Tyres-Mix Brand?

philng

Need a new tyre for wife Mini. Current Tyres are Bridgestone Turanza-Is there any problem replacing one fron tyre with a different brand? If so which brands are recommended?
Have seen a Goodyear Auto Express recommended tyre at £86.99 fully fitted-What are the significance of the efficiency rating & wet stop rating? Does it matter if the 2 front tyres are different as the other tyre is fine.

Iceweasel

Are these run-flat tyres?

If so you can't mix them with any 'normal' non-runflat tyres as the construction is different (stiffer side-walls etc) and hence the handling will be uneven/ possibly unsafe.

Is the Goodyear spec exactly the same as the Bridgestone.

I sounds like you are talking about a front tyre.

All the advice is to fit new tyres to the rear - I would suggest that perhaps the best thing to do would be fit a similar tyre and move both front wheels to the rear and so have the matched pair from the rear fitted on the front.

If you want to change away from run-flats you have to change all four.

force_ten

i would say first thing to do is to check what ice said

on the bridgestones it should have RFT on the sidewall

if they are not run-flats then do not mix tyre brands on the same axle change a pair, and keep the good tyre as a spare cover in case you have a problem with the two bridgestones that you have left

Apples2

Best thing I ever did to my car was to dump Run Flats in favour of traditional tyres.

Hit a small pothole and I am going back the way I came!

I now feel a satisfying thud and the car continues in a straight line.

Iceweasel

Apples2 wrote: »

Best thing I ever did to my car was to dump Run Flats in favour of traditional tyres.

Hit a small pothole and I am going back the way I came!

I now feel a satisfying thud and the car continues in a straight line.

There are run-flats and there are run-flats - they are not all the same just like 'ordinary old-style normal tyres - you can't compare say a Michelin with a Ying-tang- ho-chi-min Special from the land of chop-sticks.

Which brand did you not like?

But price does not always come into it.

I can't stand the Bridgestone Potenzas - despite their high price and premium brand pretensions - I changed them for ContoSportContact 2 - still runflats - felt like a different car.

The latest generation of run-flats are reported to be only 3% stiffer than other tyres.

I like the benefits of run-flats - no need to stop on a Motorway or on a rainy, windy, Winter's night, or in a 'bad area'.

No way is Mrs Iceweasel going to change a wheel on her own anyway - with the weight they are.

bigjl

I don't mix brands or even different tyres from the same brand on the same axle.

Happy to have matched sets on each axle if budget is tight.

But in the OPs position i would either fit a new matching tyre if the other is fairly new, say with 6mm remaining.

Or if the other tyre is in the last half of its life i would change the pair.

But it is not unusual to see cars with several different ages and makes of tyre.

I bought a Volvo V50 at auction that was ex lease.

It only ever had tyres fitted at the same branch of Kwik Fit and it had Good Years on the front, both the same but one was almost new and one had around 4mm. On the rear was a Pirelli and i am sure a Michelin.

So it seems obvious that Kwik Fit are happy to mix and match on cars being maintained on a lease.