Costco tyres

BikerEd

In case you didn't know, Costco now sell cheaper Continental tyres along side the Michelins, which was traditionally the only brand they stocked. Nice to have the choice.

mikey72

I had stopped using costco, the Michelins have near enough doubled in price over the last two years.

sootytorques

Same here, i noticed the price has crept up hell of alot.

vikingaero

Thanks for the headsup Ed. Good to know that Costco are stocking Contis. Contis produce some of the best all round tyres for most general cars - look at the recent Autocar and Auto Express tests.

I'm not too keen on Costco for tyres though - the faff of having to buy them, wheel them out to the fitting bay, fetching your car, having the fitter sit in your car with dirty overalls and brake dust covered hands, picking your car up with dirt engrained in the mats, door cards and steering wheel. I use Thurrock Coscto so normally I pop over to Elite in Rainham where they have a clean driver to move the cars around and are the same price.

mikey72

When I bought mine, (Derby) I left then the keys, did my shopping, went back, and had the keys back with the car parked ourtside, as clean as I left it.

marlot

mikey72 wrote: »

When I bought mine, (Derby) I left then the keys, did my shopping, went back, and had the keys back with the car parked ourtside, as clean as I left it.

Same at Reading

BOOM_3

BikerEd wrote: »

In case you didn't know, Costco now sell cheaper Continental tyres along side the Michelins, which was traditionally the only brand they stocked. Nice to have the choice.

Your avatar is quality! :cool:

stupid_cupid

just a word of warning to anybody buying tyres I bought two tyres kumho 225/45r 17 from online tyre company event tyres this was in april they cost me £154 six monthes later after doing 2500 miles on the front of my car they are down to the wear indicators after complaining to event they said they would return them to the suppliers but would not replace them even though I has the mot etc to prove with out any doubt they had only done the milage quoted I would have to buy new tyres and then be at the mercy of the suppliers

Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers!

So fix the geometry of your car, don't whinge about the tyres.

bigjl

stupid_cupid wrote: »

just a word of warning to anybody buying tyres I bought two tyres kumho 225/45r 17 from online tyre company event tyres this was in april they cost me £154 six monthes later after doing 2500 miles on the front of my car they are down to the wear indicators after complaining to event they said they would return them to the suppliers but would not replace them even though I has the mot etc to prove with out any doubt they had only done the milage quoted I would have to buy new tyres and then be at the mercy of the suppliers

I have never heard of a set of Kumhos being worn out in 2500 miles, unless they where being abused or the car, as already mentioned had serious alignment or suspension issues.

Or the car has had the mileage clocked back.

JQ.

stupid_cupid wrote: »

just a word of warning to anybody buying tyres I bought two tyres kumho 225/45r 17 from online tyre company event tyres this was in april they cost me £154 six monthes later after doing 2500 miles on the front of my car they are down to the wear indicators after complaining to event they said they would return them to the suppliers but would not replace them even though I has the mot etc to prove with out any doubt they had only done the milage quoted I would have to buy new tyres and then be at the mercy of the suppliers

You need to reduce the number of Trackdays you do.