car tyres - what do you recommend?

mikey72

hareng wrote: »

Not much dearer at all its only £28 for piece of mind.
By your own reckoning £10 fitting Blackfriars and tyretraders fitting is £15.60 each, so only £16.80 dearer.

Also how long like for like, handling, stopping distances and so on etc do they rate? Thought so.......cheap for a reason.

I think I can honestly say I have no idea what your post is on about.

red_eye

Apprantly new regs coming out making tyres safer, quiter and ecthey will also have rating stickers on like fridges

grizzly1911

Main problem, with any tyre, is the nut behind the wheel.....

grizzly1911

red_eye wrote: »

Apprantly new regs coming out making tyres safer, quiter and ecthey will also have rating stickers on like fridges

Any idea when?

Easier to rate a fridge than for something that gets used in 100s of different ways by 100s of different users on 100s of cars in varying states of repair.

No doubt the advertising will read like golf balls where the new ones always fly further with more feel and control.

red_eye

grizzly1911 wrote: »

Any idea when?

Easier to rate a fridge than for something that gets used in 100s of different ways by 100s of different users on 100s of cars in varying states of repair.

No doubt the advertising will read like golf balls where the new ones always fly further with more feel and control.

nov this year http://www.sbcommercials.co.uk/news/jan12/label.php fridges get used is 100 of different ways in various environments and repair same as tvs.
one thing missing is dry grip.

buscape

If you meant £60 per tyre, you can't go wrong with[URL="http://www.camskill.co.uk/m53b0s288p1664/TOYO_TYRES_CAR_TOYO_T1R_PROXES_TOYO_T1_R_-_195_55R15_85V_TL_] Toyo T1-R[/URL] tyres for £99.90 for the pair plus postage. Excellent tyres.

Biketrials08

I always like to put perspective on the tyre question, I know people who will spend any amount on shoes and trainers, nicely past the 3 figure point, but who whinge about spending the same on tyres. I respond by asking them quite how fast and far are they planning on running, 70mph, 15-20k miles? Your car tyre does a lot of work for quite sometime when compared to other consumables in your life and really aren't that bad of value when you think about it. So put the fancy footware back on the shelf and put some some better tyres on your car;-) Toyo's are nice, I always go with Michellin because I shop in Costco.

mikey72

Biketrials08 wrote: »

I always like to put perspective on the tyre question, I know people who will spend any amount on shoes and trainers, nicely past the 3 figure point, but who whinge about spending the same on tyres. I respond by asking them quite how fast and far are they planning on running, 70mph, 15-20k miles? Your car tyre does a lot of work for quite sometime when compared to other consumables in your life and really aren't that bad of value when you think about it. So put the fancy footware back on the shelf and put some some better tyres on your car;-) Toyo's are nice, I always go with Michellin because I shop in Costco.

Just paying for the name is as pointless on tyres as it is on trainers. Same principle, tyre snobbery is as bad as trainer snobbery. I always buy comfortable trainers, regardless of the name. Last pair came from Aldi, current pair are Reeboks. Same with tyres. So long as they're decent, I'll buy them if the price is right. I'll buy Michelin Energy Savers from Costco, but equally, I've found chinese Heros are good as well.

Ultrasonic

red_eye wrote: »

nov this year http://www.sbcommercials.co.uk/news/jan12/label.php

That link talks about a difference of 4.5% in fuel efficiency between the different rolling resistance categories, which is huge. Much larger than the sort of fuel efficiency savings I've read about elsewhere. I'm tempted to think that either that statement is wrong (maybe mixing up diffferences in rolling resistance with fuel economy improvements), or the vaste majority of tyres are going to end up in the same category, rendering the scale pretty pointless .

Ultrasonic

A quick search yielded the following two links, which suggest a fuel economy saving of up to 7.5% between categories A and G on the fuel efficiency scale (so more like 1% per step than 4.5%, assuming the scale is linear):

http://www.conti-online.com/generator/www/de/en/continental/automobile/themes/tirelabel/download/european_tyre_labelling_regulation_en.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tire_label

Also, as I suspected they may have, the above Mercedes link appears to have interpretted the noise level symbol backwards: more black bars is noisier not quieter.