Car Tyres - which ones to get...??

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I've got budget tyres on the front and Kumho on the rear. So what if it takes longer to stop. Just don't tail gate the car in front.

property.advert

Quite possibly the ar5ehole who drove into me a while back was on cheapo tyres and didn't give a toss either.

Do yourself a favour. Either retire from motoring or spend a little extra on decent tyres.

£75 a corner, £300 in total, good for 24k miles at 6k a year means it costs you £75 a year or £1.50 a week. Go cheapo and save yourself 50p a week.

Is it really worth it ? be honest ?

rev_henry

Its only a little runaround; nothing high performance. I'd just stick cheap ones on it.

Lum

Hammyman wrote: »

And you'll stand more of a chance of going in a straight line at a corner in the wet....

Tell me about it.

Just picked up a Seat Exeo hire car from Enterprise rent-a-car, the fronts are a pair of Autogrip 101s and the rears are one Pirelli and one Arrowspeed.

In the middle of Cardiff, doing under 20mph on a very slightly damp (by which I mean it had been raining the night before) 30mph road with a van driver right up my !!!!. Road bends 45 degrees to the left, I turn and the car carries on in a straight line for a few meters until I'd slowed down enough to allow the awful tyres to grip.

Not impressed. Even the energy saving Michelins on my Mondeo that I complain about so often handle that same corner fine in worse conditions at higher speed.

I expected them to be bad, this corner was to be my first test to find out just how bad, hence why I was going much slower and more cautiously than I normally would. It seems I still managed to overestimate them.

Had I been out on the lanes trying this, the term "ditchfinder" would have been literal.

fatbelly

mikey72 wrote: »

Kumho, a korean tyre company with a lot of factories in china. You ever used them?

Yeah, got them fitted to a Polo. Really good price and really good tyre. Wear seems good too.

mikey72

Could have been producing suspect tyres for over two years.

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property.advert wrote: »

Quite possibly the ar5ehole who drove into me a while back was on cheapo tyres and didn't give a toss either.

Do yourself a favour. Either retire from motoring or spend a little extra on decent tyres.

£75 a corner, £300 in total, good for 24k miles at 6k a year means it costs you £75 a year or £1.50 a week. Go cheapo and save yourself 50p a week.

Is it really worth it ? be honest ?

You can have the best tyres money can buy but if you're a $hitty driver in the first place then they still may not do much good.

Also, you have to take into account the possibility of punctures if one drives a lot. I do 50k a year in my job now, I used to drive 100k a year as a courier.

Only once have I bought premium tyres, at £100 a pop, and two punctured within a month (although I had driven 3k in them by then).

They couldn't be repaired due to where the damage was.

I could have had two budgets for the price of one premium.

So, I have almost always used budgets in 25 years and never had a problem, never been let down and I must have covered about a million miles.

As an aside, touch wood, I've never been in an accident or received any speeding points.

So yes, budgets are well worth it and I've probably saved thousands of £.

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Deleted_User wrote: »

I've got budget tyres on the front and Kumho on the rear. So what if it takes longer to stop. Just don't tail gate the car in front.

Absolutely agree. A good driver knows how to handle their vehicle.

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Hammyman wrote: »

And you'll stand more of a chance of going in a straight line at a corner in the wet....

I must have very good budgets then because I've not experienced straigtening at corners in the wet and I drive a thousand miles a week.

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Lum wrote: »

Tell me about it.

Just picked up a Seat Exeo hire car from Enterprise rent-a-car, the fronts are a pair of Autogrip 101s and the rears are one Pirelli and one Arrowspeed.
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I'd wager the real reason was you were driving an unfamiliar car, you had only just picked it up.

The difference in clutch control can vary from car to car dramatically.