Advice on car tyres

fivetide

For me it is the best at a budget. Luckily the Avensis has a pretty common tyre size so I got two Rainsport from Camskill at £50 each and had them on the car fitted and balanced for a tenner each, £120 all in and only a couple of quid more than the budget stuff.


The trick is knowing a garage that will put them on the rim. All the big chains wanted over £200 for exactly the same thing.

getmore4less

rkc86 wrote: »

Hello

Kind regards for all your replies. It's only a 2009 Citreon C4 so nothing fancy. I believe I have not changed a single tyre since bought from new but they do need changing to pass my next MOT I reckon.

Thanks

Do they need to be W rated?

What's on currently how many miles have they done?

Might be worth thinking about going to 16" wheels if price is n issue

rkc86

Morning

My car was bought from new so I've done 37K for 5 years on the same tyres. I don't think going down 16" is an option for me. Is the W rated the load? That's what I've got when I've entered my car reg on the national tyres search engine.

I only drive now and then. Sometimes occasionally on the M6 motorway for 2 hours once every 3-4 weeks.

My vehicle is only a hatchback so nothing fancy so I don't want to spend hundreds per tyre although I do want to drive safe some reasonable priced tyres.

Thanks

AdrianC

rkc86 wrote: »

My car was bought from new so I've done 37K for 5 years on the same tyres.

So even buying the most expensive tyres is going to work out cheap. Take the £160 each Yokohamas. Four of those, £640 - is just over 1.7 pence per mile or 35p per day. Compare that to all the other costs of owning and running a car...

Is the W rated the load?

The speed rating. The load is the 93.
You don't want to go below the manufacturer's rating on either.

alleycat`

Matador hectorra 2's are pretty reasonable on price (just above budget) and are a fairly solid tyre.

Not sure i'd say the same for the rest of the range but that one rates out pretty well.

rkc86

Hello again

How about these two?

http://www.oponeo.co.uk/tyre-details/ovation-vi-388-205-50-r17-93-w#60186125

http://www.oponeo.co.uk/tyre-details/accelera-beta-205-50-r17-93-w-xl#59376812

Thanks again

Iceweasel

rkc86 wrote: »

Hello again

How about these two?

http://www.oponeo.co.uk/tyre-details/ovation-vi-388-205-50-r17-93-w#60186125

http://www.oponeo.co.uk/tyre-details/accelera-beta-205-50-r17-93-w-xl#59376812

Thanks again

Oh dear - you have now gone even further down-market.

But it's your car - your safety.

I just hope I don't meet up with you on a roundabout in the rain.

What brand of tyres are on the car right now - the ones that were on it from new?

How much would they cost?

Does that tell you something.

AdrianC

Iceweasel wrote: »

What brand of tyres are on the car right now - the ones that were on it from new?

It's a Citroen. It would have left the showroom wearing Michelins.

fivetide

Iceweasel wrote: »

Oh dear - you have now gone even further down-market.

But it's your car - your safety.

I just hope I don't meet up with you on a roundabout in the rain.

What brand of tyres are on the car right now - the ones that were on it from new?

How much would they cost?

Does that tell you something.

With these new choices it might be cheaper to forgo brakes and fit a 'pedestrian strainer' to the car.

As said OP, the tyres are all that is holding you to the road. Up to you how safe you want to feel.

alleycat`

rkc86 wrote: »

Hello again

How about these two?

http://www.oponeo.co.uk/tyre-details/ovation-vi-388-205-50-r17-93-w#60186125

http://www.oponeo.co.uk/tyre-details/accelera-beta-205-50-r17-93-w-xl#59376812

Thanks again

Appreciate that you have a budget but i don't think you are going to get anyone, even on an MSE site, to suggest scraping the bottom of the barrel when it comes to the small contact patch that keeps your car in touch with the road.

It's not a place i'd want to be trying to save an additional £15 a corner unless i really really had to.