Tyres

mikey72

You can have Wanli for less than £55 if you want,
http://www.tyre-shopper.co.uk/ts/search/SizeSearch.aspx

bigjl

vikingaero wrote: »

I had the same situation as David. Needed 2 new tyres for the car I gave my Mum - 205/55/16's which was fitted with Primacy HP's. I dithered about changing brands, but whatever I bought it had to be a premium brand. I discussed it with the tyre suppliers at Elite and they recommended I stick with the Primacys on the basis of the low wear rate and that putting a new set on would transform the car anyway.

"H" wasn't there today, but the bloke I spoke to has been there a few years, he reckons the Sava isn't the worst of the budgets.

Though Elite never really sold the really bad budget tyres from what I have seen.

I would have rather had Michelin Primacy, they are a nice tyre and suit our Zafiras fairly well at work.

Just too much money at the moment, £85 a Costco and £89 at Elite, a very good price if you ask me, just wish my budget was bigger.

I very nearly got them to put two on the front and get another two next month, but i may be going to Scotland at half term and don't fancy driving in Scotland with 2mm on one axle and brand news on the other.

Plus next month I can look at doing my discs and pads, I have seen buypartsby have them at good prices, but may just use Eurocarparts, the new branch is Harold Hill is doing nigh on Tradev prices for everybody.

Got an airfilter and oil filter for the wifes Clio today for just over £14!!!

And this was top spec Bosch parts.

Whoever I chose i will be going for standard disc with EBC Greenstuff pads.


I don't know if it is the name that puts me off, the only personal experience I have had with Wanli tyres is when our previous tyre supplier put one on the front of a 2 yr old Merc Ambulance, I never had time to do a proper VDI, off going crew said it was all good and had been fitted with a new front right due to a puncture.

Just as we left station it started to rain, and straight away i felt the front left was all over the place, I thought I had picked up another puncture, stopped and checked and the tyre wasn't flat, decided to continue and check it closer at Hospital, there I discovered the Wanli.

We liased with a Duty Officer and demanded the tyre bloke came back out with a proper tyre, the deal with our provider is that we have GoodYears(at that time, now Michelin), or a premium brand in an emergency, nobody could class a Wanli as a premium tyre.

After they came out and swapped it for a GoodYear, and the handling was back to normal.

vikingaero

Our family used to have Honda Accord as a spare car. It was used by up to a dozen different drivers. It needed new tyres so I took it to Kwik Fit for their headline 4 tyres for £80 offer years ago. In the end it was 4 tyres for £120 for that tyre size. The tyres were made by Debica.

Every single driver of the Accord commented about how shocking the new Debica tyres were. About a year or so later Auto Express published a tyre test which included the Debicas. In the dry with the reference tyres at an index of 100 the Debicas came up with about 88 points - not bad - but then the difference between tyres in the dry is rarely more than 5% for decent to mid range brands. The biggest difference was the Debicas in the wet. I can't remember the exact figures but if the premium tyres stopped at around 60m, the Debicas stopped at around 100m!!!!

s_b

i have hankook tyres on my truck they are good tyres and in a market place where tyre prices are changing daily and only upwards (about 17% upwards this last 12 months) i could possibly recommend them if i knew your vehicle
however you will never better the michelins so its your call
treat most budget tyres as just that as its what the tyre wholesalers can buy on the spot market before the container gets shipped

property.advert

I just replaced the exact same size tyres on my Astra with Uniroyal Rainsport 2 on each corner for £280. I was on Michelins previously.

What a difference. Sticks to the road like glue and in the wet you feel far more confident. Loads quieter as well.

Top reviews and it is going to take some tyre to get me off these when the time comes.

s_b

remember all new tyres need running in for the first 50 miles or so and even more important all wheels and nuts/bolts should be double checked for tightness and correct fitting on the spigots

A._Badger

As I've said here before (no, I don't work for them) I've fitted Toyos to both my cars (a Honda Accord and an MX5) for several years now and found they offer an excellent balance between cost and performance. In fact I'd go further and say I've noticed no trade-off in performance against more costly tyres. Camskills currently have Michelins at £72 in my Honda's size, while the Toyos are £44. I very much doubt the Michelins are worth such a considerable premium.

mikey72

Nankang, Wanli, and GT radial, don't come off too badly, compared to a top of the rage continental.
If you look at the numbers, there isn't alot in it, Wanli even out perform the continental in one of the aquaplaning tests.
(I don't think the Linglong and Triangle are value for money though)

http://www.conti-online.com/generator/www/uk/en/continental/automobile/themes/press_services/img/autocar_tyre_test_article_en.pdf

I had a pair of Hero branded tyres on the back of mine over winter, no problems with them.

INT1

Whatever you do, never get Federal tyres!

Terrible in the rain!

jase1

I've never used a *new* budget tyre that has been so bad that I've not felt safe.

The problem with them seems to come when they've worn down, say below 3 or 4mm.

At this point, the what I would term "marginal but acceptable" performance you get from the cheaper tyres becomes "scary and uncontrollable" in the wet.

Kumhos, Hankooks, (some) Federals, going down to the like of Nankangs and Lassas are generally OK. But I'd be getting rid of the really dodgy tyres (Durun and Linglong spring to mind as the worst) fairly early. I don't buy this brand new Wanli being so much worse than worn premium though -- there has to be something else amiss there.