £120 quid a corner but they had shockingly bad grip and wore out faster too, not sure how!
Never met a tyre that gripped AND lasted, or gripped AND gave better economy, and I've tried a few.
bmw 530d
all four tyres wore out at the same time. over £200 per corner for the run flats. swapped to normal tyres and paid £90 each, better handling afterwards.
erm $700 a corner last set and that was quite heavily reduced. Seems too many track days dealt to the last ones a bit quicker than I had anticipated 😆
Last set was Kumho Ecsta KU31s at £289 fitted, via Blackcircles, so about £72 each (17" size). This is for a current-shape Civic.
I tend to google tyre names, work through and go for the cheapest that's had positive reviews. Sometimes look at the Autocar/Autoexpress/Evo tyre tests. If they're quiet then all the better.
It amazes me that some people will shun brands entirely when all of them have both good and bad tyres in their ranges - the mainstream well-known ones make some awful tyres (Pirelli P6000s anyone?) and Avon / Falken / Kumho / Toyo make some great ones.
why would anyone contemplate part worns?
Yeah part-worn is a budgeting step too far for me, kinda like Tesco smart value lemonade, although which one is potentially more lethal I'm not sure.
Run-flats do seem a rip-off to me, never used them but I'd certainly not replace with RF's if my car came with them.
And £500+ for a single tyre?! Are you running on 20's or 21's? I guess if they made a niche size with only a couple of compatible tyres they've got you by the danglies.
300 for the rears and 250 for the fronts
Mercedes CL600
Not much choice for tyres that fit so end up with a branded name from Micheldever Tyres. I think I was quotes around 500 per tyre from the local quikfit
i ran part worns on my first car .... 1.8 diesel fiesta
used to get tires and rims for 15 quid - just had to take them off the car in the scrap yard my self ... just went for the good looking tires on the non crashed cars .... being a ford fiesta there were plenty that had just died or rusted to death !
did 100k in that car !
£1200 a set for 19" bridgestone runflats. They last 25000 miles though and the peace of mind if the wife is out with the baby and has a puncture is totally worth the cost and ride degradation.
06 Fiesta
Toyo Proxe T1R 205/45/16 $225Au each.
$10 cheaper than the standard 195 🙄 Awesome grip & cheaper than the Continentals it came on.
1200 a set for 19" bridgestone runflats
😯
My tires cost a third that, will last twice as long and Mrs Grips knows how to change a wheel...
My tires cost a third that, will last twice as long and Mrs Grips knows how to change a wheel...
So your car is shit and you're quite happy for your wife to change a tyre herself. It would be boring if we were all the same I guess.
I buy for fuel economy/low rolling resistance every time. Well worth it. Grip is irellevant to me on normal roads. Using Michlin Energy Savers. ££ but worth it.
I'm always rather surprised that MTB riders who have first hand painful experience of high tyre drag from the stuff we normally use, have any doubts at all when it comes to treating their vehicle to the lowest resistance tyres.
If you were on a road bike you'd want it. No..?
The BMW 330ci - £200 for rear and about £120 for the front (each)
The Z4MC £320 per rear and about £150-180 per front,
The 306 HDI....well according to the invoice that came with the car...£55+vat for all 4!
So your car is shit
What's that got to do with the price of its tyres? And why on earth would I not want my wife to change a tyre?
Why do you hate your wife?
Eh?
loco - what an odd person you appear to be. Why would your wife not be able to change a tyre? Why would it be such a problem? Are you one of those people who calls out the RAC to change a tyre because they don't want to get dirty or raise their heart rate by 5bpm?
I'm always rather surprised that MTB riders who have first hand painful experience of high tyre drag from the stuff we normally use, have any doubts at all when it comes to treating their vehicle to the lowest resistance tyres.If you were on a road bike you'd want it. No..?
As someone who's a mountain biker and a road rider at times I am more than aware of rolling resistance. I'm also even more aware of grip and the dire consequences when 1500kg of metal hits people, things, leaves its nice smooth track and stops abruptly. Also, as a biker I know just how many people out there have zero speed judgement and zero road skills. And I do everything I can to avoid the problems caused - I can't even begin to grasp the mindset that would tradeoff ultimate grip for 1mpg more from rolling resistance.
Also as a biker, I know the advantages of scilica tyre compounds 🙂
Low rolling resistance tyres don't necessarily mean less grip (they are not simply harder) and I'm getting at least 3mpg improvement on the Nokians.
Low rolling resistance tyres don't necessarily mean less grip (they are not simply harder) and I'm getting at least 3mpg improvement on the Nokians.
I've tried a few, including the big make ones and can conclude that unless it's changed in the last 2 years (silica tyres have been on the market for over a decade), yes it does mean sod all grip in my experience. 3mpg difference makes about £50 a year difference to me, I will happily sacrifice that to stop when some moron pulls out.
I do need some new tyres on the front of the estate car due to pothole damage, if you can point me to a set you consider grip really well and improve economy I'll gladly try them.
unless it's changed in the last 2 years
It has. The original Michelins were E3A, then they became Energy then they brought out a new Energy fairly recently to address the wet braking issues that people'd reported. You may've seen an ad campaign.
I never feel anything other than glued to the road on either the Michelin Energies on the Prius or the Nokian WR G2s on the Passat. Maybe I'm just undeducated, I dunno. Maybe less than some sporty tyres, but sod all? I honestly don't know what you mean. I seem to be able to stop very fast and corner as fast as I'd ever want to.
What did you experience on these tyres?
I experienced understeer at normal driving speeds and zero wet braking or acceleration grip when I had them. The same can be said about other performance tyres I've tried though, not just energy ones so I'm not just having a go at them specifically. And different tyres behave differently with different tyre sizes, which complicates it.
You can push all tyres well beyond their limits, it's how they deal with that that matters. Rainsports grip almost as well in teh wet as the dry and when they do slip it's predictable and progressive. The energy tyres I've used have gripped to a point (lower) then just snapped and let go, which is lethal. (They were michelins I tried)
Hmm.. interesting. Not had any understeer, not done many emergency stops but certainly never had the traction control light flashing.
The worst tyre experience I've had was the Bridgestone Turanzas that came on the Prius. Ok so they were worn, but it was very easy to get the traction control on pulling out of junctions on them and they let me down when I had to do a wet emergency stop. At least I think they did, it was one of those over-in-a-flash things when someone pulled out in front of me at about 20mph. Was too busy concentrating on avoiding them to assess how quickly we were really stopping, but it certainly did not feel fast enough.
Re money saving, I think you save much more with the longevity than with the fuel.
Right, Nokian V are now on the car. And I am quite pleased with them. At first I wasn't because there was a lot of rumble from the carcass on rough roads, but that seems to have gone away somehow and they are now astonishingly quiet with almost no high frequency noise. MPG seems high but inconclusive so far, and the handling is ace. Very well planted indeed, perhaps due to the XL load rating meaning stiffer sidewalls, not sure.
Nokian are ace for car tyres as well as bike tyres 🙂
Just paid £140 for one [url= http://www.tyrereviews.co.uk/Tyre/Continental/Sport-Contact-3.htm ]Conti Sport Contact 3[/url] (205/50 R17 93W) - ouch!
I think I prefer punctures on the bike!