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car tyres - what do you recommend?

spaceboy
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What car tyres do you recommend? Handling/road feedback is important.
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  • motorguy
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    spaceboy wrote: »
    What car tyres do you recommend? Handling/road feedback is important.

    Whats the car, and whats your budget?
  • spaceboy
    spaceboy Posts: 1,933 Forumite
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    Peugeot 306

    195/55R15 tyres

    Budget up to £60
  • red_eye
    red_eye Posts: 1,211 Forumite
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    anything but buget
  • scotsbob
    scotsbob Posts: 4,632 Forumite
    At £60 you are looking at budget tyres. If you can stretch your budget you can get Toyo Proxes @ £69 fully fitted. Look on the Blackcircles web site.
  • red_eye
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    ^^^ what he said only £9 more and you dont get lampost and trees that jump out infront of you
  • property.advert
    property.advert Posts: 4,086 Forumite
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    red_eye wrote: »
    ^^^ what he said only £9 more and you dont get lampost and trees that jump out infront of you

    If they only hit lampposts and trees I may not care so much but they don't and people who would rather spend money on task aways and down the pub as opposed to buying good quality rubber for their cars are just as bad as those who drive without proper brakes or MOTs.

    Buying rubber for the car shouldn't be about getting away with as little as possible.
  • andygb
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    I would suggest Barum Bravuris 2 (made by Continental), a very good tyre with excellent wet weather grip and long life

    http://www.tyre-shopper.co.uk/ts/search/tyredetails.aspx?code=1955515BA2H

    There are plenty of cheap, budget, unknown tyres out there, but there are also genuine bargains to be had.
  • reeac
    reeac Posts: 1,430 Forumite
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    spaceboy wrote: »
    What car tyres do you recommend? Handling/road feedback is important.

    My neighbour knows a bit about cars and is also a tightwad but he's recently changed from cheapo tyres [I don't know what make] to Pirelli P7s for his Avensis estate.
  • mikey72
    mikey72 Posts: 14,680 Forumite
    Hero are a very good budget tyre, you can get two deliverd for £90 http://www.allnewtyres.co.uk/view_Basket.asp then with a tenner each fitted locally, comes in under budget at about £55 each. I've a pair on each of my cars, and they are excellent.
  • rodenal
    rodenal Posts: 831 Forumite
    Again if you can push the budget a bit you'll get a set of Kumho KU31's which are a decent enough tyre, fitted for £66 each.

    Those or proxes are about the best I can find close to your budget - I personally wouldn't put any budget tyre on so would spend the little bit more for a mid range like these at a minimum but it's your call really.
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